The 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.

About the Author

Florian Becker-Ritterspach is a Professor of Organization at the HTW Berlin (Faculty of Business and Law), Germany.

Christoph Doerrenbacher is a Professor of Organizational Design and Behaviour in International Business at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (Faculty of Business and Economics), Germany.

Matthias Tomenendal is a Professor of Management and Consulting at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (Faculty of Business and Economics), Germany, and acts as the Director of the Berlin Professional School.

Book Information
ISBN 9781801178198
Author Florian Becker-Ritterspach
Format Hardback
Page Count 176
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 365g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm