Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of Growth Rate

By A. McKelvie, Johan Wiklund. 2010

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

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Roots to Grow: Family Firms and Local Embeddedness in Rural and Urban Contexts (2018, methodology): “Second, following previous studies (Backman & Palmberg, 2015; McKelvie & Wiklund, 2010; Shepherd & Wiklund, 2009), we used an alternative measure of business growth in terms of relative employment growth.”
The strategic management of high-growth firms:a review and theoretical conceptualization (2017, neutral): “The source of disagreements tends to relate to the specifics regarding the pace of growth, the nature of how growth is measured, and the number of years in which growth occurs (McKelvie and Wiklund, 2010).”
The paradox of new venture legitimation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem (2017, background): “…is thus an antecedent to venture growth, and because venture growth is a key concern in entrepreneurship research and practice (Gilbert, McDougall & Audretsch, 2006; McKelvie & Wiklund, 2010), the diffusion of new venture legitimacy beyond an entrepreneurial ecosystem is a highly pertinent issue.”
Entrepreneurship culture, knowledge spillovers and the growth of regions (2018, background): “Similarly, the performance view classifies entrepreneurship on the basis of outcomes or performance, such as innovation or growth (Acs & Gifford, 1996; Audretsch et al., 2015; McKelvie & Wiklund, 2010).”
High-growth firms: Introduction to the special section (2014, background): “McKelvie and Wiklund (2010) argue that research into firm growth should focus on differences between growth modes (i.e. shift emphasis from “how much” to “how” firms grow), although Spearot (2012) suggests that this is not especially problematic since internal and external growth is guided by…”
An Assessment of Resource-Based Theorizing on Firm Growth and Suggestions for the Future (2018, background): “The decision to utilize internal, external, or a blend of both resources for growth also reveals a firm’s chosen growth mode (McKelvie & Wiklund, 2010).”
Making sense of the elusive paradigm of entrepreneurship (2015, background): “This strand of literature classifies a firm or organization as being entrepreneurial based on some particular performance criterion (Cooper 1995; McKelvie and Wiklund 2010).”
Creating the Future Together: Toward a Framework for Research Synthesis in Entrepreneurship (2014, background): “…and uncovering the social mechanisms that explain why variables are related to each other, as recent calls for mechanism-based explanations of entrepreneurship phenomena also imply (Aldrich, 2010; Frese et al., 2012; McKelvie & Wiklund, 2010; Sarasvathy et al., 2013; Wiklund & Shepherd, 2011).”
My first employee: an empirical investigation (2016, background): “However, despite the efforts, research into the determinants of firm growth has been slow (McKelvie and Wiklund 2010), and our ability to predict which firms will grow is hardly better than random (Geroski 2000; Coad et al.”