Research into firm growth has been accumulating at a terrific pace, and Alex Coad s survey
of this multifaceted field provides a detailed, comprehensive overview of the latest …

We survey the phenomenon of the growth of firms drawing on literature from economics,
management and sociology. We begin with a review of empirical" stylised facts" before …

The crisis has hit the corporate sectors of the new EU member states from Central and
Eastern European countries (CEECs) more than those of most old EU member states …

We introduce a new model to address three methodological biases in research on new
venture growth and survival. The model offers entrepreneurship scholars numerous benefits …

Using 30 years of data from all for-profit firms incorporated in Belgium, we show that
business dynamism and entrepreneurship have been declining over recent decades. This …

This study analyses persistence in growth rates for a data set of manufacturing firms of all
sizes. Previous quantile autoregressions of firm growth rates show that extreme growth …

This paper provides an in-depth study of how incremental innovation, a ubiquitous factor,
affects the sustainability of performance of small-and large-sized firms differently …

This paper explores firm growth rate distribution in a Gibrat's Law context. It is novel in two
respects. First, rather than limiting the analysis to a focus on the conditional mean, we …

Recent empirical evidence based on extensive databases shows that firm size distributions
(FSD) vary with the sample. This paper analyses the effect of sample size on the FSD of …

We explore the impact of research and development (R&D) on sales growth rate with firm-
specific factors under the Korean pharmaceutical industry structure using listed Korea …