...Gabriel Delbem Bellon; Dimária Silva e Meirelles Purpose To investigate factors affecting the growth of small business through the analysis of the experience of new business streams, considering elements of diversification strategy while integrating specific entrepreneurship motivations. Design...

...Fanny Lepage; Caroline Tarillon Purpose This study explores the interplay between governance and growth in privately held, family-run small and midsize enterprises. Design/methodology/approach We used an abductive, exploratory and longitudinal methodology, using data from two semi-structured...

... involvement: the agency and the stewardship perspectives. Our study aims to enrich the literature on entrepreneurial growth, corporate governance, and family business. First, we contribute to the literature on entrepreneurial growth by focussing on the unexplored phenomenon of size transition and its...

...Caroline Tarillon Purpose New technology-based firms (NTBFs) are a great potential source of job creation and economic growth. In France, strong heterogeneity of their growth trajectories is observed yet many of them remain small. A better understanding of these trajectories is thus necessary...

... (and lower overall debt) was supplemented by a logistic regression. Findings SMEs which make use of efficiency-promoting technology, carry out preventive maintenance and control their costs and turnover during their growth are more inclined to use less external financing. Originality/value...

...Torben Eli Bager Purpose When a successful policy intervention for small firm growth is ending, a continuation decision may be relevant. However, immediately after program termination, solid analysis of the growth of the treated firms in comparison with similar firms cannot be produced, so...

...Sara Lindström; Minna Janhonen Purpose By adopting a paradox lens, the purpose of this study is to explore paradoxes in relation to work organization, recruitment and competence development in growth-oriented companies. Design/methodology/approach The study is a qualitative content analysis...

...Ronit Yitshaki Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the role of emotional intelligence (EI) in explaining high-tech entrepreneurs' psychological ownership (PO) and, in turn, how their PO influences venture growth. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on data collected...

...Javed Hussain; Samuel Salia; Amin Karim Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between financial literacy, access to finance and growth among small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the Midlands region of the UK. It assesses whether financial literacy assists...

...Bernard Acquah Obeng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the sources and use of social capital on small firm growth in an emerging economy. The study also examines the relationship between small firms’ human capital, internal resources and strategy on social capital sources used...

...Paul Braidford; Ian Drummond; Ian Stone Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical evidence in support of widespread calls for new approaches to understanding small business growth, by exploring the use of non-positivist methods (e.g. critical realism) to analyse how owners...

...Adan Guyo Shibia; Dulacha Galgallo Barako Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of investment climate and firm-specific variables on the growth of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Kenya. Design/methodology/approach The paper utilized a cross-section survey data...

...Cécile Chanut-Guieu; Gilles C. Guieu Purpose – Rapid growth constitutes both a theoretical and an economic issue. Thanks to a comparative study of five high growth small and medium sized enterprises located in Rhône-Alp and Provence (France), the authors propose a processual analysis of high...

...Piers Thompson; Robert Williams; Brychan Thomas Purpose – This paper aims to examine the impact of developing more active web sites and increasing e-commerce on the relationship between innovation and growth performance in SMEs. Using the existing literature and empirical analysis the study seeks...

... a competitive advantage. The results from an empirical study of some 267 organisations are used to shed some light on this debate. The evidence supports the idea that a growing organisation is associated with the existence of internal strategic systems that support the firm’s growth ambitions, allowing...

...Svante Andersson This paper analyses growth patterns in three high‐growth Swedish firms (Intentia, IBS, and in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) industry. A multi‐theoretical framework is developed and used to analyse the firms’ growth. It is concluded that growth is a complex phenomenon...

..., motivation, objectives and targets) and the 812 respondents to the first quarter 2000 survey (16:1, changes). The overlap between the respondents to these successive surveys allows their responses to be cross‐tabulated. It was expected that there would be strong positive links between growth‐orientation...

...Hannu Littunen This study examined factors influencing the growth of new firms in metal‐based manufacturing and business services in Finland over the three first years of their operation. The factors affecting the growth of a new firm were found in the start‐up phase, in the characteristics...

...Richard K. Blundel; Martin Hingley This paper presents new insights into the growth of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) engaged in vertical inter‐firm relationships. It adopts a processual and resource‐based perspective and focuses on the experiences of fresh produce businesses which have...

... created five or more years previously (created before 1991). The first group consists of 19 enterprises and the second 48 enterprises. A study of those variables that better reflect the potential of the business was carried out. The level of risk, the growth and the profitability, characteristics that we...