Rediscovering profitability in entrepreneurship: evidence from Finnish high-technology start-ups
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Autor: Kiviluoto, Niklas
Jahr: 2011
1 INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Research background.....................................................................................................................3
1.1.1 Interest in the high-growth firm.......................................................................................................3
1.1.2 High-growth as success.....................................................................................................................5
1.1.3 Research questions............................................................................................................................5
1.2 Research context.............................................................................................................................6
1.3 Outline of the thesis........................................................................................................................8
2 DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESEARCH APPROACH.......................................................................10
2.1 Positivism, interpretivism, and constructivism........................................................................11
2.1.1 Assessing research quality..............................................................................................................12
2.2 Research approach.........................................................................................................................13
3 DEFINING ENTREPRENEURSHIP......................................................................................................16
3.1 THE DEFINITION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP ADOPTED............................................................................17
3.2 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PROFITS......................................................................................................19
3.2.1 Defining profits...............................................................................................................................19
3.2.2 The role of profits............................................................................................................................21
4 THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH......................23
4.1 schumpeter s frame-breaking perspective.................................................................................23
4.2 penrose and the growth of firms................................................................................................24
4.3 klrzner s incremental innovation perspective.......................................................................25
4.4 Concluding remarks......................................................................................................................27
5 GROWTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP.......................................................................................................30
5.1 GROWTH AS AN OUTCOME..................................................................................................................31
5.1.1 Measuring growth at individual-level and firm-level.....................................................................32
5.1.2 The multidimensionality of growth.................................................................................................33
5.1.3 Comparing growth measures..........................................................................................................36
5.2 THE OUTCOME OF GROWTH.................................................................................................................41
5.2.1 The growth and profitability nexus in theory.................................................................................41
5.2.2 The growth and profitability nexus in practice...............................................................................44
5.3 THE STATE OF GROWTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH....................................................................47
5.3.1 A lack of accumulated knowledge generation..................................................................................47
5.3.2 The fragmentation of the field.........................................................................................................48
5.3.3 Calls for holistic research................................................................................................................49
5.4 Literature summary........................................................................................................................49
6 STUDY I - GROWTH AND PROFITABILITY IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH...........51
6.1 previous literature reviews..........................................................................................................52
6.2 Selection of journals.....................................................................................................................53
6.3 Selection of articles......................................................................................................................53
6.4 Overall characteristics of the reviewed articles.................................................................56
6.5 Growth and profitability.............................................................................................................62
6.5.1 Sample characteristics.....................................................................................................................66
6.5.2 Performance measures.....................................................................................................................67
6.5.3 Growth and profitability relationship.............................................................................................67
6.6 Performance in privately-held high-technology firms.......................................................68
6.7 discussion of findings....................................................................................................................73
7 STUDY II- GROWTH AND PROFITABILITY IN FINNISH HIGH-TECH START-UPS..........77
7.1 Data....................................................................................................................................................78
7.1.1 Measures of growth and profitability..............................................................................................79
7.1.2 Parametric and non-parametric statistical tests.............................................................................83
7.2 Results II A- Growth and profitability relationship for start-up firms...........................85
7.2.1 Firms founded 1995-1997...............................................................................................................S5
7.2.2 Firms founded 1998-2000...............................................................................................................85
7.2.3 Firms founded 2001-2003...............................................................................................................86
7.2.4 High-profitability versus low-profitability positions......................................................................86
73 Results II B-Exploratory financial analysis............................................................................87
7.3.1 Relationship between performance variables...................................................................................87
7.3.2 Performance differences between bio and IT...................................................................................92
7.3.3 Performance differences between age-groups..................................................................................95
7.4 Discussion of findings....................................................................................................................97
8 STUDY III- GROWTH AND PROFITABILITY FROM A STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVE ..100
8.1 GROWTH AND PROFITABILITY IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP policies......................................................100
8.2 Growth and profitability in media...........................................................................................101
8.3 Stakeholder views on growth and profitability..................................................................102
8.4 Methodological approach........................................................................................................104
8.4.1 Selection of respondents................................................................................................................105
8.4.2 The interview process....................................................................................................................106
8.5 Findings............................................................................................................................................107
8.5.1 Structure of findings section.........................................................................................................108
8.5.2 Performance..................................................................................................................................HO
8.5.3 Planning........................................................................................................................................114
5.5.4 Growth and profitability matrix...................................................................................................116
8.5.5 Pro growth arguments..................................................................................................................LI9
8.5.6 Pro profitability arguments...........................................................................................................122
8.6 Discussion of findings..................................................................................................................128
9 CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS.............................................................................................133
9.1 Implications for entrepreneurship research.........................................................................I36
9.2 Implications for entrepreneurs.................................................................................................140
9.3 Implications for policy makers..................................................................................................143
9.4 Limitations and suggestions for further research..............................................................144
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................................148
Appendix I-Articles used in literature review....................................................................................I65
Appendix II- Financial measures used in study II.................................................................................169
Appendix III- Translated interview manual........................................................................................I74
SVENSK SAMMANFATTNING..................................................................................................................176
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