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High-Growth Firms: Stylized Facts and Conflicting Results

Entrepreneurial Growth: Individual, Firm, and Region

ISBN: 978-1-78560-047-0, eISBN: 978-1-78560-046-3

Publication date: 4 August 2015

Abstract

High-growth firms (HGFs) make a considerable contribution to economic growth, and in recent years they have received increasing interest from entrepreneurship scholars. By analysing recent findings in the literature of high-growth firms, this study identifies some Stylized Facts, as well as contradictory findings, and also some unknowns regarding the determinants and internal strategies of HGFs, particularly on the persistence of their superior growth performance and the implications of recent findings for economic policy.

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

This chapter comes from Fabiana Moreno’s MSc dissertation. We are grateful to Sven-Olov Daunfeldt, Dan Johansson, Alex McKelvie and Josh Siepel for many helpful comments. Any remaining errors are ours alone.

Citation

Moreno, F. and Coad, A. (2015), "High-Growth Firms: Stylized Facts and Conflicting Results", Entrepreneurial Growth: Individual, Firm, and Region (Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, Vol. 17), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 187-230. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1074-754020150000017016

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