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Journal articles on the topic "Fast-growth firms"

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Wadho, Waqar, and Azam Chaudhry. "Identifying and Understanding High Growth Firms in the Pakistani Textile and Apparel Sectors." LAHORE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 24, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 73–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.35536/lje.2019.v24.i2.a4.

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In this article, we investigate the distinguishing features of fast growing firms in the Pakistani textile and apparel sectors. We find that the distribution of firm growth- both in terms of employment and sales - is very heavily skewed toward the right-tail, confirming earlier findings that firm growth is generated by a very small number of firms. We found that small and young companies grow faster and generate higher employment. We also used various indicators of a firm’s innovation behavior and found that more innovative firms grow faster. Our results suggest that it is not the possession of individual attributes, but rather a combination of particular firm attributes that defines fast growing firms. Specifically, we found that the blend of being small, young and innovative explains the fast growth in firms. on overall these companies also create more jobs.
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Oluwole Binuyo, Adekunle, Hillary Ekpe, and Babatunde Oloyede Binuyo. "Innovative strategies and firm growth: evidence from selected fast moving consumer goods firms in Lagos state, Nigeria." Problems and Perspectives in Management 17, no. 2 (June 6, 2019): 313–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.17(2).2019.24.

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Critical to the sustainability and continuous success of every organization is the performance concept. Hence, the cardinal goal of every organization is to achieve sustainable progressive performance for their organization. Several factors have been found to contribute to the performance of an organization. While empirical evidence indicated that innovativeness is one of the major determinants of organizational performance, many fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) were slow in their demonstration of innovative capability and it has been noted that the performance of these companies has not been impressive possibly due to the slow pace of innovativeness in the industry. This study thus investigated the effect of innovative strategies on the growth of selected FMCG firms in Lagos state, Nigeria. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population comprised 1,337 top and middle level management staff of four notable players in the FMCG industry in the state (Honeywell flower mills Plc, Dangote flower mills, Unilever Nigeria Plc, and Cadbury Nigeria Plc). Through proportionate stratified random sampling technique, 400 out of 1,337 were sampled for the study. Four hundred copies of a validated questionnaire with Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient ranging from 0.731 to 0.956 were administered to the sample with a response rate of 84.25%. Data were analyzed using both descriptive, as well as inferential statistics. Finding revealed that innovative strategies had a significant effect on growth of FMCG firms in Lagos state, Nigeria (R2 = 0.724, β = 0.887, t = 29.663, P ≤ 0.05). The study recommends that FMCG firms management need to initiate policies that will enhance innovativeness possibly through creation and proper funding of the research and development department to effectively drive growth of FMCG firms.
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Mirvahedi, Saeed, Sussie C. Morrish, and Dmitri Pletnev. "Fast-growth firms and successful environmental entrepreneurs in emerging countries." E3S Web of Conferences 258 (2021): 06019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202125806019.

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Growth is a broad area and many aspect of growth is under research especially in smaller and entrepreneurial firms. Many research show that growth and fast growth happens randomly and is not a continuous phenomenon. In this study, we investigate how successful entrepreneurs grow their firms. The investigation involved ten fast-growth firm cases in Iran -as an emerging economy- in different industries. The research is qualitative and data gathered through semi structured in-depth interviews. After coding, all interviews are mapped. By using Decision Explorer® all causal maps are analyzed. Analysis show that fast growth is a direct outcome of entrepreneurial marketing (EM) practices and indirectly influenced by serendipity. Serendipity is an element observed in many firms that generally occurs at the initial phase of firm formation and could bring great opportunities but indirectly associated with fast-growth. However, serendipity itself is not important but the ability to recognize and exploit opportunity is a crucial activity that entrepreneurs are really great at it. The ability of entrepreneurs to exploit serendipitous opportunities and use entrepreneurial marketing practices in terms of innovative products and activities/process lead to fast growth. Other elements, such as network, innovation, and perseverance, could either directly or indirectly influence growth.
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Tajnikar, Maks, Nina Ponikvar, and Petra Dosenovic-Bonca. "Characteristics of firms with different types of growth: The case of Slovenia." Ekonomski anali 61, no. 208 (2016): 27–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/eka1608027t.

