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In Search of Scale-ups: Empirical Analysis

In: Scale-ups and High-Growth Firms

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  • Alex Coad

    (Waseda University)

  • Anders Bornhäll

    (Institute of Retail Economics)

  • Sven-Olov Daunfeldt

    (Confederation of Swedish Enterprise)

  • Alexander McKelvie

    (Syracuse University)

Abstract

This chapter takes our empirical definition of scale-up to the data: Swedish register data on over 700,000 firms for the period 1997–2001. 1.28% of firms meet the HGF criteria. Among these HGFs, it is rare for a firm to satisfy all 7 scale-up conditions (in line with the idea of ‘too many exceptions’). 25.89% of HGFs satisfy 5 or more of the 7 conditions for scale-ups, while 60.75% of HGFs satisfy 4 out of 7 conditions. Our analysis highlighted how missing values can cause problems when investigating which HGFs are scale-ups.

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  • Alex Coad & Anders Bornhäll & Sven-Olov Daunfeldt & Alexander McKelvie, 2024. "In Search of Scale-ups: Empirical Analysis," SpringerBriefs in Business, in: Scale-ups and High-Growth Firms, chapter 0, pages 53-58, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:spbrcp:978-981-97-1379-0_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-1379-0_7
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