Entrepreneurship and the growth of firms
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Bibliographic Information
Entrepreneurship and the growth of firms
E. Elgar, c2006
Available at 6 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What characterizes the phenomenon of (small) firm growth, and how can it best be studied? Why and how do firms grow - and why don't they? Is firm growth externally determined or the result of managers' visions and actions? What are the different paths that firms follow in order to achieve high growth? Is growth evidence of entrepreneurship - and is growth always desirable?
In this book, three leading scholars have integrated some of their most important research in order to answer these questions on firm growth. The result is a volume that builds on studies of many thousands of firms in several different projects. It offers deep insights into the firm growth phenomenon and how it can be studied.
This research-based study promises to be a valuable resource for academics and students focussing on business and management, and, more specifically, entrepreneurship. Researchers who aspire to design and conduct further studies leading to deeper and better established insights into firm growth will also find the book invaluable, as will those who encourage and assist firm growth as part of their profession.
Table of Contents
Contents: 1. Introduction Part I: The Conceptual and Empirical Complexity of the Firm Growth Phenomenon 2. Entrepreneurship as Growth: Growth as Entrepreneurship 3. Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Firm Growth 4. Measuring Growth: Methodological Considerations and Empirical Results Part II: Growth Aspirations and Motivation 5. Firm Size Expectations of Nascent Entrepreneurs 6. What Do They Think and Feel About Growth? An Expectancy-Value Approach to Small Business Managers' Attitudes Toward Growth Part III: Patterns and Determinants of Actual Growth 7. The Sustainability of the Entrepreneurial Orientation-Performance Relationship 8. High-Growth Firms and Their Contribution to Employment: The Case of Sweden 1987-96 9. Arriving at the High-Growth Firm Index
by "Nielsen BookData"