Growth Development Paths of Firms-A Study of Smaller Businesses

Brenner, Thomas; Schimke, Antje

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“…This illustrates the processual aspects of growth where, rather than a linear and strategically planned growth process, growth is portrayed as an endless range of connected decisions and actions following on from each other. This is expressed by Brenner and Schimke (2015) as informal, situational and disjointed kind of growth, which becomes difficult to capture or model (Storey 2011) and elusive for pinpointing in research (Anderson 2015). This inter connected facets of growth are demonstrated in our cases through funding and networking, practices contributing to the growth of the firm.…”

Section: Repertoire 2 Growth As a Complex Processmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…They found practitioners understood the multidimensionality of growth. Brenner and Schimke (2015) had concluded that growth is often informal, situational and disjointed. We believe that the current state of the art in small firm growth suggests that growth is complex and multidimensional.…”

Section: The Problem and Processes Of Small Firm Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The central theme in this repertoire is the complexity of growth (Brenner and Schimke 2015;Wright and Stigliani 2013;Macpherson and Holt 2007); the interconnectedness of different aspects of growing. "If we increase this we must increase that (Peter).…”

Section: Repertoire 2 Growth As a Complex Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Growing a small firm; experiences and managing difficult processes

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Anderson

2020

Int Entrep Manag J

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Contrary to a simple model of small firm growth where increased inputs produce greater outputs, we consider growth is a complex and difficult process. Accordingly, the paper is concerned with how small firms grow, especially how they make sense of the growth process. We collected narratives of the experiences of small firm growth in an extended case study to draw out how growth is understood and managed. We saw how owners became entangled in the process of growing, especially where a change in one aspect led to problems in other dimensions of growth. Their narratives were about trying to make sense, and give some sense to the complexity of growth and some direction to what they should manage. We identified a repertoire of narrative forms: Growth is understood through output indicators, growth is treated as the internal development of the firm and finally, growth is taken to be inevitable-a necessity to which the firm has to conform. These illustrate how growth can be understood as processes of growing, bound up in the context, created in space and time, and contingent on how growth is understood and experienced. Far from a smooth trajectory, enacting growth reflects the experience of the moment, it is shaped by reactions rather than strategy and it is messy rather than ordered. This study contributes to the literature by complementing the functionalist and output oriented view by understanding firm growth as a social phenomenon constructed and reconstructed in the interactions between people and experiences of context.

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Section: Repertoire 2 Growth As a Complex Processmentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: The Problem and Processes Of Small Firm Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Growing a small firm; experiences and managing difficult processes

Tunberg

Anderson

2020

Int Entrep Manag J

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“…Moen, Heggeseth, and Lome (2015) find that a firm's international orientation that is closely interrelated with growth motivation is a consistent predictor of growth in revenue and exports. A recent paper by Brenner and Schimke (2015) examines whether firm characteristics that are related to firm growth (firm size, innovation effort, and export share) are also related to the development path of firms. They show that the determinants of growth paths are not the same as the determinants of firm growth at one point in time.…”

Section: The Established Characteristics Of Growing and Fast-growing mentioning

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Characteristics of firms with different types of growth: The case of Slovenia

2016

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The authors of this paper develop a new typology of growing and fast-growing firms, based on consistent application of the microeconomic theory of the firm, and thereby addressing some limitations of existing studies that investigate growing and fast-growing firms. A rich database available for the entire population of business entities in Slovenia enables the authors to use the proposed typology and investigate key demographic and other characteristics of firms with different types of growth in the 2007-12 period. The authors conclude that the case of Slovenia and the analysis of firm characteristics confirm the adequacy of the proposed typology.

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“…Firm growth and its reason constitute an important and well-studied topic in economic literature (Brenner and Schimke 2015). Particularly, McKelvie and Wiklund (2010, 280) identify three research streams (growth as an outcome, the outcome of growth and the growth process) and three basic modes of growth (organic, acquisitive and hybrid).…”

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Growth Development Paths of Firms-A Study of Smaller Businesses

Cited by 36 publications

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Growing a small firm; experiences and managing difficult processes

Growing a small firm; experiences and managing difficult processes

Characteristics of firms with different types of growth: The case of Slovenia

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