The Chronological Development of the Theory of the Firm, Theory of Entrepreneurship and Theory of Social Entrepreneurship

Alchian, A. A., & Demsetz, H. (1972). Production, information costs, and economic organization. The American economic review, 62(5), 777-795.
Alvord, S. H., Brown, L. D., & Letts, C. W. (2004). Social entrepreneurship and societal transformation an exploratory study. The journal of applied behavioral science, 40(3), 260-282.
Aharoni, Y. (1993). In search f o r t h e unique: can firm-specific advantages be evaluated? yair aharoni, (January).
Ajzen, I. (1991). The theory of planned behavior. Organizational behavior and human decision processes, 50(2), 179-211.
Alchian, & Demsetz. (1972). Linked references are available on JSTOR for this article?: Production , Information Costs , and Economic Organization, 62(5), 777–795.
Boschee, J., & McClurg, J. (2003). Toward a better understanding of social entrepreneurship: Some important distinctions. Retrieved October, 9, 2008.
Bygrave, W. D. (1997). The entrepreneurial process. The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship, 4th Edition, 1-26
Coase, R. H. (1937). The Nature of the Firm. Economica, 4(16), 386–405. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0335.1937.tb00002.x
Cyert, R. M., & March, J. G. (1963). A behavioral theory of the firm. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2.
Dart, R. (2004). The legitimacy of social enterprise. Nonprofit management and leadership, 14(4), 411-424.
Dees, J. G. (1998). The meaning of social entrepreneurship. Innovation, 2006(11-4–06), 1–6. http://doi.org/10.2307/2261721
Emmett, R. B. (1999). Frank Hyneman Knight (1885–1972): A bibliography of his writings. Research in the history of economic thought and methodology, 9, 1-100.
Emerson, J., & Twersky, F. (Eds.). (1996). New social entrepreneurs: The success, challenge and lessons of non-profit enterprise creation. The Homeless Economic Fund, the Roberts Foundation.
Hébert, R. F., & Link, A. N. (1988). The entrepreneur: mainstream views & radical critiques. Praeger Publishers.
Israel, K. (1973). Competition and entrepreneurship. The university of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Jensen, M. C., & Meckling, W. H. (1976). Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure. Journal of financial economics, 3(4), 305-360.
Kogut, B., & Zander, U. (1992). Knowledge of the firm, combinative capabilities, and the replication of technology. Organization science, 3(3), 383-397.
Kogut, B., & Zander, U. (1996). What firms do? Coordination, identity, and learning. Organization science, 7(5), 502-518.
Leibenstein, H. (1968). Entrepreneurship and development. The American Economic Review, 58(2), 72-83.
Mair, J., & Noboa, E. (2003). Emergence of social enterprises and their place in the new organizational landscape.
McMullen, J. S., & Shepherd, D. A. (2006). Entrepreneurial action and the role of uncertainty in the theory of the entrepreneur. Academy of Management review, 31(1), 132-152.
Nelson, R. R., & Winter, S. G. (1982). An evolutionary theory of economic change. Cambridge MA Belknap (Vol. 93). http://doi.org/10.2307/2232409
Nicholls, A., & Cho, A. H. (2006). Social entrepreneurship: The structuration of a field. In A. Nicholls (Ed.), Social entrepreneurship: New models of sustainable social change (pp. 99-118). New York, NY: Oxford University Press
Penrose, E. (1959). The theory of the firm. NY: John Wiley & Sons
Shane, S. & Venkataraman, S. (2000). The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research. Academy of Management Review, 25(1), pp.217-26.
Schumpeter, J. A. (1934). The theory of economic development: An inquiry into profits, capital, credit, interest, and the business cycle (Vol. 55). Transaction publishers.
Schumann, J. (2008). Jean Baptiste Say (1767–1832) (pp. 105-119). Verlag CH Beck.
Shane, S., & Venkataraman, S. (2000). The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research. Academy of management review, 25(1), 217-226.
Simon, H. A. (1951). A formal theory of the employment relationship. Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 293-305.
Social, M., & Blueprint, E. (2015). Unleashing the power of Social Enterpreneurship: Malaysia Social Enterprise Blueprint 2015-2018. Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC), 1. http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107415324.004
Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (1990). Basics of qualitative research (Vol. 15). Newbury Park, CA: Sage
Thompson, J. L. (2002). The world of the social entrepreneur. International journal of public sector management, 15(5), 412-431.
Waddock, S. A., & Post, J. E. (1991). Social entrepreneurs and catalytic change. Public administration review, 393-401.
Wernerfelt, B. (1984). A Resource based view of the firm. Strategic Management Journal, 5(2), 171–180. http://doi.org/10.1002/smj.4250050207
Whetten, D. A. (1989). What constitutes a theoretical contribution?. Academy of management review, 14(4), 490-495
Williamson, O. E. (1975). Markets and hierarchies. New York, 26-30.
Williamson, O. E. (2005). Transaction cost economics. In Handbook of new institutional economics (pp. 41-65). Springer US.
Yunus, M. (2007). Banker to the Poor. Penguin Books India.
Zahra, S. A., Gedajlovic, E., Neubaum, D. O., & Shulman, J. M. (2009). A typology of social entrepreneurs: Motives, search processes and ethical challenges. Journal of business venturing, 24(5), 519-532.

Azan, Z., & Sarif, S. M. (2017). The Chronological Development of the Theory of the Firm, Theory of Entrepreneurship and Theory of Social Entrepreneurship. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 7(3), 652-658.

Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s)
Published by Human Resource Management Academic Research Society (www.hrmars.com)
This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this license may be seen at: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode