The Evolution of Business Interpretative Theory, History and Firm Growth

Firm growth. This concept has interested researchers for generations. Economists have sought to predict and measure firm growth using a host of different variables, while strategic management scholars depict growth as the result of clever analyses and rational resource exploitation. Entrepreneurship...

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Main Author: Korsager, Ellen Molgaard (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2019
Series:Routledge international studies in business history
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Summary:Firm growth. This concept has interested researchers for generations. Economists have sought to predict and measure firm growth using a host of different variables, while strategic management scholars depict growth as the result of clever analyses and rational resource exploitation. Entrepreneurship scholars - ever engrossed by successful start-ups - have pondered why growth sometimes comes fast and sometimes never at all, while the field of business history has given countless examples of growing firms in a range of different settings. Yet despite research across fields, our knowledge of how growth in a firm actually comes about is limited and we still know little about the proces
Physical Description:xii, 193 pages : 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references
ISBN:9781138301245