Index

The Promises and Properties of Rapidly Growing Companies: Gazelles

ISBN: 978-1-80117-819-8, eISBN: 978-1-80117-818-1

Publication date: 24 August 2022

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(2022), "Index", Becker-Ritterspach, F., Dörrenbächer, C. and Tomenendal, M. (Ed.) The Promises and Properties of Rapidly Growing Companies: Gazelles, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 155-160. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-818-120221009

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Copyright © 2022 Florian Becker-Ritterspach, Christoph Dörrenbächer and Matthias Tomenendal


INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.

Absolute definition
, 9

Age distribution, description of
, 45–47

Airbnb
, 131

Alphabet/Google
, 131, 150

Amazon
, 130–131, 141, 150

Apple
, 150

Article identification
, 10

Attribution, 45n1

Availability

of entrepreneurial training
, 26

of finance
, 21, 115

Behavioral theory
, 8

Berlin
, 147, 149

leadership in Berlin-based startups
, 65–67

BioNTech
, 1, 123

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi)
, 78

Business
, 3

development
, 60

Business Roundtable
, 133

Capital market
, 21

Capitalism
, 148–149

Chocolate industry case
, 136–141

Classical stage models of firm growth
, 60

Cluster initiatives
, 147

and gazelles
, 51–54

Combination of absolute and relative measure
, 9

Company-related factors
, 62

Comprehensive leadership framework
, 67–70

Conscious capitalism
, 132–133

Conscious error culture
, 68

Context-specific growth factors
, 82–83

Cooper’s taxonomy of literature reviews
, 10–12

Corporate Citizenship Gazelles (CCGazelles)
, 135, 141

Corporate entrepreneurship
, 152

Corporate venturing
, 152

Correlation analysis
, 51–54

Country-level factors
, 117–118

Covid-19 virus
, 1–2

CSR concepts
, 132

Cultural dimension
, 69–70

Dark sides of high firm growth
, 4, 128

Decisive factors
, 60

Definitions

absolute
, 9

distributional
, 9

relative
, 9

Descriptive analysis
, 12

Digital strategy 2025
, 93

Digital-technology based internationalization
, 120

Distribution

of gazelles
, 3, 46, 48, 51

of leadership tasks
, 64

of reviewed articles
, 15

Distributional definition
, 9

Dynamic environments
, 55

EBSCO database
, 10

Economic profitability
, 132

Economics
, 8

Efficiency seeking
, 114

Emerging industries
, 43

Empirical context
, 4

Employee
, 18

dimension
, 68–69

motivation
, 68–69

Employment effects at gazelles
, 129

Enabling and constraining circumstances
, 117

“Energy Supply”
, 51

Enterprises with a social purpose, 135n4

Entrepreneur
, 16–17

factors
, 26

Entrepreneurial leadership challenges
, 64–65

Entrepreneurial nature
, 25

Entrepreneurial orientation (EO)
, 25–26

Entrepreneurial role models
, 26

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
, 12

Entrepreneurship
, 97

research
, 3

Environmental, Social, & Governance criteria (ESG criteria)
, 152

Environmental growth factors
, 62

Equity
, 81

European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT)
, 136

Execution
, 10

Exports
, 122

External environment influences growth
, 22

External factors
, 16, 20–22, 26, 27

External growth
, 130

Factors
, 62

Fair trade, 137n6

Family-led businesses
, 41

Fast-growing companies
, 2

Fast-growing firms in Germany
, 39–40

FD Gazellen
, 127

FDI
, 122

Feedback effects
, 27–29

Finance
, 18

availability of
, 21, 115

Financial support
, 98

Financing phases
, 61

Fink, Larry (CEO of Blackrock)
, 134

Firm-level factors
, 20, 119–121

Firm(s)
, 17–18

characteristics
, 26

factors
, 26

growth
, 8

growth of
, 22

performance
, 27

rapidly growing
, 78

small
, 78

Foreign direct investment (FDI)
, 109

Further research
, 121–122, 150–152

Gazelle entrepreneurs
, 16

“Gazelle firms” (see High-growth firms (HGFs))

