Interspersed with helpful figures and tables, this book will serve as a foundational text in organizational strategy and economics. Highly recommended. Undergraduates through faculty and professionals.
Mikko Ketokivi is Professor of Operations Management and Organization Design at IE University, Madrid. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota. His research and teaching focus on the economics of organization, operations management, research methods, and argumentation. He teaches, or has taught, these topics at business schools in the United States, France, Switzerland, Spain, and in his native Finland. In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. Ketokivi is an industrial entrepreneur who works with early-stage start-up companies in particular.
Joseph T. Mahoney is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and the Caterpillar Chair of Business in the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned his Ph.D. in Business Economics from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the economic foundations of strategy, which includes transaction cost economics, property
rights theory, agency theory, the resource-based/dynamic capabilities approach, and real options theory.