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Explains the origin of the firm by focusing on entrepreneurship
Discusses why entrepreneurs monitor workers rather than workers monitoring entrepreneurs
Combines the contractual approach with the entrepreneurial approach to establish an entrepreneurial/contractual theory of the firm
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Book Title: The Origin of the Capitalist Firm
Book Subtitle: An Entrepreneurial/Contractual Theory of the Firm
Authors: Weiying Zhang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0221-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Truth and Wisdom Press and Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0220-5Published: 23 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9109-4Published: 12 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0221-2Published: 13 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 196
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Industrial Organization