Entrepreneurs and Growth : An Option, Obligation or Obsession?
Saukkonen, J. (2018). Entrepreneurs and Growth : An Option, Obligation or Obsession?. In L. Mura (Ed.), Entrepreneurship : Development Tendencies and Empirical Approach (pp. 3-33). InTech. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.70527
Tekijät
Toimittajat
Päivämäärä
2018Tekijänoikeudet
© the Author, 2018.
“Growth” as a word carries a positive tone in it; human beings grow and mature, gaining new knowledge and resources, and so do companies. Growth, however, has never been for all. In competitive markets, some grow and others do not—or grow at slower pace than others. Furthermore, growth is a process that strains the capabilities and resources of an individual, company, and its acting entrepreneurs to their extreme. Growth means also learning and leaving behind something learned of possessed before. Growth disrupts the history and path of a single company and its entrepreneur. The text synthetizes the scattered literature in growth and entrepreneurship. A case study shows how growth is viewed in an entrepreneurial company. The author shows how companies can be categorized to different sub-segments based on their growth opportunities, urge to grow, and growth aspirations. The typical enablers and hindrances of growth hindrances get introduced. The chapter underlines that for some companies, growth is one of the strategic options, whereas to some, it is more of an internal and external obligation. Despite the existence of multiple stage-based models, growth is an individual path and no model should be taken in a law-like manner.
...
Julkaisija
InTechEmojulkaisun ISBN
978-953-51-3760-3Kuuluu julkaisuun
Entrepreneurship : Development Tendencies and Empirical Approach
Alkuperäislähde
https://www.intechopen.com/books/entrepreneurship-development-tendencies-and-empirical-approach/entrepreneurs-and-growth-an-option-obligation-or-obsessionJulkaisu tutkimustietojärjestelmässä
https://converis.jyu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/28786834
Metadata
Näytä kaikki kuvailutiedotKokoelmat
- Kauppakorkeakoulu [1340]
Lisenssi
Samankaltainen aineisto
Näytetään aineistoja, joilla on samankaltainen nimeke tai asiasanat.
-
Early-Stage Business Failures of Opportunity-Driven Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Finland: The Role of Liability of Foreignness
Némethová, Kristína (2022)Maahanmuuttajayrittäjien perustamat yritykset ovat todennäköisempiä epäonnistumaan, koska ne ovat epäedullisessa asemassa syntyperäisten perustamiin yrityksiin nähden. Kuten monikansalliset organisaatiot operoidessaan ... -
Intuition and entrepreneurs : a phenomenological study of managerial intuition of Finnish family entrepreneurs
Kakkonen, Marja-Liisa (University of Jyväskylä, 2006)Business environments have changed rapidly especially during the last decades. Nowadays there are many unpredictable and uncertain factors in managing businesses. In addition, rational thinking and decision-making based ... -
An investigation into the opportunity recognition process of immigrant entrepreneurs in Finland
Maharramov, Elmar (2020)Immigrant Entrepreneurship has been a considerably important topic in entrepreneurship research. The significance of the area of immigrant entrepreneurship as a research area is more prominent in ... -
Firm growth in the Finnish software industry : a longitudinal study of growth aspirations and growth outcomes
Huiso, May (2023)This master's thesis uses motivational theories and a quantitative, longitudinal approach to explore the relationship between growth aspirations and firm growth outcomes in the Finnish Software Industry. Specifically, it ... -
The professional growth of an accounting agency entrepreneur
Tenhunen, Marja-Liisa (University of Jyväskylä, 2002)The present study set out to produce new knowledge to enhance scientific thinking and pragmatic social innovations. The interest of knowledge has been both theoretical and pragmatical. The informative innovation was the ...
Ellei toisin mainittu, julkisesti saatavilla olevia JYX-metatietoja (poislukien tiivistelmät) saa vapaasti uudelleenkäyttää CC0-lisenssillä.