This paper is concerned with the profitable external growth and proposes an empirical model outlining the major determinants of its success. The results of analysis of the unique sample of strategic growth acquisitions completed from 2000 to 2010 suggest that the success of transaction is...

Four consecutive years of more than a thousand Spanish companies from different economic sectors are analyzed to determine the influence of intellectual capital on the business growth strategy. One of the purposes of this work is to establish a classification criterion of the strategic behaviour...

The current paper complements and extends traditional Penrosean theories of firm growth by examining how a (supplier) firm’s relational embeddedness with its portfolio of existing buyers affects its business growth. Our theorizing rests on the foundation that a firm’s business growth stems...