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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Harvard Business ManagerIssue: 10
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PublicationThe Growth Corridor: Financial Thresholds to Optimum Firm Expansion( 2007-10-14)One of the most controversial issues in the growth literature is whether there is an optimal growth rate that maximizes firm performance. Contrary to prior research, we argue that optimum growth rates are firm-specific and, as such, cannot be established across whole populations of firms. Drawing on financial theories, we develop a model of optimum firm growth. Our research suggests that there are firm-specific corridors of optimum growth and that they may have a significant effect on firms' long term-performance. Our research shows that a company's minimum growth requirement results from shareholder's earnings expectations and that the upper boundary of growth is defined by the firm's sustainable growth rate.Type: conference paper
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PublicationThe Human Factor: Resource-Based Thresholds to Optimum Firm Growth( 2007-10-14)One of the most controversial issues in the growth literature is whether there is an optimal growth rate that maximizes firm performance. Contrary to prior research, we argue that optimum growth rates are firm-specific and, as such, cannot be established across whole populations of firms. Drawing on the literature on the resource-based view of the firm, we develop a model of optimum firm growth. Our research suggests that there are firm-specific corridors of optimum growth and that they may have a significant effect on firms' long term-performance. Thereby, a company's minimum growth requirement is determined by its amount of human resource slack and the upper boundary of growth arises out of the "Penrose effect".Type: conference paper
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PublicationThe Growth Corridor: Managerial, Financial, and Market Thresholds to Optimum Firm Growth( 2007-08-03)One of the most controversial issues in the growth literature is whether there is an optimal growth rate that maximizes firm performance. Contrary to prior research, we argue that optimum growth rates are firm-specific and, as such, cannot be established across whole populations of firms. Drawing on multiple bodies of related literature, we develop a model of optimum firm growth consisting of managerial, financial, and market thresholds. Our research suggests that there are firm-specific corridors of optimum growth and that they may have a significant effect on firms' long term-performance.Type: conference paper
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PublicationAmbidextrous Organizational Designs: Identifying Parameters of Successful Knowledge Integration( 2006-10-29)This paper builds upon the premise of knowledge integration constituting a competitive advantage. Authors have identified explorative and exploitative knowledge as being critical to corporate success and enabling above average performance. Organizational literature has proposed the model of ambidexterity in organizations, enabling the integration of the above stated, partly conflicting, types of knowledge. By identifying factors critical to the organization's ability to transfer and integrate knowledge of business units, directed towards innovation and operational efficiency respectively, we highlight benefits and drawbacks of ambidextrous organizational designs. We seek to contribute to literature which has identified features of knowledge itself and individual's abilities explaining the transferability and integratability of knowledge.Type: conference paper
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PublicationNestlé : Sustaining Growth in Mature Markets(Cengage Learning, Inc., 2008)
;Hitt, Michael A. ;Ireland, R. DuaneHoskisson, Robert E. -