“Business Growth”—Do Practitioners and Scholars Really Talk about the Same Thing?
研究发现，学者和企业家对“业务增长”的理解不同：企业家认为增长更复杂且强调内部发展，而学者在实证研究中使用的概念更简化，这阻碍了增长理论的发展。
The current growth literature has stalled over which measures to use in empirical studies, causing a fragmented theory base. This paper claims that there is a third issue that further curbs efforts in developing a better understanding of business growth. Based on a thorough literature review, a quantitative, and a qualitative study, we find that academic scholars and entrepreneurs do not talk about the same thing when they say “business growth.” For practitioners, growth is a more complex phenomenon—with a strong emphasis on internal development—which differs from the simplified conceptualization of growth used in empirical studies.