Small business growth: recent evidence and new directions

By M. Dobbs, Robert T. Hamilton. 2007

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

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Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of Growth Rate (2010, background): “…(Gilbert, McDougall, & Audretsch, 2006), knowledge and learning in growth (Macpherson & Holt, 2007; Phelps et al., 2007), small business growth (Dobbs & Hamilton, 2007), measurement constructs in growth (Shepherd & Wiklund, 2009), and a more economics-oriented perspective on growth (Coad,…”
The Impact of Innovation on the Performance of Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises: Evidence from Malaysia (2013, background): “As a multidimensional construct, performance has several names, including growth (Dobbs and Hamilton, 2006; Wolff and Pett, 2006), survival, success and competitiveness.”
Innovation and business performance for Spanish SMEs: New evidence from a multi-dimensional approach (2018, background): “A distinguishing characteristic of SMEs is the special role played by the owners/founders, who normally tend to either be managers themselves or maintain a high level of control over business operations (Dobbs and Hamilton, 2007).”
Entrepreneurial and Business Growth and the Quest for a “Comprehensive Theory”: Tilting at Windmills? (2010, methodology): “In addition to the most commonly used measures, namely employment and turnover, these include assets, market share, physical output, and various measures of profitability (Dobbs & Hamilton, 2007).”
Small business performance: business, strategy and owner‐manager characteristics (2013, background): “As was expected, factors relating to business characteristics, owner-manager characteristics and business strategy can all be important in understanding small firm growth (e.g. Storey, 1994; Dobbs and Hamilton, 2007; Barbero et al., 2011; Hamilton, 2012; Hansen and Hamilton, 2011).”
Entrepreneurial leadership, capabilities and firm growth (2015, background): “…teams Our knowledge of the factors influencing small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) growth has increased dramatically over the last two decades (Davidsson et al., 2006; Dobbs and Hamilton, 2007; Gibb and Davies, 1990; Moreno and Casillas, 2007, 2008; Parry, 2010; Rauch et al., 2005).”
Strategies for superior performance under adverse conditions: A focus on small and medium-sized high-growth firms (2014, background): “A number of different factors have been suggested to be facilitators of small-firm growth (for a literature review, see Davidsson et al., 2002; Dobbs and Hamilton, 2007).”
Perceived learning outcomes in entrepreneurship education: The impact of student motivation and team behaviour (2010, background): “For example, team-based companies have been found to be more growth-oriented and more international than other firms (Eisenhardt and Schoonhoven, 1990; Dobbs and Hamilton, 2007; Packalen, 2007).”
Factors distinguishing small firm growers and non-growers (2011, background): “(Dobbs and Hamilton, 2007; Gibb and Davies, 1990; Leitch et al., 2010; Phelps, Adams and Bessant, 2007; Storey 1994; Weinzimmer, Nystrom and Freeman, 1999).”
The cost of growth: small firms and the pricing of bank loans (2015, neutral): “Due to their importance, small growing firms have been the subject of numerous studies aiming to describe the growth cycle and to identify the factors supporting or impeding growth (Dobbs and Hamilton 2007).”
Disentangling the effects of organizational capabilities, innovation and firm size on SME sales growth (2013, neutral): “…view (Penrose 1959; Barney 1991; Wernerfelt 1984), dynamic capabilities (Geroski 1995; Grant 1996; Teece et al 1997; Teece 2007), knowledge management (Takeuchi and Nonaka 2004) and learning perspectives (Dobbs and Hamilton 2007; MacPherson and Holt 2007; Nelson and Winter 1982; Stuart 2000).”
Types of innovation, sources of information and performance in entrepreneurial SMEs (2010, background): “Also, strategic decisions are often framed within the constraints of family and individual goals, rather than maximization of firm potential, which might encourage entrepreneurs to reject changes due to their concomitant conflict (Dyer and Handler, 1994; Dobbs and Hamilton, 2007).”