Understanding the Myth of High Growth Firms The Theory of the Greater Fool /

• Main Authors: Brännback, Malin (Author), Carsrud, Alan L. (Author), Kiviluoto, Niklas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Business,
• Subjects: Business.; Entrepreneurship.; Leadership.; Organization.; Planning.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

In this volume, the authors challenge some long held assumptions about entrepreneurial firms held by academics, public policy makers, investors and even entrepreneurs themselves. The first is assumption is that growth is what really differentiates an entrepreneurial firm from a small business. The s...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 How Did Growth Become So Interesting?
• 3 Entrepreneurship, Growth, and High-Growth in Research and Policy
• 4 Measuring growth
• 5 Growth and profit
• 6 Conflicting agendas: Stakeholders, Growth and Profit
• 7 Do Experts Know What Growth Is? Two studies on perception
• 8 Discussion and recommendations.