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Understanding the Myth of High Growth Firms

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Business Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9457-7

ISBN: 978-1-4614-9456-0

Publisher: Springer New York - Springer Journals

Nov 7, 2013

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Chapter 1Introduction

Brännback, Malin; Carsrud, Alan L.; Kiviluoto, Niklas

Pages: 1 –3

[This book is the result of reflecting on a quarter of a century of personally researching, consulting, teaching, and helping to start hundreds of new ventures. These have been in industries as diverse as airlines, accounting, biotechnology, information technology, personal products, wineries,...
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Chapter 2How Did Growth Become So Interesting?

Brännback, Malin; Carsrud, Alan L.; Kiviluoto, Niklas

Pages: 5 –19

[Everything begins with something in history and entrepreneurship and growth are no exceptions. Historically, it is widely thought that entrepreneurship, as a concept, was coined by Jean Bertrand Say (1803), although some find even deeper historical roots with the work of Cantillion in the...
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Chapter 3Entrepreneurship, Growth, and High-Growth in Research and Policy

Brännback, Malin; Carsrud, Alan L.; Kiviluoto, Niklas

Pages: 21 –41

[In this chapter, we review in greater depth the core concepts being expressed in this book: entrepreneurship, growth, growth entrepreneurship, and high growth, from both a research and a policy perspective. We do this to show that these concepts are conceptualized very differently depending on...
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Chapter 4Measuring Growth

Brännback, Malin; Carsrud, Alan L.; Kiviluoto, Niklas

Pages: 43 –54

[There is an old adage that what gets measured is what gets done. This may clearly be at work when we look at measuring growth. One of the great banes for most authors trying to do research in entrepreneurship is levels and unit of analysis. When studying the growth of firms there are different...
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Chapter 5Growth and Profit

Brännback, Malin; Carsrud, Alan L.; Kiviluoto, Niklas

Pages: 55 –74

[In this section, we look more closely at the relationship of growth and profit and why, despite the seeming ignoring of profit in the discussion of growth entrepreneurship it remains ultimately of critical importance. To start this discussion, it is appropriate to return to one of the...
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Chapter 6Conflicting Agendas: Stakeholders, Growth, and Profit

Brännback, Malin; Carsrud, Alan L.; Kiviluoto, Niklas

Pages: 75 –81

[A part of our reason for writing this book is our frustration with seeing stories in the public media that seems to perpetuate the growth myth. For example, each year Fortune magazine in the USA releases its “500 fasting growing firms” list which is widely reported on by other media outlets like...
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Chapter 7Do Experts Know What Growth is? Two Studies on Perception

Brännback, Malin; Carsrud, Alan L.; Kiviluoto, Niklas

Pages: 83 –96

[One of us remembers sitting in a meeting at Stanford University in 2007 with a group of managing partners of a half dozen of Silicon Valley’s leading venture capitalist (VC) firms. The topic of the discussion was how VCs went about picking winners for their portfolios. One member of the audience...
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Chapter 8Discussion and Recommendations

Brännback, Malin; Carsrud, Alan L.; Kiviluoto, Niklas

Pages: 97 –116

[As we near the end of our journey through the mythical world of growth it is time to recap what we have covered. We started out this book by reflecting on our own experiences over a quarter of a century of personally researching, consulting, teaching, and helping to start hundreds of new...

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