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8. Discussion and Recommendations

verfasst von : Malin Brännback, Alan L. Carsrud, Niklas Kiviluoto

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As we near the end of our journey through the mythical world of growth it is time to recap what we have covered. We started out this book by reflecting on our own experiences over a quarter of a century of personally researching, consulting, teaching, and helping to start hundreds of new ventures. As we showed in some of our examples, the firms we worked with have been in industries as diverse as airlines, accounting, biotechnology, information technology, personal products, wineries, and food establishments. Hopefully, after you have read this book you have come to understand why we could have subtitled this book in search of the black swan or hunting for unicorns, yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus, or even Grimm’s fairy tales and myths.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Do Experts Know What Growth is? Two Studies on Perception
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It is acknowledged that in some occurrences high growth may translate into high success, and is hence per definition not a black swan. However, two things are suggested: (I) these occurrences are rare, and for the purpose of creating an accumulated flow of knowledge (Kuhn 1970), they are unexplainable and nonreplicable and (II) through a contagion effect, this event has distorted the growth and profitability nexus and created a dominating progrowth instead of a proprofitability view. This view is apparent in entrepreneurship research, among policy makers, and among other stakeholder groups.
 
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These data were extracted from the Orbis database by Tommi Pulkkinen and Pekka Stenholm from Turku School of Economics.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Discussion and Recommendations
verfasst von
Malin Brännback
Alan L. Carsrud
Niklas Kiviluoto
Copyright-Jahr
2014
Verlag
Springer New York
Buch
Understanding the Myth of High Growth Firms

Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-9456-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4614-9457-7

Copyright-Jahr: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9457-7_8

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