دانلود کتاب Scale-ups and High-Growth Firms: Theory, Definitions, and Measurement (SpringerBriefs in Business)

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Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Authors
Abbreviations
1 Introduction and Motivation
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Early Work Focused on Anecdotes and Case Studies
1.3 Scope of the Book
1.4 Why a Book on Scale-Ups?
1.5 Overview of This Book
References
2 Firm Growth, and High-Growth Firms
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Empirical Definition of Firm Size and Firm Growth
2.3 High-Growth Firms: The Eurostat-OECD (2007) Definition
References
3 Stages of Growth Models
3.1 Stages of Growth Models and Their Discontents
3.2 Scaling up as a Stage of Growth
3.3 Changes in the Structure of Growing Firms
3.4 Born Scale-ups?
3.5 Can Scale-ups Have More Than One Product?
3.6 Blitz-Scaling vs the Lean Startup Perspective on Scaling up
References
4 Eight Propositions About Scale-ups
4.1 A Scale-up Is a Concept Born of Practitioners, Not Academics
4.2 Scale-ups Are Not Just in the IT Sector, But May Be Enabled by IT
4.3 A Scale-up Is a Qualitative Concept from a “Stages of Growth” Model
4.4 Scaling up Involves Structural Transformation
4.5 A Scale-up Does Not Exist Anywhere in a Pure Form
4.6 Scale-ups Differ by Degree, Not by Kind
4.7 Too Many Exceptions
4.8 There May Never Be a Standardized Empirical Definition of Scale-up
References
5 Theoretical Definition of a Scale-up
5.1 Firm Growth or Scaling: Reinventing the Wheel?
5.2 Previous Definitions: A Critical Discussion
5.3 Five Suggestions for How a Scale-up Should Be Defined
5.4 Discussion of Well-Known Cases
5.4.1 Is Uber a Scale-up?
5.4.2 Is Apple a Scale-up?
5.4.3 Was Obama’s 2012 Campaign a Scale-up?
5.5 Our Theoretical Definition of a Scale-up
References
6 Empirical Definition of a Scale-up
6.1 Scaling up Is More Than Just Growth, or Not?
6.2 Four Desirable Properties of an Empirical Definition
6.3 Empirical Definition of a Scale-up, in 2 Steps
6.3.1 Step 1: Identify the Set of HGFS
6.3.2 Step 2: Scale-ups as a Subset of HGFs
References
7 In Search of Scale-ups: Empirical Analysis
7.1 Data Description
7.2 Results
7.2.1 Frequency of HGFs
7.2.2 How Many HGFs Satisfy the Conditions for Being Scale-ups?
References
8 Concluding Remarks
8.1 Concluding Remarks
References