Management theories developed in the United States and Europe have dominated
management and organizational studies. As a result, scholars often overlook subtle cultural …

Firms are a ubiquitous feature of the economic landscape, with much of the activity
undertaken within an economy taking place within their boundaries. Given the size of the …

Purpose This paper aims to address the main arguments put forward in Grietjie Verhoef's
article and contribute to a wider debate among management scholars on the role of …

The theory of the firm did not exist, in any serious manner, until around 1970. Only then did
the current theory of the firm literature begin to emerge, based largely upon the work of …

Our survey is not exhaustive: it does not include every one of the 420 articles we identified
as pertaining to the history of economics in the journals mentioned above. However, a look …

Abstract· This survey gives an overview of a set of selected articles published between 2016
and 2017 in the major journals that cover the history of economic thought. In surveying the …

2 Introduction in contemporary mainstream economics. Historian of economic thought Mark
Blaug has lamented the state of the history of thought within modern economics:[i] t is no …

This paper looks at the influence (or lack of influence) that ideas to do with the division of
labour have had on the mainstream economic theory of the firm. The notion of the division of …

2 Introduction theories of production which have been developed since ancient times and
the much more recent theories of the firm. It is the period beginning in the 1920s that is the …

We will look at the opportunities that were taken and those that were missed in the
development of the mainstream economic theory of the firm over the period 1920-2020. The …