This paper examines the relationship between firm size, competitive strategy and performance, for the long-lived small … be long-lived. In a three-equation simultaneous model, performance, size and the dimensions of the competitive strategy …SLS. A trade-off is found to exist between firm size and performance. Further, we find that to attain higher equilibrium …

entrepreneurs. We found a link between performance and micro-evolutionary experience. High performers were more innovative, more …

in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimatation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …

change (e.g. ownership, technology, location, line of business etc.). This is explored in a model of firm performance using … performance is explained in terms of a count of real options exercised, measures of the level and timing of precipitators and …

This paper seeks a good measure of new business performance, and then explains this measure by various dimensions of … business strategy. Three criteria are used to create a one dimensional ordinal ranking of high, medium and low performance for … cluster analysis provides a convincing separation of a sample of new business starts into high, medium and low performance …