The Variance of Firm Growth Rates: The Scaling Puzzle

By Jo Sutton. 2001

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International Trade and Aggregate Fluctuations in Granular Economies (2009, unknown): “Sutton (2002) provides evidence that in large corporations, the constituent business units themselves follow a power law, with just a few very large business units and many much smaller ones.”
Models of Growth and Firm Heterogeneity (2010, unknown): “[78] Sutton, J.”
Pareto's Law of Income Distribution: Evidence for Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States (2005, background): “org/cond-mat/0403161 [19] Sutton J (2001) The Variance of Firm Growth Rates: The Scaling Puzzle.”
A Unified Theory of Firm Selection and Growth (2009, unknown): “However, using a comprehensive sample of US manufacturing rms, Evans (1987a) 5 and Evans (1987b) show that the negative growth-size relationship is robust when correcting for sample truncation caused by the exit of smaller rms. Similar ndings are reported by EEKT for the growth of sales of rms to in”
Market Share Dynamics and the Persistence of Leadership Debate (2007, unknown): “…of the kind attempted here. b. Scaling Relationships The recent literature regarding scaling relationships on firm growth rates, has focussed on the description of relationships, and on differences in views as to candidate explanations for such relationships (Stanley et al. (1996), Sutton (2002)).”
On the mechanics of firm growth (2011, background): “[46] Sutton, John, “The Variance of Firm Growth Rates: The ‘Scaling’ Puzzle,” Physica A, CCCXII (2002), 577-590.”
An evolutionary theory for interpreting urban scaling laws Une théorie évolutive pour expliquer les lois d'échelle dans les systèmes de villes (2006, background): “…have two powerful advantages: they summarize structural features of systems in a very efficient way, and they reveal the effect of universal constraints acting on the structure and development over several orders of magnitude in these systems (West et al., 1997, Brown and West, 2000, Sutton, 2002).”