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Penrose Effect
Penrose stated that "firm knowledge and experience gives rise to excess resources that can be redeployed" towards other opportunities in the marketplace. It is by this means that firms grow (Goerzen & Beamish, 2007). This growth, however, was not sustainable internally, because in firms characterized by predominantly internal management did not growth their knowledge and experience quickly enough to sustain a high level of growth. The Penrose Effect, therefore, is that firms will deliberately slow down their rate of growth in order to maintain operational effectiveness following a period of rapid growth (Tan & Mahoney, 2005).
The Penrose Effect can affect everyday management decision making by calling attention to managers the need to management growth carefully in order to retain efficiency. Many firms today compete on a cost leadership platform. This necessitates cost control on the back end. One of the ways to achieve cost control is through high levels of operating efficiency. The Penrose Effect argues that success and rapid growth will allow firms to acquire...
The first is that until those resources are redeployed, they will be a drag on the firm's level of efficiency. The second is that redeployment should only come if the marginal opportunity of that redeployment is superior to the firm's current business. If it is not, the firm could find its returns reduced. In order to constantly redeploy assets into useful situations, the firm would most likely need to continually expand its core business, and do so into businesses just as lucrative as the present one.
The implication of this is that firms should constrain their rate of growth at a level where these excess resources are not acquired. This level is most likely lower than the level at which a highly successful firm would normally grow, but the underlying theory is that the firm would be able to sustain its growth rate over the long run, whereas without any constraints on growth the firm would grow at a rapid rate but then see its growth rate decline significantly.
One of the modern management…
Works Cited:
Goerzen, A. & Beamish, P. (2007). The Penrose effect: Excess expatriates in multinational enterprises. Management International Review. Retrieved November 27, 2010 from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3265/is_2_47/ai_n29348008/
Tan, D. & Mahoney, J. (2005) Examining the Penrose Effect in an international business context: The dynamics of Japanese firm growth in U.S. industries. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved November 27, 2010 from http://www.business.illinois.edu/Working_Papers/papers/03-0113.pdf
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