What characterizes a fast-growing firm?

By Matthias Almus. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Firm Growth : a Survey (2007, unknown): “Studies focusing on small businesses have also found a negative relationship between firm size and expected growth – see for example Yasuda (2005) for Japanese manufacturing firms, Calvo (2006) for Spanish manufacturing, McPherson (1996) for Southern African micro businesses, and Wagner (1992) and A”
Entrepreneurs' human capital and the start-up size of new technology-based firms (2004, background): “…4 In previous empirical works (see for instance Bates 1990, Stuart and Abetti 1990, Brüderl et al. 1992, Storey 1994, Westhead and Cowling 1995, Almus 2000, Brüderl and Preisendörfer 2000) knowledge acquired by entrepreneurs through education is captured by education attainments such as…”
What happens to gazelles? The importance of dynamic management strategy (2010, background): “For example, Bishop et al. (2009) report that in the UK only 7% of high-growth firms are in high-technology sectors.”
Firm Growth: Empirical Analysis (2010, unknown): “Measuring growth in absolute or relative terms can lead to diﬀerent results (Almus, 2002; Shepherd and Wiklund, 2009).”
High-growth firms: Introduction to the special section (2014, background): “Almus (2002) and Daunfeldt et al. (2013a) show that the selection of HGFs using different growth measures is primarily driven by whether high growth is measured as absolute or relative growth.”
Founders’ human capital and the performance of UK new technology based firms (2012, background): “Overall, it can be expected that when an EFT starts a company, the levels of performance will be higher than those of a company run by a single entrepreneur (Almus 2002; Storey 2004).”
Strategic entrepreneurship and small firm growth in Ghana (2014, background): “Firm size provides one of the most consistent indicators of small firm growth (Almus, 2002; Liedholm, 2002; McPherson, 1996; Yasuda, 2005).”
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”
Persistence, survival, and growth: a closer look at 20 years of fast-growing firms in Austria (2014, unknown): “(Almus, 2002; Henrekson and Johansson, 2010).”
What are the factors that affect innovation in growing SMEs (2012, background): “As Almus (2002) pointed out, analyses of the total corporate population risk overemphasising the relative growth in micro firms and the absolute growth in large firms.”
‘Better late than never’: the interplay between green technology and age for firm growth (2017, background): “In general, fast-growing firms have been shown to have crucial advantages in the ‘job creation argument’ (for a review see Almus 2002).”
The strategic management of high-growth firms:a review and theoretical conceptualization (2017, unknown): “Several studies in our review highlighted the importance of founders’ educational level for high growth (Almus, 2002; Barringer et al., 2005; Hölzl, 2009; Senderovitz et al., 2016).”
Beyond incubation: an analysis of firm survival and exit dynamics in the post-graduation period (2009, background): “research and studies on small firm growth and performance (see Almus and Nerlinger 1999; Almus 2002 for a description).”
Disentangling the effects of organizational capabilities, innovation and firm size on SME sales growth (2013, unknown): “Typically, small firms grow at systematically higher rates than their larger counterparts (Almus 2002).”
High-growth entrepreneurial firms in Africa: a quantile regression approach (2010, methodology): “5 Such analysis could consist of conducting a probit or logit regression explaining the incidence of HGFs—defined by arbitrary criteria—by a set of determining factors, as is done in Almus (2000).”
Is the R&D behaviour of fast-growing SMEs different? Evidence from CIS III data for 16 countries (2008, unknown): “Almus 2002; Davila et al. 2003; Parker et al. 2005).”
Do more heavily regulated economies have poorer performing new ventures? Evidence from Britain and Spain (2008, methodology): “…and employment change Mean of 2 years n.s. - - Baum et al. (2001), USA Factor obtained using sales, employment and profit growth Not given Almus (2002), Germany Firms in the upper 10% of employment growth distribution, firms in the upper 10% of the Birch Index distribution Between 6…”
High-growth firms and innovation: an empirical analysis for Spanish firms (2014, background): “On the other hand, Birch’s seminal contribution has been criticized for methodological deficiencies and overestimation of the capacity of new firms to generate employment (Davis et al. 1996; Almus 2002).”