Life Cycle Characteristics of Small Professional Service Firms*
研究了专业服务企业在生命周期各阶段的变化，发现销售多元化、劳动力差异化和劳动生产率在前三阶段上升、最后阶段下降，且发展效应相互依赖，对中小企业战略和咨询有参考价值。
Our study of professional services firms clearly revealed that firms change over the course of their life cycles. During the first three stages, diversification in sales, the differentiation in labor force, and the level of labor productivity increase. In the last stage, diversification in sales, the differentiation in labor force, and the level of labor productivity decrease. Development effects can be treated as interdependent. Our findings show that the effects of growth can be predicted to a certain extent. In efforts towards development, these predictions are important to business strategy, as well as to consultation with and education of SME entrepreneurs.