Handbook of Research on Scaling and High-Growth Firms
This pioneering Handbook explores the nature of scaling and high growth. It identifies specific patterns and strategies, and discusses important drivers and determinants of high growth, presenting a state-of-the-art overview of existing research and introducing crucial new insights into the field, both for academics and scaleup entrepreneurs, advisors and ecosystem stakeholders.



Chapters delve into the similarities and differences between scaling and high growth and investigate how scaling can acquire different meanings depending on the context in which it occurs. Expert authors examine the different factors involved and demonstrate how initiatives, firms and ecosystems may scale. They particularly engage with the roles of people, structure, culture, financing and ecosystems in growth and scaling, providing insights into future research directions and new methodological approaches.



Students and scholars of entrepreneurship, innovation and strategic management will greatly benefit from this informative Handbook. It is also a vital resource for policymakers and practitioners in entrepreneurship, innovation and HR.

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Handbook of Research on Scaling and High-Growth Firms
This pioneering Handbook explores the nature of scaling and high growth. It identifies specific patterns and strategies, and discusses important drivers and determinants of high growth, presenting a state-of-the-art overview of existing research and introducing crucial new insights into the field, both for academics and scaleup entrepreneurs, advisors and ecosystem stakeholders.



Chapters delve into the similarities and differences between scaling and high growth and investigate how scaling can acquire different meanings depending on the context in which it occurs. Expert authors examine the different factors involved and demonstrate how initiatives, firms and ecosystems may scale. They particularly engage with the roles of people, structure, culture, financing and ecosystems in growth and scaling, providing insights into future research directions and new methodological approaches.



Students and scholars of entrepreneurship, innovation and strategic management will greatly benefit from this informative Handbook. It is also a vital resource for policymakers and practitioners in entrepreneurship, innovation and HR.

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Handbook of Research on Scaling and High-Growth Firms

Handbook of Research on Scaling and High-Growth Firms

Handbook of Research on Scaling and High-Growth Firms

Handbook of Research on Scaling and High-Growth Firms

Overview

This pioneering Handbook explores the nature of scaling and high growth. It identifies specific patterns and strategies, and discusses important drivers and determinants of high growth, presenting a state-of-the-art overview of existing research and introducing crucial new insights into the field, both for academics and scaleup entrepreneurs, advisors and ecosystem stakeholders.



Chapters delve into the similarities and differences between scaling and high growth and investigate how scaling can acquire different meanings depending on the context in which it occurs. Expert authors examine the different factors involved and demonstrate how initiatives, firms and ecosystems may scale. They particularly engage with the roles of people, structure, culture, financing and ecosystems in growth and scaling, providing insights into future research directions and new methodological approaches.



Students and scholars of entrepreneurship, innovation and strategic management will greatly benefit from this informative Handbook. It is also a vital resource for policymakers and practitioners in entrepreneurship, innovation and HR.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781035326655
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date: 07/10/2025
Series: Research Handbooks in Business and Management series
Pages: 366
Product dimensions: 6.62(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Veroniek Collewaert, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Vlerick Business School and KU Leuven, Belgium and Justin J.P. Jansen, Professor of Corporate Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, the Netherlands

Table of Contents

Contents
Scaling and high-growth firms: an introduction 1
Veroniek Collewaert and Justin J.P. Jansen
PART I UNDERSTANDING THE MULTIFACETED NATURE OF SCALING
AND HIGH GROWTH
1 Scaling versus high growth: processes, outcomes and other considerations 15
Nicole Coviello and Anne Domurath
2 Scaling as replication 37
Dimo Ringov, Aman Asija and Jabar Torkaman
3 Scaling social impact 52
Danielle Logue, Sally Curtis, Melissa Edwards and Gillian McAllister
4 The challenge of early-stage companies sustaining high growth and
defying the gravity effect 66
Antonio Davila, Xiaobin He, Jia Ning and Carlos Shimizu
PART II SCALING STRATEGIES FOR HIGH GROWTH
5 Scaling what? Initiatives, organizations and ecosystems 96
Esther Tippmann, Tina C. Ambos, Sinéad Monaghan and Dimo Ringov
6 Scaling strategies of young entrepreneurial firms 112
Dorota Piaskowska and Irina Mihailova
7 Beyond high growth: disentangling the complexities of business scaling 138
Leona Achtenhagen, Daria Hakola and Lucia Naldi
PART III DRIVERS OF SCALING AND HIGH GROWTH
8 The scaling mindset: cultivating growth-orientated entrepreneurial
thinking 162
Euclides Major and David Urbano
9 Leading within a scaleup: leadership research and the promise of an agile
approach 188
David M. Sluss
10 Talent management in scaling firms 203
Evy Van Lancker, Mirjam Knockaert, Veroniek Collewaert and
Frederik Anseel
11 Building scalable organizational structures: an emergent actor-oriented
perspective 222
Peter K. Schou
12 Fostering a culture for scaling 242
Sarah Bohan and Jonathan Levie
13 The financing of scaling and high-growth firms 268
Tom Vanacker and Maarten Cerpentier
14 Scaling, high-growth firms and ecosystems 287
Georgios Fotopoulos
15 International expansion and global scaling strategies 313
Maksim Belitski, Jeffrey Martin, Tatiana Stettler and William Wales
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