The Growth of Firms

By Alex Coad. 2009

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Explaining growth paths of young technology‐based firms: structuring resource portfolios in different competitive environments (2011, background): “…the primary indicator of business success (Davidsson, Steffens, and Fitzsimmons, 2009) and several studies have examined the determinants of venture growth (see Davidsson, Delmar, and Wiklund, 2006; Gilbert, McDougall, and Audretsch, 2006; MacPherson and Holt, 2007; Coad, 2009 for recent reviews).”
‘Better late than never’: the interplay between green technology and age for firm growth (2017, background): “Although firm growth can be measured through different variables at the micro-level, like job creation, assets and sales growth (Coad 2009), our contribution to the nascent literature on the growth effects of green technologies focuses on employment.”
The Effects of General and Specific Human Capital on Long–Term Growth and Failure of Newly Founded Businesses (2013, unknown): “All these factors may increase the risk of failure (Coad, 2009).”
My first employee: an empirical investigation (2016, background): “…sought to respond to repeated calls for an improved understanding into the characteristics and determinants of firm growth (Gilbert et al. 2006; Coad 2009; McKelvie and Wiklund 2010) by suggesting that a better understanding of the growth of new ventures can be achieved by focusing on the…”
Innovation and Firm Growth: Is R&D Worth It? (2012, background): “Large firms Firms with at least 500 employees in a given year firm and its public age as in Equation 1 (see Coad, 2009 for a review; Yang and Huang, 2005; Coad and Rao, 2008 for similar model specifications): gr i ;t ¼ bi þ b1gr i ;t21 þ b2log ðSi ;t21Þ þ b3RDSi ;t21 þ b4log ðPubAgei ;t Þ þ 1i ;t…”
Varieties of entrepreneurship: exploring the institutional foundations of different entrepreneurship types through ‘Varieties-of-Capitalism’ arguments (2018, background): “At that stage, an important distinction is whether the potential entrepreneur perceives good business opportunities or rather is faced with the necessity to earn his or her living (Coad 2009:131; Vivarelli 2013: 1476).”
High-growth entrepreneurial firms in Africa: a quantile regression approach (2010, background): “Confronted with this scale cost-disadvantage, surviving small firms will grow rapidly to reach the MES, also allowing that above the MES, growth may be random.2 1 See Coad (2009) for a recent overview.”
Optimism and chance: The elephants in the entrepreneurship room (2011, background): “As noted earlier, Coad (2009) finds that even when using backcasting, only up to 15 percent of performance variation can be explained, implying that 85 percent remains unexplained.”
Strategies for superior performance under adverse conditions: A focus on small and medium-sized high-growth firms (2014, background): “The strategy–firm growth relationship has received much attention (Baum et al., 2001; Coad, 2009; Durand and Coeurderoy, 2001), but despite numerous studies, the results have been somewhat inconclusive.”