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The authors of this paper develop a new typology of growing and fast-growing firms, based on consistent application of the microeconomic theory of the firm, and thereby addressing some limitations of existing studies that investigate growing and fast-growing firms. A rich database available for the entire population of business entities in Slovenia enables the authors to use the proposed typology and investigate key demographic and other characteristics of firms with different types of growth in the 2007-12 period. The authors conclude that the case of Slovenia and the analysis of firm characteristics confirm the adequacy of the proposed typology.
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Sliwinski, Rafal, and Magdalena Sliwinska. "Growth and internationalization of fast growing firms." Journal of East European Management Studies 21, no. 2 (2016): 231–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0949-6181-2016-2-231.

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Gu, Zheng, and Luyuan Gao. "A Multivariate Model for Predicting Business Failures of Hospitality Firms." Tourism and Hospitality Research 2, no. 1 (April 2000): 37–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/146735840000200108.

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This study estimated a multivariate discriminant model for predicting hospitality firm bankruptcy. The model has a 93 per cent accuracy in classifying the in-sample firms into bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms. The model suggests that unprofitable firms burdened with debts, short-term debts in particular, are more likely to be candidates for bankruptcy. Fast expansion and sales growth of those firms may increase their bankruptcy likelihood.
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DOŠENOVIĆ BONČA, Petra, Maks TAJNIKAR, Nina PONIKVAR, and Barbara MÖREC. "FIRM GROWTH TYPES AND KEY MACROECONOMIC AGGREGATES THROUGH THE ECONOMIC CYCLE." Journal of Business Economics and Management 19, no. 1 (May 3, 2018): 138–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/16111699.2017.1422798.

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The paper investigates the role and impact of different groups of firms according to their growth type on macroeconomic aggregates at various stages of the economic cycle based on the entire population of firms in Slovenia. The applied classification of growing and fast-growing firms is based on microeconomic theory. Results exhibit that despite larger year-to-year fluctuations, firms with growth towards their long-term equilibrium contributed most to macroeconomic aggregates, i.e. employment, capital and sales, especially in times of economic prosperity. Firms with growth that shifts them closer to their short-term equilibrium proved to be more important primarily for assuring employment stability. Furthermore, we show that using single growth measures prevents us from identifying all growing firms and capturing the true contribution of particular growth groups of firms to studied macroeconomic aggregates. The paper provides both theoretical and empirical information for managers for designing different types of firm growth and enables policy makers to adopt adequate industrial policy measures.
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Santoleri, Pietro. "Innovation and job creation in (high-growth) new firms." Industrial and Corporate Change 29, no. 3 (November 26, 2019): 731–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtz059.

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Abstract Recent research has underscored the prominent role played by a small fraction of fast-growing new firms in contributing to aggregate net employment growth. While it is typically assumed that those firms experience this superior performance thanks to their ability in undertaking technological innovation, few empirical studies have explicitly addressed this issue. This article examines the innovation-employment nexus for startups using the Kauffman Firm Survey, a unique longitudinal dataset tracking a single cohort of US firms founded in 2004. Results based on fixed effects panel quantile regressions indicate an overall positive but heterogeneous effect of innovation activities on the conditional employment growth distribution. More in detail, the findings reveal that both research and development and patents have a positive association with employment growth especially for those new firms experiencing high growth.
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Tan Swee Lin, Caroline, and Kosmas X. Smyrnios. "Customer‐Value Based Marketing Activities in Fast‐Growth Firms." Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship 9, no. 1 (July 2007): 67–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14715200780001340.

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Ganguly, Anirban, Chitresh Kumar, Garima Saxena, and Asim Talukdar. "Firms’ Reputation for Innovation: Role of Marketing Capability, Innovation Capability, and Knowledge Sharing." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 19, no. 02 (April 14, 2020): 2050004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649220500045.

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In the current day competitive business environment, continuous innovation has become a central strategy for most firms. The ability to achieve continuous innovation has been observed to facilitate the growth and profitability of a firm. Innovation can not only lead to new customers and market segments, but it also enables firms to develop a reputation for being innovative. In today’s world of fast-changing preferences and trends, such a reputation for a firm is likely to considerably add to its brand equity and growth prospects. The current study investigates the role of knowledge sharing, innovation capability, and marketing capability in a firm’s reputation for innovation. A set of hypotheses were developed to analyse these relationships using structural equation modelling (SEM). The data were collected from seventy-five (75) senior executives spanning across five different industries in the Indian service and manufacturing sector. The findings of the study indicated that a firm’s reputation for innovation is influenced by factors like innovation capability, which in turn is an outcome of tacit and explicit knowledge sharing within the firm. Further, marketing capability plays a positively moderating role between innovation capability and the firm’s reputation for innovation. Overall, the study highlights that the innovation capability of a firm is a result of tacit and explicit knowledge sharing inside the firm. However, such innovation capability alone is not sufficient for a firm to be viewed as “innovative”. The firm must develop and use appropriate marketing and knowledge management capabilities to highlight such an innovative nature of the firm in order to be viewed as innovative in the market.
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Mirvahedi, Saeed. "An investigation into the role of serendipity, effectuation, and entrepreneurial marketing in fast-growth entrepreneurial firms." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9645.

