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Entrepreneurship and growth
Mike Wright,Ileana Stigliani +1 more
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The authors of as discussed by the authors suggest that there is a greater need to understand the processes that underlie entrepreneurial growth and how the entrepreneur's cognitive processes shape growth, how they access and configure resources to achieve growth, and whether these are influenced by a wider variety of contextual dimensions than previously recognised.Abstract:
The entrepreneurial growth literature is extensive, but research focusing on questions such as how firms grow, why they grow according to different patterns, how the decisions about growing or not growing are made, and the contextual dimensions within which growth takes place, has been neglected. This annual review article explores such issues: it suggests that there is a greater need to understand the processes that underlie entrepreneurial growth. In particular, we need to know more about how the entrepreneur’s cognitive processes shape growth (i.e. microfoundations of growth), how they access and configure resources to achieve growth (i.e. the resource orchestration underpinning growth), whether these are influenced by a wider variety of contextual dimensions than previously recognised, and how these influence different patterns and types of growth.read more
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Small Firm Growth: The Unfolding of a Trigger Point
Maria Tunberg,Johan Gaddefors +1 more
TL;DR: This article combined the concept of trigger points, events preceding bursts of growth, with a linguistic approach to show how firm growth unfolds through a process of translation, and brought new insights on growth contributing to both the advancement of the trigger point concept and the wider understanding of entrepreneurial activities as complex and contextually bound processes dependent on human interaction.
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Mid-size firm growth: The process and empirical examination of key drivers
Gary Wolbers,Arun K. Pillutla +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , a growth process model for mid-sized enterprises is proposed, which highlights the interaction of relationship and resource variables that are orchestrated by managers to achieve growth, and unpack which variables foster growth as well as how, where and when they do so.
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Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
TL;DR: In this article, an important concept for entrepreneurship, the business opportunity, is examined alongside with its sources and the process of controlling it, on the way to seeking a competitive advantage.
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Organizationally Defined Growth and the Interplay with Cognition and Biases
TL;DR: Firm-level growth was defined by the entrepreneurs in this study as specific areas that are relevant to their respective businesses as mentioned in this paper, and the interplay of these factors are unique to this work.
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