Gazelle growth
, 8, 9–10, 28

Gazelle growth antecedents
, 9

Gazelle internationalization
, 108

Gazelle policy
, 81–83

approaches
, 81

conundrums
, 79–81

German gazelle policy stance
, 92–99

international growth firm-oriented policy approach
, 84–85

jobs
, 78

policy support schemes for gazelles
, 87–90

in practice
, 83, 86, 92

Gazelle preliminary identifiers
, 83

Gazelle research
, 1–3

new directions in
, 3–5

Gazelle-specific policy approach
, 79

Gazelles
, 8, 61, 141

academic concepts
, 133

gazelle growth matrix
, 134–136

in Germany
, 39–40

in light of business literature
, 128–129

positive image of
, 127–128

problems and complications of gazelles’ growth
, 129–132

properties and impediments of purpose driven gazelles
, 136–140

reconciling purpose and profit in gazelle growth
, 132

summing up on growth prospects
, 141

turning gazelles into CC-or SuperCCGazelles
, 141–142

German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs
, 40–41

German gazelles
, 39–40

age distribution, description of
, 45–47

avenues for supporting gazelles in Germany
, 97–99

correlation analysis
, 51–54

description of
, 45

empirical analysis of
, 44–45

former findings on
, 43–44

gazelle-specific policies in Germany
, 94–96

introducing studies
, 40–41

literature review
, 40

overview of
, 92–93

policy stance
, 92

regional distribution, description of
, 47–49

sector distribution, description of
, 49–51

size and age of
, 41–42

spatial distribution of
, 42–43

German SME strategy
, 93

Germany
, 148

fast-growing firms in
, 39–40

public policy in
, 93

Gibrat’s law
, 12

of proportionate effect
, 8

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)
, 97

Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN)
, 78

Governmental support schemes
, 92

Greiner’s seminal model
, 62

Growth

develops
, 61

of firms
, 22

growth in general and in entrepreneurial, high-growth firms
, 62–65

leadership and
, 70–71

motivation
, 25–26

types
, 61

Growth antecedents
, 12

Growth factors
, 2

context-specific growth factors
, 82–83

environmental growth factors
, 62

Growth firm-oriented policy
, 78

Heterogeneous factors
, 82–83

High-growth firms (HGFs)
, 2, 8, 12, 59–60, 78, 107–108, 147

determinants of
, 107–109, 110–112

entrepreneur factors
, 26

external factors
, 20–22, 27

feedback effects
, 27–29

findings
, 12

firm factors
, 26

gazelle growth
, 9–10

growth motivation and entrepreneurial orientation
, 25–26

identified antecedents of gazelle growth
, 23–24

identifying
, 9

internal factors
, 16–20

internationalization contributes to
, 116–122

leadership and growth in general and in entrepreneurial, high-growth firms
, 62–65

methodology
, 10

research directions in relation to internationalization as determinant of
, 122

research methods
, 14–16

review protocol
, 13

SLR strategy and process
, 10–12

strategy factors
, 27

High-growth firms
, 41

High-growth startups, leadership in
, 65–67

High-Tech Gründerfond (HTGF)
, 95, 98

High-tech strategy 2025
, 93

Human resource management (HRM)
, 19, 20

Humility
, 68

“ICT”
, 51–54

Imports
, 122

import-related growth effects
, 116

Individual-level factors
, 121–122

Industrial & Corporate Change
, 12

Industrial organization (IO)
, 27

Industry-level factors
, 118–119

Industry-related factors
, 21

Innovation
, 19

Innovative technology-oriented firms
, 97

Input-oriented variables
, 61

Internal factors
, 16, 62

entrepreneur
, 16–17

firm
, 17–18

strategy
, 18–20

Internal leadership
, 149

International business (IB)
, 113

Internationalization
, 19–20, 147

circumstances of fast growth through
, 123–124

contributes to HGF
, 116–122

as determinant for accelerated growth
, 109–113

determinants of high firm growth
, 107–109, 110–112

facilitate fast growth
, 113–116

facilitates fast growth
, 123

future research direction
, 122

literature review
, 109

research directions in relation to internationalization as determinant of HGF
, 122

