The Promises and Properties of Rapidly Growing Companies
Gazelles
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The Promises and Properties of Rapidly Growing Companies contributes to contemporary thought on so-called gazelles – high performing market players that create many jobs and promise strong welfare effects.
Moving away from the well-established idea of firm growth as a continuous process, the contributions of this edited volume add to the growing body of innovative gazelle related research in three ways: Firstly, systematically taking stock of the international gazelle growth literature and proposing a theoretical growth model, which supports the rare and temporal nature of gazelle growth. Secondly, empirically investigating German gazelles and the German gazelle policy stance, counterbalancing the current Anglo-American research bias. Thirdly, addressing lesser studied or omitted gazelle-related themes such as gazelles’ internationalization, the dark sides of gazelles’ growth, and gazelles’ corporate citizenship.
The Promises and Properties of Rapidly Growing Companies is a valuable resource for academics, managers, policy makers and civil society actors concerned with firm growth, economic development and the corporate social responsibility of rapidly growing firms.
Chapter 1. Setting the Scene and Marking the Trail for New Directions in Gazelle Research; Florian Becker-Ritterspach, Christoph Dörrenbächer, and Matthias Tomenendal
- Chapter 2. Catching up with Gazelles: A Systematic Literature Review of High Growth Antecedents; Preetam Gaikwad
- Chapter 3. Spotting Gazelles in Germany. Occurrence and Distribution of High-Growth Firms in Europe’s Largest Economy; Christian Raffer and Matthias Tomenendal
- Chapter 4. Leadership in High-Growth, Venture Capital-Funded Startups – A Qualitative Study of Berlin-Based Firms; Miriam Hamam and Matthias Tomenendal
- Chapter 5. Gazelle Policy Conundrums: Some Prudent Avenues for Supporting Gazelles in Germany; Preetam Gaikwad and Christoph Dörrenbächer
- Chapter 6. How and Why Internationalization Facilitates High Firm Growth; Florian Becker-Ritterspach
- Chapter 7. Exploring the Janus-Faced Nature of Gazelles’ Corporate Citizenship: Societally Engaged Gazelles Vs. Superstar Firms; Christoph Dörrenbächer, Matthias Tomenendal, Anna-Luisa Grebe, and Julia Thielemann
- Chapter 8. Taking Stock and Moving Forward: Some Concluding Remarks on Gazelle Firms and Gazelle Research; Matthias Tomenendal, Florian Becker-Ritterspach, and Christoph Dörrenbächer
Florian Becker-Ritterspach is a Professor of Organization at the HTW Berlin (Faculty of Business and Law), Germany.
Christoph Dörrenbächer is a Professor of Organizational Design and Behaviour in International Business at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (Faculty of Business and Economics), Germany.
Matthias Tomenendal is a Professor of Management and Consulting at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (Faculty of Business and Economics), Germany, and acts as the Director of the Berlin Professional School.