Purpose – This study seeks to focus on factors characterizing a pool of hyper-growth firms, trying to gather insights on how the hyper-growth firms achieve hyper-growth. Design/Methodology/Approach – A theoretical framework is proposed, borrowing well established approaches from strategic...

High-growth firms deserve increasing attention from researchers, as they account for the largest amount of new job generation and contribute to wealth and general economic development. However, although it’s easy to conceive that firms rapidly growing hundreds of times their original size are...