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Daniel Spulber (2009) The Theory of the Firm: Microeconomics with Endogenous Entrepreneurs, Firms, Markets, and Organizations.  Cambridge University Press

 

Coase, R. 1937. The nature of the firm. Economica, 4: 386-405.

 

Conner, K. 1991. A historical comparison of resource-based theory and five schools of thought within industrial organization economics: Do we have a new theory of the firm? Journal of Management, 17: 121-154.

 

 

N.Foss (2000) The Theory of the Firm: an Introduction to Themes and

Contributions, In: Nicolai J. Foss, The Theory of the Firm: Critical

Perspectives in Economic Organization, London: Routledge

 

Robert Gibbons (2005)  Four Formal(izable) Theories of the Firm? JEBO

 

 

Mahoney, Joseph T. (2005),

Economic Foundations of Strategy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

 

Foss, Nicolai J., and Peter G. Klein, "The Theory of the Firm and Its Critics: A Stocktaking and Assessment," in Eric Brousseau and Jean-Michel Glachant, eds., New Institutional Economics: A Guidebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 419-36.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=695484

 

Foss, Nicolai J., and Peter G. Klein, "The Emergence of the Modern Theory of the Firm," SMG Working Paper No. 1/2006, January 2006.

http://ssrn.com/abstract=982094

 

The PowerPoint slides and other materials here may be useful as well:

http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/forskeruddannelser/alle_ph_d_kurser/ph_d_kurser_paa_cbs/phd_courses_2009_spring/the_theory_of_the_firm_and_its_applications_in_management_research_i_june_2009

 

Santos and Eisenhardt (2005) have an excellent article in Org Science that compares the efficiency, competence, power, and identity theories of the firm

 

Theories of the Firm  Third Edition Demetri Kantarelis

 

Makadok, R., & Coff, R. 2009. Both Market and Hierarchy: An Incentive-Systems Theory of Hybrid Governance Forms. Academy of Management Review, 34(2): 297-319.