Research into firm growth has been accumulating at a terrific pace, and Alex Coad s survey
of this multifaceted field provides a detailed, comprehensive overview of the latest …

The absence of any unifying theory means that the literature continues to feature a wide
range of growth measures and model specifications. As a result of this, knowledge …

Empirical work on micro and small firms focuses on developed countries, while existing work
on developing countries is all too often based on small samples taken from ad hoc …

We survey the phenomenon of the growth of firms drawing on literature from economics,
management and sociology. We begin with a review of empirical" stylised facts" before …

Firm growth is an important indicator of a thriving economy. Although the determinants of
firm growth have been studied in various disciplines, an integrated analysis is still lacking …

This paper focuses on the dual role of R&D–knowledge generation and the technological-
competence-enhancing effect of R&D–and its implication for the endogenous evolution of …

Drawing on concepts from earlier theories of firm growth (Gibrat's Law-GL, Jovanovic's
Learning Theory-JLT, Resource Based View-RBV, and Institutional Theory-IT) this paper …

Purpose This paper seeks to find factors that influence the growth intention of female-owned
small businesses in the Ghana's tourism sector. The purpose of this paper is to investigate …

Survivorship biases can generate remarkable apparent rate heterogeneities through time in
otherwise homogeneous birth-death models of phylogenies. They are a potential …

The crisis has hit the corporate sectors of the new EU member states from Central and
Eastern European countries (CEECs) more than those of most old EU member states …