High-growth firms: Not so vital after all?

Sven-Olov Daunfeldt, Daniel Halvarsson and Oana Mihaescu ()
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Daniel Halvarsson: RATIO - Näringslivets Forskningsinstitut, Postal: Box 3203, SE-103 64 Stockholm, Sweden

No 114, HUI Working Papers from HUI Research

Abstract: High-growth firms have received considerable interest recently since they create most of the new jobs in the economy. The purpose of our paper is to investigate the characteristics of high-growth firms prior to their growth period, and whether these characteristics differ across industries. Using data on a large sample of limited liability firms in Sweden for the period 2007-2010, we find that high-growth firms do not have the characteristics that we typically associate with successful firms. On the contrary, our results indicate that high-growth firms have low profits and a weak financial position. This might explain why studies have found that high-growth firms are seldom capable of sustaining their high growth rates in subsequent periods, and thus question policies that are targeted towards these companies.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; firm growth; gazelles; high-growth firms; high-impact firms; innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L11 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2015-09-21
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