Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Firm Growth

By Per Davidsson, Johan Wiklund. 2006

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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International Entrepreneurship: The Current Status of the Field and Future Research Agenda (2017, background): “Even though conducting longitudinal research is a time consuming and challenging process (Davidsson & Wiklund 2000), it can improve our understanding of the relationships examined in international entrepreneurship research (Sexton, Pricer & Nenide 2000).”
Entrepreneurial and Business Growth and the Quest for a “Comprehensive Theory”: Tilting at Windmills? (2010, background): “A number of reasons for these have been advanced, including an over-reliance on cross-sectional studies, debates about approaches to the study of growth, levels of analysis, and the appropriateness of measures used (Davidsson et al., 2007; Davidsson & Wiklund, 2000; Dobbs & Hamilton).”
The Effects of General and Specific Human Capital on Long–Term Growth and Failure of Newly Founded Businesses (2013, neutral): “We used employment growth as a dependent variable because this variable is used frequently in entrepreneurship research (Davidsson & Wiklund, 2000), and moreover, employment growth is positively related to other growth indicators such as sales growth (Combs et al., 2005; Delmar, 1997).”
Types of innovation, sources of information and performance in entrepreneurial SMEs (2010, methodology): “With logistic regression we also avoided one noteworthy impediment identified by Davidsson and Wiklund (2000), who state that using current variables to predict past processes breaks with the principle that the cause must precede the effect.”
Entrepreneurs' Social Skills and New Venture Performance: Mediating Mechanisms and Cultural Generality (2009, neutral): “Prior research has suggested measuring employment growth by absolute (i.e., t2 – t1) or relative (i.e., [t2 – t1] ÷ t1) measures (Davidsson & Wiklund, 2000; Delmar, 1997).”
DETERMINANTS OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED FAST GROWING ENTERPRISES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: A PANEL DATA ANALYSIS (2010, background): “These measures include, for example, growth of sales, employees, assets, profit, equity, and others (see Davidsson and Wiklund, 2000).”
Roots to Grow: Family Firms and Local Embeddedness in Rural and Urban Contexts (2018, background): “…Gilbert, McDougall & Audretsch, 2006; Shepherd & Wiklund, 2009; Wiklund, 1998), research on this topic has focused on both the antecedents and outcomes of growth, yet empirical evidence is somehow conflicting (Davidsson & Wiklund, 2006; Shepherd & Wiklund, 2009; Achtenhagen, Naldi, & Melin, 2013).”
Small business performance: business, strategy and owner‐manager characteristics (2013, background): “However, studying firm growth brings with it a number of methodological challenges (Davidsson and Wiklund, 2000; Storey, 2011).”
The Impact of Human Resource Practices and Compensation Design on Performance: An Analysis of Family‐Owned SMEs (2006, background): “Davidsson and Wiklund (2000) provide an in-depth analysis of growth measures in research and advocate sales growth as the performance indicator of choice when examining activities such as HRM.”
What are the factors that affect innovation in growing SMEs (2012, background): “Most studies define growth in terms of growth of sales or turnover (Davidsson and Wiklund, 2000).”
Determinants and Dimensions of Firm Growth (2009, neutral): “Nevertheless, it is observed that knowledge of firm growth is still limited (Davidsson & Wiklund, 2000; Wiklund, Patzelt & Shepherd, 2007).”
Generic strategies and firm performance in SMEs: a longitudinal study of Austrian SMEs (2010, methodology): “Firm growth rate can be operationalized in different ways (Davidsson and Wiklund 2000): we took the figures for 1992 and 2002 and calculated the average annual percentage growth.”
Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of Growth Rate (2010, background): “For example, suggestions involve: the need for longitudinal data and more careful consideration and measurement of the unit that actually grows (Davidsson & Wiklund, 2000); more careful matching of the growth theory in use and the measurement of growth (Shepherd & Wiklund, 2009); reliance on…”
The moderating influence of financial literacy on the relationship between access to finance and firm growth in Ghana (2016, background): “Indeed, research on SMEs’ growth is not scarce (e.g. Coad 2007; Davidsson and Wiklund 2000; Storey 1994; Wiklund, Patzelt, and Shepherd 2009; ).”