Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of Growth Rate
指出企业成长研究进展缓慢的主因是过早关注“成长多少”而忽视“如何成长”，建议转向有机增长、并购增长和混合增长三种模式，并为未来研究提供议程。
The development of firm growth research has been notably slow. In this paper, we argue that a major reason for this lack of development is the impatience of researchers to prematurely address the question of “how much?” before adequately providing answers to the question “how?” On the basis of an extensive review of the literature, we suggest how growth research can advance by changing focus to growth mode (organic, acquisition, hybrid). Toward this end, we provide a research agenda that helps establish the types of questions that growth researchers can ask within this new focus.