Measuring Growth: Methodological Considerations and Empirical Results

By Per Davidsson, Frédéric Delmar, Johan Wiklund. 2006

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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High-growth firms and innovation: an empirical analysis for Spanish firms (2014, background): “Delmar (1997) points out that little congruence is to be found among the growth measures used across studies.”
The strategic management of high-growth firms:a review and theoretical conceptualization (2017, background): “Regarding the type of growth, the HGF literature examines three diverse types of growth: 1) growth in sales (interchangeably called turnover or revenue), 2) growth in number of employees (Delmar, 1997; Shepherd and Wiklund, 2009), and 3) growth in productivity (Du and Temouri, 2015).”
On the Autocorrelation of Growth Rates (2009, background): “Research into firm growth has focused on the manufacturing sector at the expense of the service sector (Delmar, 1997).”
High‐Growth Women’s Entrepreneurship: Fueling Social and Economic Development (2018, background): “However, others note that growth in sales is a better measure, with some saying that growth should be at least 20 percent in sales per year (Delmar 1997; Delmar, Davidsson, and Gartner 2003).”
Generic strategies and firm performance in SMEs: a longitudinal study of Austrian SMEs (2010, background): “We did not account for patterns in growth and could, for instance, have categorized different groups and patterns and considered the volatility aspect (Delmar 1997).”
Pathways to entrepreneurial growth: The influence of management, marketing, and money (2009, background): “It is acknowledged that a relative measure of sales growth is easier for smaller, rather than larger, firms to achieve given their lower starting points (Delmar, 1997).”
High-growth firms: Introduction to the special section (2014, background): “Research has investigated whether HGFs are small (Delmar, 1997; Delmar and Davidsson, 1998; Weinzimmer et al., 1998; Delmar et al., 2003; Shepherd and Wiklund, 2009); young (Delmar et al.”
Performance Configurations over Time: Implications for Growth– and Profit–Oriented Strategies (2009, background): “A large number of empirical studies of the performance of young and/or small firms use growth as the dependent variable (see reviews by Ardishvili, Cardozo, Harmon, & Vadakath, 1998; Delmar, 1997; Wiklund, 1998).”
Entrepreneurial leadership, capabilities and firm growth (2015, background): “, 2007), and their influence is evident in one or more dimensions of growth outcomes such as increases in sales revenues, profitability, market share, employment or assets (Delmar, 1997).”
The Effects of General and Specific Human Capital on Long–Term Growth and Failure of Newly Founded Businesses (2013, unknown): “Growth reflects success over a period of time more appropriately than, for instance, profit levels at a certain point of time (Delmar, 1997).”