Entrepreneurship and the Growth of Firms

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Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2006 - Business & Economics - 226 pages
Exploring the relationships between the growth of firms and entrepreneurship, the authors have drawn on many individual projects & case studies to provide a comprehensive analysis.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Entrepreneurship as growth growth as entrepreneurship
21
Conceptual and empirical challenges in the study of firm growth
39
Measuring growth methodological considerations and empirical results
62
Firm size expectations of nascent entrepreneurs
87
What do they think and feel about growth? An expectancyvalue approach to small business managers attitudes toward growth
109
The sustainability of the entrepreneurial orientation performance relationship
141
Highgrowth firms and their contribution to employment the case of Sweden 198796
156
Arriving at the highgrowth firm
179
Index
215
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