Rapid growth and high performance: The entrepreneur's “impossible dream?”

By Charlene L. Nicholls-Nixon. 2005

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Pecking order and debt capacity considerations for high-growth companies seeking financing (2010, background): “Proper financial management, including raising suitable financing, is one of the key factors shaping high-growth companies (Nicholls-Nixon 2005).”
The strategic management of high-growth firms:a review and theoretical conceptualization (2017, unknown): “However, studying HGFs is fraught with challenges as they are difficult to sample and follow (Daunfeldt et al., 2014) and have rapidly evolving organizational structures (Nicholls-Nixon, 2005; Powell and Sandholtz, 2012) that make them difficult to study.”
A contextual examination of new venture performance: entrepreneur leadership behavior, top management team heterogeneity, and environmental dynamism (2007, background): “For example, Nicholls-Nixon (2005) suggests that entrepreneurs attempting to lead their startups toward high growth while operating under dynamic conditions are likely to benefit from adopting an empowering leadership style, noting that (p. 84) ‘Rather than deciding a priori the direction of growth…”
The Influence of CEO Gender on Market Orientation and Performance in Service Small and Medium‐Sized Service Businesses (2010, unknown): “…as an antecedent to financial performance is consistent with recent contentions in the literature on small and medium-sized enterprises that “growth helps to establish legitimacy, achieve economies of scale, attract investment capital, and increase profitability” (Nicholls-Nixon 2005, p. 77).”
Transformational and transactional leadership and employee’s entrepreneurial behavior in knowledge–intensive industries (2017, background): “, 2014) and self-organizing behavior (Nicholls-Nixon, 2005).”
Myth-busting and entrepreneurship policy: the case of high growth firms (2017, background): “Indeed, the reverse is often the case: a period of rapid growth can often jeopardize the long-term stability of some ventures (Delmar, McKelvie, and Wennberg 2013) especially those firms run by less experienced entrepreneurs or top management teams (TMTs) (Barringer, Jones, and Neubaum 2005; Nicholl”
A Terminal Assessment of Stages Theory: Introducing a Dynamic States Approach to Entrepreneurship (2010, unknown): “35 and small ventures (e.g. Baker & Nelson, 2005; Garnsey & Heffernan, 2003; Lichtenstein, 2000; Nicholls-Nixon, 2005).”
Hyper-Growth of SMEs: Toward a Reconciliation of Entrepreneurial Orientation and Strategic Resources (2012, unknown): “(3) Managerial and entrepreneurial challenges associated with high-growth (Fombrun and Wally, 1989; Nicholls-Nixon, 2005; Fischer and Reuber, 2003).”