What Makes Firms Grow in Developing Countries? An Extension of the Resource-Based Theory of Firm Growth and Empirical Analysis

This paper examines what makes firms grow using the investment climate survey that was conducted by the World Bank in eight developing countries. We rely on the resource-based theory of the firm that was proposed by Penrose (1959) where firm growth depends on the kinds and amount of the diverse reso...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lee, Keun, Temesgen, Tilahun
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4675