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

Alexander McKelvie; Johan Wiklund

Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University.

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2010

The development of firm growth research has been notably slow. In this paper, we argue that a major reason for this lack of development is the impatience of researchers to prematurely address the question of “how much?” before adequately providing answers to the question “how?” On the basis of an extensive review of the literature, we suggest how growth research can advance by changing focus to growth mode (organic, acquisition, hybrid). Toward this end, we provide a research agenda that helps establish the types of questions that growth researchers can ask within this new focus.

DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6520.2010.00375.x
Volume
34 (2)
Pages
261-288
Language
en
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