The Alchemy of Entrepreneurial Business Growth

Mark Hart

Chapter 3 in Ready for Change?, 2012, pp 53-72 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Understanding business growth, and particularly the growth of small firms, has been the subject of academic enquiry for over 40 years. Yet it still creates debate and controversy as academics and policymakers wrestle with a rich, complex evidence base. This chapter represents a personal journey through this maze from a starting point in 1978 when, as a rather naïve and woefully ill-equipped doctoral student, I commenced my first study of small firm growth and of the entrepreneurial process in the city of Belfast. The motivation was simple. The city was in social, economic and political turmoil, buffeted by the influences of a global recession and resultant lack of inward investment. Job creation was a priority and the emerging evidence suggested that small firms were major providers.

Keywords: Small Business; Small Firm; Employment Growth; Firm Growth; Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137008404_4

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