Growing profitable or growing from profits: Putting the horse in front of the cart?

Per Davidsson, Paul Steffens, Jason Fitzsimmons

Journal of Business Venturing, 2009. DOI 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2008.04.003

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 1 replication of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 successful.

Questioning the Growth Dogma: A Replication Study, Ben-Hafaïedh & Hamelin (2022). Outcome recorded: successful. We replicate and extend this seminal study to a sample covering close to 40% of all EU small and medium firms. We confirm their results and show that they hold over a longer time span and even exhibit a path dependency-type effect to the initial strategy (growth-oriented or profit-focused). We also View paper