Why Do Some Companies Grow While Others Fail?
In short: Why some companies grow while others fail: what research says about experimentation, chance, governance and declining business dynamism, and which cases it still cannot explain.
A 2:09 short film in the series “Why Did…?”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: U.S. Census Bureau, “Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)”; OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), STI Working Paper series, “High‑Growth Firms and Employment”; EconPapers (RePEc), listing an NBER Working Paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., “EconPapers: Innovation, Productivity Dispersion, and Productivity Growth”; Journal of Evolutionary Economics (Springer Nature), “Convergence of corporate growth and Gibrat’s law in European electricity generation sectors - Journal of Evolutionary Economics”; OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), “Declining business dynamism”; Springer Nature (Review of Managerial Science journal), “Why do firms fail? A new view on bankruptcy from the angle of top management team heterogeneity - Review of Managerial Science”.
Sources used in this film
- U.S. Census Bureau — Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) · View →
- OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), STI Working Paper series — High‑Growth Firms and Employment · View →
- EconPapers (RePEc), listing an NBER Working Paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. — EconPapers: Innovation, Productivity Dispersion, and Productivity Growth · View →
- Journal of Evolutionary Economics (Springer Nature) — Convergence of corporate growth and Gibrat’s law in European electricity generation sectors - Journal of Evolutionary Economics · View →
- OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) — Declining business dynamism · View →
- Springer Nature (Review of Managerial Science journal) — Why do firms fail? A new view on bankruptcy from the angle of top management team heterogeneity - Review of Managerial Science · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: U.S. Census Bureau: Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)
- Also: OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), STI Working Paper series: High‑Growth Firms and Employment
- Also: EconPapers (RePEc), listing an NBER Working Paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.: EconPapers: Innovation, Productivity Dispersion, and Productivity Growth
- Also: Journal of Evolutionary Economics (Springer Nature): Convergence of corporate growth and Gibrat’s law in European electricity generation sectors - Journal of Evolutionary Economics
- Also: OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development): Declining business dynamism
- Also: Springer Nature (Review of Managerial Science journal): Why do firms fail? A new view on bankruptcy from the angle of top management team heterogeneity - Review of Managerial Science
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