organizational characteristics and strategic leadership qualities associated with acquisitive growth through “absorption” and … “diversification”. A study of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT) organizational growth strategies from 1920 to … 1997 reveals that senior managers adopt the rational decision‐making model when organizational growth through acquisition …

Successful growth companies represent the future. Their opportunistic, customer‐responsive styles and operating … opportunities, threats, problems and pitfalls attached to dramatic business growth. A new set of rules which would guide companies … through the necessary and predictable transitions of growth are sought. It is hoped that chief executives and strategic …

among managers to achieve its growth targets, which involved moving away from being the custodians of a traditional brand …

A new form of business innovation, a response to the current challenges to growth initiatives, is being pioneered by a …. Such new‐growth businesses focus on growing new value by discovering new forms of demand. For example, in the mid‐1990s …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether investors value the future growth from acquisitions and the … findings are equally applicable to other situations. Findings imply that investors underrate the growth from new acquisitions … of future growth rates should be carefully considered in any equity valuation of a firm with current or past acquisitions …

country growth and have the potential to transform economies and societies. The extent to which such transformation takes …