“Business Growth”—Do Practitioners and Scholars Really Talk about the Same Thing?

By Leona Achtenhagen, Lucia Naldi, L. Melin. 2010

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

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Entrepreneurial and Business Growth and the Quest for a “Comprehensive Theory”: Tilting at Windmills? (2010, background): “…things, this might help to stimulate discourse and start to bridge the gap between “scholarly interest and entrepreneurial practice” identified by Achtenhagen et al. (2010) as well as providing insights which should help shape the scholarly agenda, influence policy decisions, and provide…”
Did firm age, experience, and access to finance count? SME performance after the global financial crisis (2018, background): “Only recently has growth started to be treated as a multidimensional, heterogeneous and complex construct (Achtenhagen et al., 2010; Leitch et al., 2010).”
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).”
Firm growth, adaptive capability, and entrepreneurial orientation (2017, background): “The shared variance between revenue and asset growth, however, reflects the collective change in the firm’s resource base (Achtenhagen, Naldi, and Melin, 2010).”
Myth-busting and entrepreneurship policy: the case of high growth firms (2017, background): “not the focus of this paper, definitional issues are important because conceptions of business growth vary markedly between scholars and practitioners (Achtenhagen et al. 2010).”
The relationship between innovation, knowledge, and performance in family and non-family firms: an analysis of SMEs (2013, background): “predicting SME performance (Anderson and Eshima 2011; Achtenhagen et al. 2010).”
Small business performance: business, strategy and owner‐manager characteristics (2013, background): “Business performance Measurements As has been pointed out elsewhere, measuring business performance is complex because of the absence of tangible asset and profitability data as well as the subject nature of the phenomenon (Wang and Ang, 2004; Achtenhagen et al., 2010).”
The growth paradox, sustainable development, and business strategy (2021, positive): “However, alternative approaches have adopted process-based understandings utilizing concepts such as “stage of maturity” (Landrum & Ohsowski, 2018), “stages-of-development” (Davidsson et al., 2006, p. 367), “developmental phases” (Benn et al., 2018), and “process growth” (Achtenhagen et al., 2010).”
The influence of firm age and intangible resources on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm growth among Japanese SMEs (2013, background): “The relative importance of SMEs to economic development has long spurred scholarly interest (Acs and Audretsch, 1988), and particularly in regards to the factors that promote SME growth (Achtenhagen et al., 2010).”
The Resource‐Based View in Entrepreneurship: A Content‐Analytical Comparison of Researchers' and Entrepreneurs' Views (2016, background): “41 growth very differently (Achtenhagen, Naldi, and Melin 2010).”
My first employee: an empirical investigation (2016, background): “A. Coad University of Sussex, Falmer, UK A. Coad (&) Knowledge for Growth Unit, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Edificio Expo.”
What really happens to small and medium-sized enterprises in a global economic recession? UK evidence on sales and job dynamics (2015, positive): “, 2008; Cowling, 2006), making employment and sales two natural candidates and mostly used variables for growth measures (Achtenhagen et al., 2010; Delmar, 1997; Unger et al., 2011; Weinzimmer et al., 1998).”