Managing in Different Growth Contexts
指出现有增长框架未区分不同增长情境的管理挑战，提出一个包含四种增长情境的矩阵框架，帮助不同业务单元识别自身情境、主要障碍及应对措施，基于跨国中小企业样本的纵向研究。
Existing frameworks on growth do not distinguish between the managerial challenges of different growth contexts; they place considerable emphasis on the overall quality of companies' portfolios of strategic units, but less on how different units should be managed according to the growth context they are in. The managerial challenges of generating growth in low-growth contexts are very different from those of managing growth in high-growth contexts. This article introduces a matrix framework that incorporates four growth scenarios, which firm-units can map themselves on to, and then outlines the major barriers they face in each of these scenarios as well as the actions needed to overcome them. The results are based on longitudinal research on cross-national samples of small, medium, and large organizations.