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Article: Obituaries: Professor Edith Penrose
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 19, 1996
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Few women have had as distinguished a record as an economist as
Edith Penrose. She was influential in the affairs of many countries
and provided many new ideas on management, patents and petroleum,
as a writer, as a member of committees and as a university
professor.
Her best known book, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm,
published in 1959, brought her instant recognition as a creative
thinker, and its importance to the analysis of the job of
management has been increasingly realised. Earlier, she had
published in 1951 a study of the economics of the international
patents system. In 1968 she produced a book on the international
petroleum industry, following it with a collection of essays ...