Entrepreneurial Growth in Finnish SMEs - a qualitative exploration into the business practitioner's perception

Rita Klapper ()
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Rita Klapper: Pôle Entrepreneuriat et Innovation - Rouen Business School - Rouen Business School

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Abstract: This paper investigates the various ways in which Finnish entrepreneurs perceive company growth. The data include an MBA alumni survey, a Linked In sub-group and semi-structured interviews with entrepreneurs. The method is a mix of quantitative and qualitative thematic content analysis, providing an understanding of growth embedded in entrepreneurs' own experience. This was found to be holistically framed, with a discourse far removed from the abstractions of economics and commerce as conventionally conceived. Rather the entrepreneurs had a strong sense of collective responsibility to their group and issues of personal development figured highly. The early results underline a model of entrepreneurship as culturally embedded.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; Finland; growth; collective; culture; embedded (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-10-14
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Published in 2nd annual ICSB Global Entrepreneurship, Oct 2011, Washington, United States

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