What holds back high-growth firms? Evidence from UK SMEs

By Neil Chueh-An Lee. 2014

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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The strategic management of high-growth firms:a review and theoretical conceptualization (2017, unknown): “Hence, the lack of such management experience can hinder high growth (Lee, 2014).”
Location determinants of high-growth firms (2015, background): “…capital financing in rural areas. these findings across the different county types are generally consistent with results for US self-employment growth reported in Goetz and Rupasingha (2014), but at odds with those in Lee (2014), who finds for the UK that access to finance is a concern for firms.”
Distinguishing micro-businesses from SMEs: a systematic review of growth constraints (2016, background): “…which are outside OMEs’ control, can constrain growth regardless of the level of ambition and capabilities and can even suppress growth ambition (Lee, 2014; Perren, 1999; 2000; Wiklund et al., 2009), often influencing whether micro-businesses remain very small or grow significantly (Johnson et…”
What are the biggest obstacles to growth of SMEs in developing countries? – An empirical evidence from an enterprise survey (2016, methodology): “For example, Lee (2014) used the change in growth of the number of employees as the definition in his study.”
Myth-busting and entrepreneurship policy: the case of high growth firms (2017, background): “greater difficulties raising debt funding than non-HGFs (Lee 2014), although this has subse-”
Are high-growth firms one-hit wonders? Evidence from Sweden (2015, background): “Another fruitful area of research is potential HGFs (Lee 2014).”
My first employee: an empirical investigation (2016, background): “, 2006) and it is also among the most-cited threats to business growth (Williamson et al., 2002; Lee, 2014).”
The cost of growth: small firms and the pricing of bank loans (2015, unknown): “…Lancaster, UK e-mail: a.rostamkalaei@lancaster.ac.uk M. Freel Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada e-mail: Freel@telfer.uottawa.ca attention has been paid to the issue of barriers to growth, that is to the obstacles faced by firms, as they expand rapidly (Lee 2013).”