1 Introduction -- 2 How Did Growth Become So Interesting? -- 3 Entrepreneurship, Growth, and High-Growth in Research and Policy -- 4 Measuring growth -- 5 Growth and profit -- 6 Conflicting agendas: Stakeholders, Growth and Profit -- 7 Do Experts Know What Growth Is? Two studies on perception --...

Introduction -- Reading a Family Business Case -- Case One: Bacardi Limited - A growing family’s firm in a consolidating industry -- Case Two: Thai-Rolls Restaurants - Growth and Delegating Control to Non-Family Management -- Case Three: Seattle Homes and the Waterman Family - Transitions in...

Constrained by the regulatory requirements of a nonprofit, researchers have been tempted to posit that commercial ventures and nonprofit social ventures share different interpretations of the contribution of growth and profit to success measures. Social ventures must nonetheless tackle...

This paper reports on preliminary findings on a study of the relationship of growth and profitability among small privately held Finnish Life Science firms. Previous research results concerning growth and profitability are mixed, ranging from strongly positive to a negative relationship. The...