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Book SynopsisThe Promises and Properties of Rapidly Growing Companies contributes to contemporary thought on so-called gazelles – high performing market players that create many jobs and promise strong welfare effects.
Moving away from the well-established idea of firm growth as a continuous process, the contributions of this edited volume add to the growing body of innovative gazelle related research in three ways: Firstly, systematically taking stock of the international gazelle growth literature and proposing a theoretical growth model, which supports the rare and temporal nature of gazelle growth. Secondly, empirically investigating German gazelles and the German gazelle policy stance, counterbalancing the current Anglo-American research bias. Thirdly, addressing lesser studied or omitted gazelle-related themes such as gazelles’ internationalization, the dark sides of gazelles’ growth, and gazelles’ corporate citizenship.
The Promises and Properties of Rapidly Growing Companies is a valuable resource for academics, managers, policy makers and civil society actors concerned with firm growth, economic development and the corporate social responsibility of rapidly growing firms.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Setting the Scene and Marking the Trail for New Directions in Gazelle Research; Florian Becker-Ritterspach, Christoph Dörrenbächer, and Matthias Tomenendal
Chapter 2. Catching up with Gazelles: A Systematic Literature Review of High Growth Antecedents; Preetam Gaikwad
Chapter 3. Spotting Gazelles in Germany. Occurrence and Distribution of High-Growth Firms in Europe’s Largest Economy; Christian Raffer and Matthias Tomenendal
Chapter 4. Leadership in High-Growth, Venture Capital-Funded Startups – A Qualitative Study of Berlin-Based Firms; Miriam Hamam and Matthias Tomenendal
Chapter 5. Gazelle Policy Conundrums: Some Prudent Avenues for Supporting Gazelles in Germany; Preetam Gaikwad and Christoph Dörrenbächer
Chapter 6. How and Why Internationalization Facilitates High Firm Growth; Florian Becker-Ritterspach
Chapter 7. Exploring the Janus-Faced Nature of Gazelles’ Corporate Citizenship: Societally Engaged Gazelles Vs. Superstar Firms; Christoph Dörrenbächer, Matthias Tomenendal, Anna-Luisa Grebe, and Julia Thielemann
Chapter 8. Taking Stock and Moving Forward: Some Concluding Remarks on Gazelle Firms and Gazelle Research; Matthias Tomenendal, Florian Becker-Ritterspach, and Christoph Dörrenbächer
