Entrepreneurial and Business Growth and the Quest for a “Comprehensive Theory”: Tilting at Windmills?

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Growing on Steroids: Rapidly Scaling the User Base of Digital Ventures Through Digital Innovation (2017, background): “We define rapid scaling as a generative process by which a venture’s user base increases significantly between two points in time (Henfridsson and Bygstad 2013; Lee et al. 2006; Leitch et al. 2010).”
Myth-busting and entrepreneurship policy: the case of high growth firms (2017, result): “This has, in some respects, left the high growth entrepreneurship literature theoretically and empirically underdeveloped (Leitch et al. 2010; Demir et al. 2016), which has in turn allowed for myths held within high”
Rural entrepreneurship or entrepreneurship in the rural – between place and space (2015, background): “Sometimes entrepreneurs even compromise financial development of their ventures for the achievement of non-monetary aspirations (Achtenhagen et al., 2010; Davidsson, 1989; Leitch et al., 2010; Lewis, 2008).”
Impact of information technology innovation on firm performance in Kenya (2019, background): “Leitch, Hill, and Neergaard (2010), maintains that there is a need to understand the company ’ s stages of growth relative to the environment (Pitelis, 2010).”