to provide support for new and young businesses with growth potential. The Backing Winners (BW) programme differs from …

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 …

ventures, and to shed light on early internationalization's implications for organizational survival and growth. Design …'s survival and growth prospects. Research limitations/implications – The empirical results suggest that internationalization is a …

Examines the issue of growth within the small firm and considers the main influences that impinge on the evolution of … to trace the positive and negative consequences of the decisions on the subsequent growth and development of the company …

introduction of new technologies and innovations. And when a business's revenue growth stalls, only 7 percent ever go on to reclaim … growth that is better than the growth of the market overall. The only solution is to jump to another growth curve, again and …

view has been for growth to occur through expanding operations or setting up new sites owned by a single organisation … maximising the impact internally (through new activities, and more sites) to growth beyond the confines of the organisation … makers wanting to identify suitable strategies for encouraging growth and replication.  …

/implications – One of the limitations arises from the fact that the question concerning the rate of growth of the company and the family … is a “self‐reported” question that can lead to bias due to the subjective perception of growth. Other limitations arise …

The importance of reviewing the opportunities for, and the barriers to, growth are examined. Ways of measuring growth … are discussed, and five routes to business growth are outlined – market development, product and service innovation … and tools needed for each. The principles of drift and discontinuity are described in relation to fast growth, and three …

Fast‐growth companies illustrate, over a short space of time, the opportunities, threats, problems and pitfalls of … business growth. After carrying out a general survey of fast‐growing companies in Britain, the authors carried out an in …‐depth study of 30 of them. Organic growth and growth by acquisition were examined, as well as their strategic planning and …

Based on a survey of small businesses, confirms the life cycle model of growth and progression. Knowledge of the life … majority of small business respondents were in the expansion/growth stage of development. The study also confirmed the major …