management practices exert on firm growth. By exploiting unique information from a large sample of Italian manufacturing … both positively associated with a significant turnover, employment and labor productivity growth premium. However, their … joint adoption does not necessarily sum the two effects. In particular, performance-based rewards boost growth of non …

High-Growth Enterprises (HGEs) have a large economic impact, but are notoriously hard to predict. Previous research has … linked high-growth episodes to the configuration of lumpy indivisible resources inside firms, such that high capacity … utilisation levels might stimulate future growth. We theorize that firms reaching critically high capacity utilisation levels …

. Furthermore, we identify firms with high growth potential. Using survey data, we investigate the barriers to investment activities …This paper investigates the links between alternative growth phases of firms and barriers to financing and investment …: high growth (HGEs), stable and declining enterprises. We find that during the phase of high growth, firms are on average …

demographics (creation and growth) of EU companies operating in new/knowledge-intensive industries, especially Small and Medium …, favouring the transition towards more knowledge-intensive activities (smart growth) and in contributing to the overall economic … growth objectives and more and better jobs. But which kind of companies should be helped by policy? And how? This paper …

comparison to the past, if a selection of top R&D-investing SMEs were assumed to be on a fast growth track while the top R …, building there from an unbalanced panel. Scenarios were developed by distinguishing SMEs' assumed growth paths vs. that of … longer-term horizon of the assumed fast growth track than the simulated 10 years, or small firms' growth figures which even …