Small Firm Growth

Small Firm Growth and Performance -- . . .

Alternative theories of small-firm growth: a critical review

This paper contains a review of alternative theories which have been developed in order to explain growth and change in the small manufacturing firm. Models of small-firm growth derived within the industrial economics literature are evaluated together with stage models of growth and stochastic models. Social and psychological perspectives on growth are reviewed and the spatial dimension is also...

Drawing Boundaries for Growth of the Small Firm: narrative analysis

The bulk of the research on growth of SMEs is based on purely economic approach to entrepreneurship where the entrepreneur is depicted as the heroic homo economicus aiming at profit maximization through his abilities of risk-taking, need for achievement, dominance, aggressiveness and independence. The rational is in the form of formal rationality, cost-benefit calculation that relies on financi...

Small firm-large firm relationships and the implications for small firm innovation: what do we know?

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External Factors Affecting Firm Growth: Evidence from Small Scale Manufacturing Firms in Tigray Regional State of Ethiopia

It is widely agreed that small scale enterprises (SSEs) used to play a crucial role in achieving the industrial and economic development. Though SSEs play indispensable economic role, studies are limited to analyze the external factors that affect the growth of SSEs independently. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to examine the effect of external firm factors influencing small scale ma...