Firmy wzrostowe - gospodarcze znaczenie i problemy identyfikacji

Abstract

Growth companies. i.e. those capable of considerable size enlargement within a thin period of time, represent a major source of the net increase in employment and in innovations. The important practical and methodological problem is how to identify such companies. The paper presents two ways of differentiating growth businesses: based on the ex-post identification criteria and based on the growth factors discovered in the empirical research. The latter may represent a foundation for an ex-ante analysis, i.e. for diagnosing a growth potential of a selected business.