Edith Penrose's Contributions to the Resource‐based View: An Alternative Perspective
回应了Rugman和Verbeke对彭罗斯在资源基础观中核心地位的质疑，通过引用彭罗斯的著作证明其观点错误，并指出彭罗斯对路径依赖的企业演化的分析预见了资源基础观的许多关键命题。
ABSTRACT Edith Penrose's work has been widely acknowledged to have played a central role in providing the intellectual foundations of the resource‐based view. This position, however, was recently challenged in a paper by Rugman and Verbeke (2002 ). In this paper we address the three main arguments of Rugman and Verbeke and, by drawing on her writings, demonstrate that their arguments are materially incorrect. While readily conceding that Penrose's primary goal was to explain the growth of firms, we show that her analysis of path‐dependent firm evolution anticipated many key propositions of the resource‐based view.