Frases de Edith Penrose

Edith Elura Tilton Penrose foi uma economista teórica estadunidense que se destacou por suas contribuições à Teoria da firma e seu crescimento. Penrose incorporou em sua análise elementos externos aos de mercado na busca da compreensão dos fatores determinantes para o crescimento de uma firma. Wikipedia

✵ 15. Novembro 1914 – 11. Outubro 1996

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Edith Penrose: Frases em inglês

“A firm is essentially a pool of resources the utilization of which is organized in an administrative framework.”

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Edith Penrose

p 149
The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, 1959

“Management tries to make the best use of the resources available.”

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Edith Penrose

Fonte: The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, 1959, p. 5

“A firm is more than an administrative unit; it is also a collection of productive resources the disposal of which between uses and over time is determined by administrative decision.”

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Edith Penrose

Fonte: The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, 1959, p. 24

“Difficulties arise when an attempt is made to acclimatize the theory to an alien environment and, in particular, to adapt the analysis of the expansion of the innovating multi-product, ‘flesh and blood’ organisations that businessmen call firms.”

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Edith Penrose

Fonte: The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, 1959, p. 13

“If profits are a condition of successful growth, but profits are sought primarily for the sake of the firm, that is, to reinvest in the firm rather than to reimburse owners for the use of their capital or their 'risk bearing,' then, from the point of view of investment policy, growth and profits become equivalent as the criteria for the selection of investment programmes.”

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Edith Penrose

Fonte: The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, 1959, p. 30

“Internal inducements to expansion arise largely from the existence of a pool of unused productive services, resources and special knowledge, all of which will always be found within any firm.”

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Edith Penrose

Fonte: The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, 1959, p. 66

“There is no need to deny that other 'objectives' are often important—power, prestige, public approval, or the mere love of the game— it need only be recognized that the attainment of these ends more often than not is associated directly with the ability to make profits.”

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Edith Penrose

Fonte: The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, 1959, p. 30