TY - BOOK AU - Corbett,Andrew C. AU - Katz,Jerome A. AU - McKelvie,Alexander TI - Entrepreneurial growth: individual, firm, and region T2 - Advances in entrepreneurship, firm emergence and growth, SN - 9781785600463 (electronic bk.) : AV - HB615 .E58 2015 U1 - 658.421 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Bingley, U.K. PB - Emerald KW - Business & Economics KW - Entrepreneurship KW - bisacsh KW - bicssc KW - Economic development N1 - Innovation and imitation as entry wedges that lead to firm growth / Gaylen Chandler -- A glass half full? The role of entrepreneur alternative issue interpretations on firm growth intentions / Michael Abebe, David Alvarado -- Entrepreneurial growth as a process : mechanismbased theorizing / Byungchae Jin, David A. Kirsch -- Longrun growth drivers of UK high technology firms / Josh Siepel, Marc Cowling, Alex Coad -- Ambitious entrepreneurship : a review of growth aspirations, intentions, and expectations / Julie Hermans ... [et al.] -- Sleeping gazelles : the unseen job creators? / Anders Bornhall, Sven-Olov Daunfeldt, Niklas Rudholm -- High-growth firms : stylized facts and conflicting results / Fabiana Moreno, Alex Coad -- The economic contribution of start-up firms in Germany / Stefan Schneck, Eva May-Strobl -- Looking inside the black box of growth efforts in declining small firms : the role of growth factors, planning and implementation / Richard DeMartino ... [et al.] N2 - The latest volume of Advances in entrepreneurship, firm emergence and growth examines many questions regarding growth. What decisions and designs of the entrepreneur lead to growth? What are the beginning stages of growth? Are there differences in what drives high growth entrepreneurship versus slower growth entrepreneurship? Are new firms adopting novel approaches to growth? How do growth rates and patterns change over the life of the firm? What policies, infrastructure, and capabilities are necessary to for entrepreneurial regional growth at the macro level? What are the foundational components necessary for growth across all levels of entrepreneurship? UR - https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S1074-7540201517 ER -