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This thesis investigates the role of serendipity, effectuation, and entrepreneurial marketing in fast-growth entrepreneurial firms. Using a qualitative paradigm, multiple case studies and cross-country approaches, the study aims to explore the interrelationships among these constructs and answer the main research question relating to their contribution to fast growth. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twenty fast-growth firms in New Zealand and Iran from a range of sectors, and causal mapping method was used to map out the growth trajectory of each firm. Causal maps enable the researcher to find in what manner the firms achieved fast growth and what factors contributed to their growth. The results suggest that serendipity is a precursor to fast growth and occurs generally at the start of a growth process. Serendipity is likely to take place at any stage of a firm life cycle, but more likely at the early stage of formation, alongside networks, pure luck, perseverance, environment and high-quality products and services. In addition to reviewing the three patterns of serendipity that are well-known in accidental scientific discoveries, we identify and introduce “Entrepreneurial Serendipity” as another distinctive pattern in entrepreneurship, whereby entrepreneurs look for any opportunity to start a business and explore an appropriate opportunity that comes along. Further analyses illustrate that entrepreneurs believe in the occurrence of serendipity in their day-to-day business; however, it indirectly contributes to fast growth mediated by two important elements: effectual thinking and entrepreneurial marketing. The causal maps demonstrate that the combination of effectuation and entrepreneurial marketing directly and indirectly lead to fast growth. A majority of fast-growth firms start business effectuatively, often with limited resources and relying on whatever available means they possess, but over time, they shift to causation logic with more planning and strategic decisions. Starting from an effectuation base, the participants had an entrepreneurial mindset at the outset and used specific tactics, such as an adapted marketing mix, relying on networks, innovation, ensuring a presence in the market, pro-activeness, and market intelligence through personal observation. These entrepreneurial marketing practices have led to fast growth and were widely employed by entrepreneurs, irrespective of firm size and age. The thesis sheds some light on how fast-growth firms achieve considerable growth by looking at the relationship of serendipitous opportunity exploration and effectuative exploitation using entrepreneurial marketing. It contributes to the literature on serendipity and its development in entrepreneurship, and identifies serendipitous sources of opportunity in fast growing firms. The study confirms that effectuation logic and entrepreneurial marketing are instruments by which entrepreneurs exploit new opportunities and market products or services. Entrepreneurs from both New Zealand and Iran share similar growth trajectories, however, some Iranian entrepreneurs believe that spiritual values are important in exploring new opportunities and achieving fast growth. Finally, the study confirms that growth may start with a serendipitous exploration and continues with effectuation logic and entrepreneurial marketing.
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Bhalla, Ajay. "The application of strategic management schools in fast growth UK family firms : the influence of ethnicity." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2000. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/1190/.

