“Business Growth†—Do Practitioners and Scholars Really Talk about the Same Thing?

Leona Achtenhagen, Lucia Naldi and Leif Melin

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2010, vol. 34, issue 2, 289-316

Abstract: The current growth literature has stalled over which measures to use in empirical studies, causing a fragmented theory base. This paper claims that there is a third issue that further curbs efforts in developing a better understanding of business growth. Based on a thorough literature review, a quantitative, and a qualitative study, we find that academic scholars and entrepreneurs do not talk about the same thing when they say “business growth.†For practitioners, growth is a more complex phenomenon—with a strong emphasis on internal development—which differs from the simplified conceptualization of growth used in empirical studies.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2010.00376.x

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