The primary purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between firm performance (measured as growth in value added) and the depth of the experience of the Chief Executive Officer. Based on a sample of 511 small family firms, the research results show that the relationship between firm...

In this empirical study we investigated which company characteristics and which characteristics of population demography and firm location discriminate strongly and weakly growing firms in the Flemish part of Belgium. At the same time we examined whether existing governmental growth incentives...