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Growth persistence and profile robustness of high-growth firms

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  • Yannick Dillen
  • Eddy Laveren
  • Rudy Martens
  • Sven De Vocht
  • Eric Van Imschoot

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This paper analyses the persistence of high business growth and the robustness of the profile characteristics of high-growth firms (HGFs). By having company information for all firms that are active in Flanders (i.e., the northern part of Belgium) for a ten-year period (i.e., from 2000 to 2009), different subsets of HGFs were identified for different time periods. Several questions arise, such as whether the firms that were qualified as an HGF in a certain period were able to maintain the high growth rates for multiple (consecutive) periods and whether the profile characteristics of the HGF-subsets are stable over time. It appeared that the majority of the firms that were identified as an HGF in the period 2000-2009 were 'one-shot HGFs'. Notwithstanding the rapidly changing composition of the subsets, the profile features of the HGFs in the subset remained relatively constant over time.

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  • Yannick Dillen & Eddy Laveren & Rudy Martens & Sven De Vocht & Eric Van Imschoot, 2014. "Growth persistence and profile robustness of high-growth firms," International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 6(4), pages 299-330.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijeven:v:6:y:2014:i:4:p:299-330
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    1. Guilherme Fowler A. Monteiro & Adriana Bruscato Bortoluzzo & Pedro Lipkin P. Rosa, 2021. "Is there heterogeneity among persistent high‐growth firms?," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(4), pages 2272-2292, December.
    2. Jelle Schepers & Pieter Vandekerkhof & Yannick Dillen, 2021. "The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Growth-Oriented SMEs: Building Entrepreneurial Resilience," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(16), pages 1-20, August.
    3. Erhardt, Eva, 2017. "Who persistently creates jobs? Absolute versus relative high-growth firms," MPRA Paper 79307, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Erhardt, Eva Christine, 2018. "Firm performance after high growth: A comparison of absolute and relative growth measures," MPRA Paper 88077, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Erhardt, Eva, 2018. "Does high growth persist? A focus on growth formulas and the influence of firm exits," VfS Annual Conference 2018 (Freiburg, Breisgau): Digital Economy 181595, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    6. Eva Christine Erhardt, 2021. "Measuring the persistence of high firm growth: choices and consequences," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 56(1), pages 451-478, January.

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