This study explores heterogeneity in how firms have achieved high growth. Using the population of all firms in Sweden with more than 20 employees in existence in 1996 (n= 11,748), we analyzed their development for each year of the previous 10 years (1987 to 1996). From this population of all...

This article offers a lexicon of mash-ups to describe Bengt Johannisson's research contributions: <italic>Otherpreneur</italic>: A person who is not the primary ‘founder’ of an organization, yet plays an important role in the creation of the organization: a ‘significant other’; <italic>Interactment</italic>: Actions that...

In this introductory article, we explain the purpose of this special issue that is set up as a <italic>Festschrift</italic> in honour of the (editorial) work of Bengt Johannisson. Inspired by Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the special issue is structured along six essays that are both...