Life Cycles of Growing Organizations: A Review with Implications for Knowledge and Learning

By Robert Phelps, Richard Adams, John Bessant. 2007

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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The entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship in private family firms: the moderating role of socioemotional wealth (2014, background): “This is a generally accepted classification in the literature (Gray and Ariss 1985) and simplifying a firm’s growth process into reduced categories is also standard practice (Phelps et al. 2007).”
Myth-busting and entrepreneurship policy: the case of high growth firms (2017, background): “The life-cycle models reached their peak in the entrepreneurship literature in the mid-1990s (Phelps et al. 2007).”
Evidence-Based Management: Concept Cleanup Time? (2009, methodology): “Available from the Advanced Institute of Management (www.aimresearch.org) Phelps et al. (2007) No Going Back: A Review of the Literature on Sustaining Organizational Change 2005 Buchanan, D. A., Ketley, D., Gollop, R., Jones, J. L., Lamont, S. S., Neath, A., & Whitby, E. National Health Service…”
Firm Life Cycle, Corporate Risk Taking, and Investor Sentiment (2017, unknown): “This is very important since resolving these challenges and problems successfully allows the organisation to transition from one stage to another (Phelps et al., 2007; Scott and Bruce, 1987).”
A Terminal Assessment of Stages Theory: Introducing a Dynamic States Approach to Entrepreneurship (2010, unknown): “One is the narrow coverage of reviews of the field: d’Amboise and Muldowney (1988), Gibb and Davies (1990), Hanks (1990), Gupta and Chin (1994), and Phelps et al. (2007) capture just a fraction (typically 25% or less) of the published models.”
Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of Growth Rate (2010, background): “Phelps et al. (2007) note that not all models are based on biological metaphors and refer to those alternative models as “the Problems Perspective.”
A dynamic model of growth phases and survival in international business-to-business new ventures: The moderating effect of decision-making logic (2013, background): “Recently, the assumptions of some earlier models have been challenged, especially the number of phases and linearity (Levie & Lichtenstein, 2010; Phelps et al., 2007).”