Iterative screening
, 12

Jobs
, 78

creation
, 129

Journal of Small Business & Enterprise Development
, 12

Journals
, 12

Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)
, 95

“Labor Monitoring and Remediation System”
, 139

Leadership
, 62

activity
, 60

comprehensive leadership framework
, 67–70

entrepreneurial leadership challenges
, 64–65

and growth
, 70–71

and growth in general and in entrepreneurial, high-growth firms
, 62

high-growth firms
, 59–60

leadership in Berlin-based, high-growth, VC-funded startups
, 65–67

principles
, 67–68

systems
, 3

transformational leadership as leading style in high-growth firms
, 63–64

VC-funded startups in pursuit of innovation and growth
, 60–62

Lifecycle models
, 62

Management
, 8

Market

knowledge
, 81

market-driven internationalization
, 115

seeking
, 114

McKinsey
, 134

Meta/Facebook
, 131, 141, 150

Ministry of Economic Affairs
, 149

Multidimensionality of firm growth
, 9

MyChoco
, 136–140

Narrative literature reviews
, 10

National Reform Program of Germany
, 93

Natural resource seeking
, 114

Networking
, 92

New research directions
, 3

Non-technological innovation
, 22

Orgaizational dimension
, 70

Output-oriented variables
, 61

Penrose’s theory of growth
, 8

performance orientation
, 4, 69–70

Person-related factors
, 62

Pfizer
, 123

Planning
, 10

Policy

agenda
, 78

instruments
, 78

makers
, 69

measures
, 83

policy-relevant information
, 79

Policy recommendations
, 82

Population ecology
, 8

Preselected from publication
, 9

Productivity growth
, 129

Profit in gazelle growth
, 132–141

Psychology
, 8

Public policy in Germany
, 93

Purpose and profit in gazelle growth
, 132

Qualitative growth of gazelle
, 61, 134–136

Qualitative methods
, 14–16

Qualitative norms
, 83

Quality

of education
, 26

of gazelles’ growth
, 131

Quantitative growth of gazelle
, 61, 134–136

Quantitative methods
, 14–16

Regional clusters
, 43

Regional distribution, description of
, 47–49

Relative definition
, 9

Reporting
, 10

Research delimitation criteria
, 12

Research methods
, 14–15

Resources
, 26

Review protocol
, 10, 13

Sector distribution, description of
, 49–51

Selection criteria
, 80, 86, 97–98

Shared leadership
, 64

Shared value approach
, 132

Small Business Economics
, 12

Small firms
, 78, 97

Social accounting and auditing (SAA), 135n3

Social entrepreneurship
, 133

Social interactions
, 3

Social market economy
, 92–93

“Social Responsibilities of the Businessman”
, 132

Social responsibility
, 132

Societally engaged gazelles
, 127–142

Sociology
, 8

Soft support measures
, 95, 98

Spatial distribution of German gazelles
, 42–43

Stakeholders
, 132

Startup
, 60–61

Statistical regularity
, 8

Strategic asset seeking
, 114

Strategic management
, 27

Strategy
, 18–20, 26

factors
, 27

Super Corporate Citizenship Gazelles (Super-CCGazelles)
, 150

SuperCCGazelles
, 141

Superstar firm
, 60, 131, 141, 150

Superstar Gazelles
, 135, 141

Support programs
, 91

Sustainable growth
, 70

Systematic literature review method (SLR method)
, 10

flowchart
, 14

strategy and process
, 10–12

Technological development level
, 21

Technology Fast 50 contest
, 128

Technology-related knowledge
, 81

Thematic analysis
, 12

Theoretical gazelle growth model
, 10

Theoretical model of gazelle growth
, 25

Third Bureaucracy Relief Act
, 93

Transformational leadership as leading style in high-growth firms
, 63–64

“Trigger points” concept
, 94

Trust
, 68

Two-stage reporting method
, 12

Uber
, 131, 141

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
, 134

Value-creation potential
, 60

Values dimension
, 67–68

Venture capital (VC)
, 21, 60–61, 147

financing
, 81

leadership in VC-funded startups
, 65–67

Venture capital-funded startups
, 65–67

Venture capitalists
, 71

Young Innovative Companies (YICs)
, 12