Penrose’s Resource‐Based Approach: The Process and Product of Research Creativity
探讨了彭罗斯（1959）经典著作《企业成长理论》的创作过程，分析其如何通过归纳与演绎推理形成资源基础方法，并阐述该书对管理学及当前资源基础理论的贡献与未来研究方向。
As this paper documents, Edith Tilton Penrose’s (1959) classic The Theory of the Growth of the Firm is one of the most influential books of the second half of the twentieth century bridging economics and management. Yet, there is little understanding of the process by which this classic came about and the lessons to be learned concerning research creativity. This paper explores Penrose’s (1959) ‘resources approach’ to the growth of the firm as an iterative process of scientific discovery via induction and scientific justification by deductive reasoning. We focus on: (1) the research process that led to Penrose’s (1959) classic; (2) the book’s contributions to management; (3) the generative nature of Penrose’sresearch for current resource‐based theory; and (4) future research building on Penrose’s ‘resources approach’.