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This research addresses the gap in the family firms strategy literature by distancing itself from the traditional classical paradigm, which is often applied to study strategy in the family firms. It also represents the first exploratory attempt to map the strategic choices of ethnic South Asians family firms. The contributions also lie in the domain of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), where abundant support has been generated for the application of formal planning in the literature. In this research, propositions were generated using the prerequisites of contrasting strategy paradigms in the context of Whittington's (1993) model of perspectives on strategy which classifies the strategy literature into four schools of thought, classical, evolutionary, processual and systemic. An additional fifth school of thought regarded as resource based view was added. The primary hypotheses aim to investigate whether firms controlled by Anglo-Saxons and South Asians differ in telation to the five schools of strategic management. A secondary hypotheses which aims to investigate if family firms can be visualised in groups following particular schools of strategy was also submitted. The research also aimed to examine the relationship between summary independent variables such as age of business, ethnic origin, turnover and schools of strategic management as a dependent variable. By investigating fast growth firms, the domaninace of the classical paradigm of strategy in enhancing the firm's performance in literature is also examined in relation to other schools of strategy. A sample of 301 fast grwoing family firms was selected from the FAME database, and regional South Asian directories maintained by enterprise agencies using the UK SIC codes of 5139, 5134 and 7220. 76 firms agreed to participate in research. Questionnaires were filled in by the managing directors or senior managers of all the firms and in-depth interviews were conducted with 48 of them. The usable questionnaires numbered to seventy one. The questionnaire statements were developed adhering to the central premises of each school of thought. Statistical tests involved conducting hierarchical cluster analysis to group the family firms and study the commonalities amongst these firms. One way ANOVA was conducted to determine the inflcuence of ethnicity variable in each school of thought. In addition, regression analysis was performed to examine the relationship between summary independent variables and schools of strategic management. This project attempts to study strategy in family firms by applying the wider dimensions of strategy management concept. The findings are contradictory to the research stream which has argued that fast growth firms are likely to follow the classical school of strategy. It is proposed that ethnic origin has an important influence in determining the dominance of a particular strategy paradigm in a firm, and that no one particular school of thought dominates the managerial thinking when the firms are grouped together. The findings also question the application of theoretical strategy models when studied in the context of real managerial world
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Tan, Caroline Swee Lin, and caroline tansl@gmail com. "Sources Of Competitive Advantage For Emerging Fast Growth Small-To-Medium Enterprises: The Role Of Business Orientation, Marketing Capabilities, Customer Value, And Firm Performance." RMIT University. Management, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080530.094224.

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This thesis examines the influence of market, learning, and entrepreneurial orientation as sources of competitive advantage in fast-growth SMEs. It is taken that these three factors synergistically comprise an organization's business orientation, enhancing marketing capabilities and firm performance. In Australia, these firms tend to be emerging enterprises, usually less than 10 years of age, and comprise approximately 10% of all SMEs, contributing substantially to national revenue. Two studies (Study 1 and Study 2) were incorporated, utilizing a sequential explanatory design, which is characterized by undertaking quantitative data collection and analysis (path modelling), prior to conducting qualitative research (case studies/causal network modelling). Study 1 reveals that business orientations are significant antecedents to marketing capabilities. Accordingly, firms leverage advantages associated with a business orientation to strengthen their marketing capabilities. While superior marketing capabilities are important drivers of performance, these capabilities also mediate relationships between business orientation and performance. Without such capabilities, it appears that firm market, entrepreneurial and learning orientations provide little value to attainment of desired performance objectives. Fast growth SMEs invest in maintaining sound relationships with distributors and developing superior products/services for positional advantages. However, only product/service development capabilities contribute significantly to firm performance. Although Relationship Capabilities are related positively with Shared Vision (learning orientation) and Proactiveness (entrepreneurial orientation), this marketing capability dimension displays nonsignificant relationshi ps with performance measures. This finding suggests that even though FGF employees might have sound relationships with distributors/retailers, Relationship Capabilities are not a direct contributor to subjective measures of firm profitability, ROI, ROE, customer satisfaction, new product success, and overall marketing effectiveness, confirming that positional advantage does not necessarily lead to enhanced firm performance. In addition, marketing research, marketing management, marketing communications, and pricing are nonsignificant contributors within the context of the present hypothesized model. Study 2 extends the hypothesized model originating from Study 1. Based on an inductive analysis of case studies, qualitative findings reveal four significant qualities specific to these organizations: Leadership/CEO characteristics, human resource practices, organizational culture, and organizational climate. These characteristics can be regarded as intangible resources associated with fast-growth firms. These attributes appear to be significant antecedents to business orientation, marketing capabilities, customer value, and firm performance. Customer value features prominently. This model is also nonrecursive: firm performance sends a signal to potential employees and customers, impacting human resource related issues such as staff motivation, rewards, and recruitment. Successful firms tend to attract highly talented employees because potential staff want to be associated with winning enterprises. Information generated and disseminated from the renewal process adds new knowledge to superior organizational r esources, making the process nonrecursive. Perhaps, more importantly, Study 2 reveals that fast-growth companies seem to have an uncanny ability to remain ahead, preventing competitors from surreptitiously entering their markets. It might sound as a cliché, however, but these organizations appear to possess a commitment to customer centricity for at least some period of time, retaining customers by developing new products which continue to serve current customers as they change what they value.
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Mohr, Vivian Mikal. "High-growth firms in a high-tech cluster : the case of Cambridge, U.K." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609899.

