This paper focuses on factors that affect the growth of manufacturing firms in Germany. It addresses which factors might be needful and which factors might be helpful for the different growth stages of these firms. Most firms face turning points in their life course, and thus do not grow...

With the increasing competitive importance of scientific innovations associated with the new economy it has become critical to understand the dynamics of its' firm growth during this early and potentially critical stage of development. This study analyses the relationship between firm size and...

The present paper deals with the question whether 'Gibrat's law' is applicable to firms founded between 1989 and 1996 within the Western German manufacturing sector or not. The underlying assumption is that size of a firm has no influence on its growth. Growth is rather determined by a process...

[...] Das Ziel dieser Studie ist eine Untersuchung der zwei unterschiedlichen Wachstumsdimensionen landwirtschaftliche Nutzfläche und landwirtschaftlicher Umsatz sowie die Bestimmung der Faktoren, die das Wachstum - oder die Stagnation - auf Ökobetrieben beeinflussen Wir analysieren einen...

This paper investigates whether the economic factors that are related to firm growth in the literature also determine the development path of firms. This means that we test which economic factors possess the ability to remain effective for a longer period of time. We examine three variables:...