Availability of internal and external financing sources has an impact on firms' investments and growth. Even profitable … difficulties on firms' investment, performance, and growth during normal periods and periods of external shocks using a regression …

This paper uses a very large sample of French SMEs to study growth of family owned firms. Firms range from total … solvency. The results show that firms with greater family control are prone to exhibit lower rates of sales growth than … feasible, given financial performance. Because firm growth is limited not by financing constraints but by family …

research has added reliability, enhanced power and ease of utilization. Thus, both make a vital contribution to growth. While …

This paper uses a very large sample of French SMEs to study growth of small businesses. Firms are distinguished … sales growth than feasible, given firm internal financing resources (ie they adopt a conservative growth behavior). Because … firm growth is limited not by financing constraints but by family-related incentives to restrict firm size, increasing firm …

less flexible ownership structure does not exploit all their growth potential. …

Purpose – This paper aims to identify and empirically test whether growth preparedness and success perceptions are … of strategy types. Findings – This paper provides evidence that although a majority of SBOs are not preparing for growth …, many still perceive their business as successful. Further, the empirical data demonstrate that growth preparedness and …