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SME growth trajectories, transitions and board role portfolios: A critical review and integrative model

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: This article presents a novel framework integrating a dynamic states approach to firm growth and a portfolio perspective of board roles. In our framework, we highlight four typical firm growth states aligned with primary board roles to guide firms effectively through the transitions associated with each state to reach a new equilibrium. The particular contribution of our framework is that it takes small and medium firm (SME) heterogeneity into account while capturing the dynamic nature of these states which are reached along non-linear, non-sequential and non-deterministic transitional pathways, as well as incorporating reverse and counterintuitive trajectories between states.

Source: International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship

DOI: 10.1177/0266242616680280

Authors: Coral Ingley, Wafa Khlif, Lotfi Karoui

Institutions: Auckland University of Technology, EM Normandie Business School

Language: English

Topic: Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2581384716