Empirical Analysis of Business Growth Factors Using Swedish Data

By Per Davidsson, Bruce A. Kirchhoff, Abdulnasser Hatemi-J, Helena Gustavsson. 2002

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What happens to gazelles? The importance of dynamic management strategy (2010, methodology): “So, Gibrats Law o¤ers a nice benchmark against which to test strategic managements claim that strategy matters [McGahan and Porter (2003)]. It is now well established that Gibrats Law is inconsistent with independent empirical evidence. Thus, in his review of Gibrats Legacy, Sutton (1997) conc”
The Role of Human and Financial Capital in the Profitability and Growth of Women‐Owned Small Firms (2007, result): “Firm growth has also been cited as a key measure of performance in prior research (Haber and Reichel 2005; Rodriquez et al. 2003; Davidsson et al. 2002; Orser and Hogarth-Scott 2002; Gundry and Welsch 2001; Orser, Hogarth-Scott, and Riding 2000; Rosa, Carter, and Hamilton 1996; Kolvereid 1992).”
Managerial capabilities and paths to growth as determinants of high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises (2011, background): “In recent years, interest in growth issues related to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has grown considerably (Barringer et al., 2005; Davidsson et al., 2000; Delmar et al., 2003; Hansen and Hamilton, 2011; Moreno and Casillas, 2008; Storey, 2011; Wiklund et al., 2009).”
High-growth SMEs versus non-high-growth SMEs: a discriminant analysis (2007, background): “…the development of an extensive empirical literature, which uses different methodology and various samples in different countries, such as Sweden (Davidsson et al. 2002), Italy (Bechetti and Trovato 2002), Japan (Wijiwardema and Cooray 1995, Goddard et al. 2002), Austria (Weiss 1998), Australia…”
The role of clustering in the growth of new technology-based firms (2010, background): “Additionally, public firms generally enjoy more comprehensive limited liability than do privately held firms, which may allow them to take more risks and, if they survive, to grow more rapidly (Davidsson et al. 2002).”
Strategies for superior performance under adverse conditions: A focus on small and medium-sized high-growth firms (2014, background): “A number of different factors have been suggested to be facilitators of small-firm growth (for a literature review, see Davidsson et al., 2002; Dobbs and Hamilton, 2007).”
Strategic entrepreneurship and small firm growth in Ghana (2014, methodology): “By combining the key theories into a single framework, Storey’s (1994) model provided a comprehensive structure for investigating small firm growth and became one of the most prevalent frameworks used by small business researchers (Davidsson et al., 2002; Freel and Robson, 2004; Smallbone and Wyer, ”
Entrepreneurship and SME growth: evidence from advanced and laggard transition economies (2011, background): “Numerous studies, using a variety of samples in terms of time, region, sector of activity and size, have contradicted this Law by finding a negative relationship between size, age and growth (Evans, 1987a, b; Hart and Oulton, 1996; Sutton, 1997; Hart, 2000; Davidsson et al., 2002; Almus, 2002; Harab”
Do more heavily regulated economies have poorer performing new ventures? Evidence from Britain and Spain (2008, background): “…upper 10% of the Birch Index distribution Between 6 and 9 years Construction, transport and communication, bus. rel. services (not-knowledge based) + + - Davidsson et al. (2002), Sweden 1996 employment minus initial employment divided by the average of 1996 and initial employment Some are more…”