Sustainable business growth in SMEs: How may decision-making guide the transition journey?
Date issued
June 23, 2014
Subjects
Business growth management Sustainability Small and medium-sized companies
Abstract
The research aims at (1) exploring new theory at the interface of business growth and sustainable development while (2) providing managerial implications for growing firms. For this end, we propose typologies of decisions to be considered by growing firms; by means of a longitudinal case study of a Swiss family-owned SME wood construction company (that is in a process of intense growth), we identify, visually represent and analyze the sequences of selected managerial decisions. The empirical analysis and theory development pave novel ways for research and companies towards sustainable business growth.
Notes
, 2015
Event name
21th EurOMA Conference
Location
Palermo, Italy
Later version
http://www.euroma2014italy.org/
Publication type
conference paper