This paper offers many new insights into the processes of firm growth by applying a vector autoregression (VAR) model … to longitudinal panel data on French manufacturing firms. We observe the co-evolution of key variables such as growth of … employment, sales, gross operating surplus and labour productivity growth. Preliminary results suggest that employment growth is …

, refers to the principle of "growth of the fitter" to explain investment-cash flow sensitivities as the workings of a healthy … not a helpful starting point for empirical studies into firm growth. one caricature of neoclassical theory could be …

microfoundations of economic growth by relating innovation to sales growth at the firm-level, for incumbent firms in four «complex … technology» sectors. The average firm, which experiences only modest growth, may grow for a number of reasons that may or may not … be related to «innovativeness». However, given that firms are heterogeneous and that growth rates distributions are …

Serial correlation in annual growth rates carries a lot of information on growth processes - it allows us to directly … observe that small firms typically are subject to negative correlation of growth rates, whereas larger firms display positive … correlation. Furthermore, we find that those small firms that experience extreme positive or negative growth in any one year are …

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 discussing theoretical contributions. Firm growth is characterized … determinants of firm growth has had a limited success. We also observe that theoretical propositions concerning the growth of firms …

paper seeks to determine to what extent these instuments contribute to job creation looking at the growth rate in the number … intensity of use of the various measures on changes in the number of employees differ according to the establishment growth rate … compared to the ones whose total number of employees is fewer than eleven, whereas the estimated correlation between growth and …

, the author uses data from a survey conducted among the staff of Portuguese universities, mainly among those who hold …

issues both regulators and taxi operators have to address in each city. Our survey was addressed the city residents of Paris …