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.