High-impact firms: gazelles revisited

By Zoltan J. Acs. 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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The Economic Contribution of High-Growth Firms: Do Policy Implications Depend on the Choice of Growth Indicator? (2014, background): “Productivity has been discussed in the literature on HGFs prior to this paper (Littunen and Tohmo 2003; Fritsch and Mueller 2004; Acs et al. 2008).”
ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEMS AND GROWTH ORIENTED ENTREPRENEURSHIP (2014, background): “Nevertheless, despite evidence that HGFs are not exclusively new businesses (Acs et al, 2008; Mason and Brown, 2010; 2013), policies in many OECD countries continue to emphasise start-ups.”
Firm Dynamics, Productivity Growth, and Job Creation in Developing Countries: The Role of Micro- and Small Enterprises (2015, unknown): “Gazelles are rapidly growing firms that account for much of the net growth in employment, and are also characterized by rapid productivity gains (Henrekson and Johansson 2010; Acs 2011).”
Myth-busting and entrepreneurship policy: the case of high growth firms (2017, background): “In recent years, HGFs have become something of the ‘fixation’ within enterprise policy and are widely perceived to be critical for economic development (Acs et al. 2008; Shane 2009; Mason and Brown 2013; Bos and Stam 2014; Lee 2014; Autio and Rannikko 2016).”
High-growth firms and innovation: an empirical analysis for Spanish firms (2014, background): “In this regard, the literature has referred to fast-growth firms (Deutschmann, 1991; Storey, 1994); high-growth impact firms (Acs et al., 2008), high-growth firms (Schreyer, 2000), “superstar” fast-growth firms (Coad and Rao, 2008), rapidly expanding firms (Schreyer, 2000), and gazelles (Birch, 1981”
High-growth firms: Introduction to the special section (2014, background): “, 2013); belong to a certain industry (Delmar et al., 2003; Davidsson and Delmar, 2003, 2006; Halabisky et al., 2006; Acs et al., 2008); region (Stam, 2005; Acs and Mueller, 2008); or country (Schreyer, 2000; Bravo-Biosca, 2010), and so on.”
Jobs for Shared Prosperity: Time for Action in the Middle East and North Africa (2013, background): “For instance, empirical studies for developed countries found that 5 to 10 percent of the fi rms deliver 50 to 80 percent of employment creation (see, for example, Acs, Parsons, and Tracy 2008; Coad and Hoelzl 2010).”
Are high-growth firms one-hit wonders? Evidence from Sweden (2015, background): “…and Preisendörfer, 2000; Davidsson and Henrekson, 2002; Delmar et al, 2003; Littunen and Tohmo, 2003; Halabisky et al, 2006; Acs and Mueller, 2008; Acs, 2011) have shown that most new jobs originate from a small number of high-growth We would like to thank Pontus Braunerhjelm, Alex Coad, Hans…”