Edith Penrose
Edith Penrose | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 15, 1914 Los Angeles, United States |
| Died | October 11, 1996 (aged 81) |
| Known for | Resource-based view |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of California at Berkeley Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis | The Economics of the International Patent System (1951) |
| Doctoral advisor | Fritz Machlup |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University Baghdad University London School of Economics School of Oriental and African Studies INSEAD |
| Notable works | The theory of the growth of the firm |
Edith Elura Tilton Penrose (November 15, 1914 – October 11, 1996) was an American-born British economist whose best known work is The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, which describes how firms grow and how quickly they do so. Writing in The Independent, the economist Sir Alec Cairncross stated that the book brought Dr. Penrose "instant recognition as a creative thinker, and its importance to the analysis of the job of management has been increasingly realized".