The growth of firms a survey of theories and empirical evidence

Much progress has been made in empirical research into firm growth in recent decades due to factors such as the availability of detailed longitudinal datasets, more powerful computers and new econometric techniques. This book provides an up-to-date catalogue of empirical work, as well as a coherent...

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Main Author: Coad, Alex
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham Edward Elgar c2009
Series:New perspectives on the modern corporation
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520 |a Much progress has been made in empirical research into firm growth in recent decades due to factors such as the availability of detailed longitudinal datasets, more powerful computers and new econometric techniques. This book provides an up-to-date catalogue of empirical work, as well as a coherent theoretical structure within which these new results can be interpreted and understood. It brings together a large body of recent research on firm growth from a multidisciplinary perspective, providing an up-to-date synthesis of stylized facts and empirical regularities. Numerous empirical findings and theories of firm growth are also surveyed and compared in order to evaluate their validity 
520 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Firm size distributions -- 3. Growth rates distributions -- 4. Gibrat's Law -- 5. Profits, productivity and firm growth -- 6. Innovation and firm growth -- 7. Other determinants of firm growth -- 8. Theoretical perspectives -- 9. Growth strategies -- 10. Growth of small and large firms -- 11. Conclusion