Per Davidsson, Director, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Jönköping International Business School, Sweden and Johan Wiklund, The Al Berg Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, US

‘This collection of articles by an internationally recognized team of authors is a welcome addition to the literature on firm growth. The authors, singly and together, have previously made important contributions with regard to frameworks for understanding growth, as well as cutting-edge empirical research on the actual growth process. In this volume, the authors bring previous research up-to-date, providing a critical look at what has been published in the last decade and offering new theoretically informed insights in how and why firms grow.’

• Contents:Introduction Per Davidsson and Johan WiklundPART I: EXPLAINING WHY AND HOW MUCH FIRMS GROW 1. Building an Integrative Model of Small Business GrowthJohan Wiklund, Holger Patzelt and Dean A. Shepherd 2. Aspiring for, and Achieving Growth: The Moderating Role of Resources and OpportunitiesJohan Wiklund and Dean A. Shepherd 3. The Effect of Small Business Managers’ Growth Motivation on Firm Growth: A Longitudinal StudyFrédéric Delmar and Johan Wiklund PART II: CHANGING THE FIRM GROWTH RESEARCH AGENDA 4. Are We Comparing Apples with Apples or Apples with Oranges? Appropriateness of Knowledge Accumulation Across Growth StudiesDean A. Shepherd and Johan Wiklund 5. Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of Growth RateAlexander McKelvie and Johan Wiklund 6. Towards an Integrative Framework for Future Research on Small Firm GrowthPer Davidsson, Leona Achtenhagen and Lucia Naldi PART III: A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE GROWTH–PROFIT RELATIONSHIP7. Growing Profitable or Growing from Profits: Putting the Horse in Front of the Cart?Per Davidsson, Paul Steffens and Jason Fitzsimmons 8. Performance Configurations Over Time: Implications for Growth-and Profit-oriented StrategiesPaul Steffens, Per Davidsson and Jason Fitzsimmons PART IV: THEORY-DRIVEN RESEARCH ON SPECIFIC FORMS OF GROWTH9. Asset Specificity and Behavioral Uncertainty as Moderators of the Sales Growth–Employment Growth Relationship in Emerging VenturesGaylen N. Chandler, Alexander McKelvie and Per Davidsson 10. Organic and Acquisitive Growth: Re‐examining, Testing and Extending Penrose’s Growth TheoryAndy Lockett, Johan Wiklund, Per Davidsson and Sourafel Girma Index

Per Davidsson, Director, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Jönköping International Business School, Sweden and Johan Wiklund, The Al Berg Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, US

‘This collection of articles by an internationally recognized team of authors is a welcome addition to the literature on firm growth. The authors, singly and together, have previously made important contributions with regard to frameworks for understanding growth, as well as cutting-edge empirical research on the actual growth process. In this volume, the authors bring previous research up-to-date, providing a critical look at what has been published in the last decade and offering new theoretically informed insights in how and why firms grow.’

• Contents:Introduction Per Davidsson and Johan WiklundPART I: EXPLAINING WHY AND HOW MUCH FIRMS GROW 1. Building an Integrative Model of Small Business GrowthJohan Wiklund, Holger Patzelt and Dean A. Shepherd 2. Aspiring for, and Achieving Growth: The Moderating Role of Resources and OpportunitiesJohan Wiklund and Dean A. Shepherd 3. The Effect of Small Business Managers’ Growth Motivation on Firm Growth: A Longitudinal StudyFrédéric Delmar and Johan Wiklund PART II: CHANGING THE FIRM GROWTH RESEARCH AGENDA 4. Are We Comparing Apples with Apples or Apples with Oranges? Appropriateness of Knowledge Accumulation Across Growth StudiesDean A. Shepherd and Johan Wiklund 5. Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of Growth RateAlexander McKelvie and Johan Wiklund 6. Towards an Integrative Framework for Future Research on Small Firm GrowthPer Davidsson, Leona Achtenhagen and Lucia Naldi PART III: A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE GROWTH–PROFIT RELATIONSHIP7. Growing Profitable or Growing from Profits: Putting the Horse in Front of the Cart?Per Davidsson, Paul Steffens and Jason Fitzsimmons 8. Performance Configurations Over Time: Implications for Growth-and Profit-oriented StrategiesPaul Steffens, Per Davidsson and Jason Fitzsimmons PART IV: THEORY-DRIVEN RESEARCH ON SPECIFIC FORMS OF GROWTH9. Asset Specificity and Behavioral Uncertainty as Moderators of the Sales Growth–Employment Growth Relationship in Emerging VenturesGaylen N. Chandler, Alexander McKelvie and Per Davidsson 10. Organic and Acquisitive Growth: Re‐examining, Testing and Extending Penrose’s Growth TheoryAndy Lockett, Johan Wiklund, Per Davidsson and Sourafel Girma Index

Per Davidsson, Director, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Jönköping International Business School, Sweden and Johan Wiklund, The Al Berg Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, US

‘This collection of articles by an internationally recognized team of authors is a welcome addition to the literature on firm growth. The authors, singly and together, have previously made important contributions with regard to frameworks for understanding growth, as well as cutting-edge empirical research on the actual growth process. In this volume, the authors bring previous research up-to-date, providing a critical look at what has been published in the last decade and offering new theoretically informed insights in how and why firms grow.’

• Contents:Introduction Per Davidsson and Johan WiklundPART I: EXPLAINING WHY AND HOW MUCH FIRMS GROW 1. Building an Integrative Model of Small Business GrowthJohan Wiklund, Holger Patzelt and Dean A. Shepherd 2. Aspiring for, and Achieving Growth: The Moderating Role of Resources and OpportunitiesJohan Wiklund and Dean A. Shepherd 3. The Effect of Small Business Managers’ Growth Motivation on Firm Growth: A Longitudinal StudyFrédéric Delmar and Johan Wiklund PART II: CHANGING THE FIRM GROWTH RESEARCH AGENDA 4. Are We Comparing Apples with Apples or Apples with Oranges? Appropriateness of Knowledge Accumulation Across Growth StudiesDean A. Shepherd and Johan Wiklund 5. Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of Growth RateAlexander McKelvie and Johan Wiklund 6. Towards an Integrative Framework for Future Research on Small Firm GrowthPer Davidsson, Leona Achtenhagen and Lucia Naldi PART III: A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE GROWTH–PROFIT RELATIONSHIP7. Growing Profitable or Growing from Profits: Putting the Horse in Front of the Cart?Per Davidsson, Paul Steffens and Jason Fitzsimmons 8. Performance Configurations Over Time: Implications for Growth-and Profit-oriented StrategiesPaul Steffens, Per Davidsson and Jason Fitzsimmons PART IV: THEORY-DRIVEN RESEARCH ON SPECIFIC FORMS OF GROWTH9. Asset Specificity and Behavioral Uncertainty as Moderators of the Sales Growth–Employment Growth Relationship in Emerging VenturesGaylen N. Chandler, Alexander McKelvie and Per Davidsson 10. Organic and Acquisitive Growth: Re‐examining, Testing and Extending Penrose’s Growth TheoryAndy Lockett, Johan Wiklund, Per Davidsson and Sourafel Girma Index