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