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Growth, Diversification, and Business Group Formation in Entrepreneurial Firms

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Donato Iacobucci ()
Peter Rosa ()

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Recent empirical research has demonstrated that the growth process of entrepreneurial firms is frequently achieved through the formation of business groups: i.e. a set of companies run by the same entrepreneur (or entrepreneurial team). This has been hypothesised as result of a growth process by diversification of the original activity. This entrepreneurial growth process offers an alternative explanation for the formation of business Groups, than that arising from managerial efficiency and expediency. The main aim of the article is to explore group formation through entrepreneurial diversification using a sample of high growth entrepreneurial firms. The analysis demonstrates that the running of a group of companies by the same entrepreneur is not only induced by the geographical extension of their operation and by diversification but also by the differentiation policy aimed at serving different market segments within the same sector. This seems to contrast with the diversification policy and organisational setting of large, managerial firms Copyright Springer 2005

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Small Business Economics.

Volume (Year): 25 (2005)
Issue (Month): 1 (08)
Pages: 65-82
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Keywords: business groups; diversification; entrepreneurship; habitual entrepreneurs; L2; M13;

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  1. Jacquemin, Alexis P & Berry, Charles H, 1979. "Entropy Measure of Diversification and Corporate Growth," Journal of Industrial Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 27(4), pages 359-69, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Giulio Cainelli & Donato Iacobucci & Enrica Morganti, 2004. "Spatial agglomeration and business groups: new evidence from Italian industrial districts," ERSA conference papers ersa04p402, European Regional Science Association. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Calabrese Giuseppe, 2008. "Best performance-best practice nelle imprese manifatturiere italiane," CERIS Working Paper 200808, Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth - Moncalieri (TO). [Downloadable!]
  3. A. Arrighetti & A. Ninni, 2009. "Firm size and growth opportunities: a survey," Economics Department Working Papers 2009-EP05, Department of Economics, Parma University (Italy). [Downloadable!]
  4. Matthias Deschryvere, 2008. "High Growth Firms and Job Creation in Finland," Discussion Papers 1144, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy. [Downloadable!]
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