The MER Model of Enterprise Development: Research Cognitions for its Creation

At the entrepreneurial research level several models of the enterprise development have been created and proposed. These models can be placed into several groups, such as metamorphic models, models of crises, models of markets development, and models of structural and behavioural changes. Also MER co-workers have the intention to develop its own, generally applicable model of the enterprise development based on the research cognitions on development process of an enterprise. In the paper the scientific origins of the MER Model of Enterprise Development are presented. Selected models of enterprise development and growth as well as the chronology of MER’s intentions for developing its own model of the enterprise development are discussed in the paper. Some of the MER’s generally applicable cognitions on the enterprise development and cognitions on developmental particularities of small, medium sized and family enterprises are also presented in the paper.