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Perks, Keith J. "The development of a theoretical framework for the internationalization process of fast growth medium-sized firms in Europe." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2003. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7580.

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The experience of the author and a review of the literature identifies a number of possible limitations in current theories of internationalization. Existing theories can be broadly classified under the headings of either "stage school" or contingency theories. There appears to have been little research on the interface between the two theoretical approaches, nor on the dynamism of the internationalization process within an individual firm. While scholars challenge the current theory, few have attempted to develop or propose alternative theories. Therefore, the central aim and contribution of this doctoral research has been to develop a theoretical framework from the literature, evaluated in an empirical study of European firms. The research and theoretical development, whilst exploratory, suggests that the internationalization process of firms is contingent on exogenous and endogenous influences. These influences are dynamic, complex and vary according to the specific contexts used in the research. The contingency contexts are summarized here as: The industry and country environment in which the organization operates; the mindset of the entrepreneur decision-maker(s); the nature of the product, the market demographics, and the mindset and nature of the seller and buying organization. The results indicate that the theoretical framework is rigorous enough to demonstrate the variety in the internationalization processes of the firms in the study. The findings are, that whilst there are some common processes and patterns among the firms in the study, there are variations, explained by the contingency theory and contexts in which the firms operate. Previous research has neglected specific contexts as important factors in the internationalization process. The thesis addresses this gap in the research by developing the theory in the context of specific sectors (electronics, software and metal-mechanical) countries (UK, Germany, France and Italy), firm size (medium-sized) and fast growth.
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Kelly, Bridgita. "Common characteristics in fast growing Irish SMEs." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311517.

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Thorén, Kent. "Realizing a fast growth strategy - A case study of the evolution of management control systems in a fast growing firm." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Industrial Economics and Management, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-1812.

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Growth has received considerable interest from researchersduring the past two decades. Some of this research focuses onorganizational issues as firms grow, proposing that thisprocess involves considerable formalization of structures,pro-cedures and systems. However, until recently, fewsubstantial research contri-butions have been made thatinvestigate the specific influence of growth on con-trol systemdevelopment. To address this gap in knowledge, this thesisexplores control system development in a fast-growing casefirm. Using a lever-of-control framework, it examines whichcontrol mechanisms that have been introduced, at what pointduring the growth process and why. This study also investigateshow these mechanisms were used during the period studied. Theempirical material was coll-ected through a number ofinterviews that were supplemented with internal docu-ments andobservations of organizational practice. In order to capturethe links between the control system changes and growth,special attention was paid to participants' intentions forthese changes. The focus on intentions is motivated by theassumption that participants' responses to their subjectiveperception of situ-ations are decisive for the emergence ofobservable organizational practices.

The findings illustrate the importance of including anddistinguishing between dif-ferent growth measures, since bothorganizational growth (number of employees) and business growth(sales and profit) influenced the patterns observed in thiscase. Furthermore, the intentions behind the investigatedchanges involve both the achievement of goals and the handlingof consequences of the two types of growth. More specifically,business growth was related to the introduction of diagnosticcontrol systems and the formalization of work processes. Thesechanges were in-itiated by high-level managers striving toenhance firm performance and reduce risks. Organizationalgrowth, on the other hand, was associated with systems forintegration that were primarily initiated by employees. Inparticular, the geographi-cal differentiation of sub-unitsseemed to be associated with problems concerning motivation,confusions and coordination, because of communicationdifficulties between units that are spatially separate. Theseproblems were solved by providing distant units with additionalchannels for rich information. However, the interpre-tation andprecise classification of organizational practices also dependon which group's perspective one considers, as severalpractices could be interpreted in alt-ernative ways. Forinstance, when primarily considering the managers' perspective,one of the integrating information channels mentioned abovecould also be inter-preted as an interactive controlmechanism.

The thesis also presents implications for theory andpractice and points out sev-eral promising areas for furtherresearch. Some findings highlight limitations in thetheoretical control framework and open for an extension of thelevers-of-control model. This case demonstrates that controlscan be used interactively not only to support innovation andstrategic maneuvering, but also for other purposes relevant tofirms operating in more stable environments that pursuestrategies with a relatively fixed business scope.

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Thorén, Kent. "Realizing a fast growth strategy : a case study of the evolution of management control systems in a fast growing firm /." Stockholm : Institutionen för industriell ekonomi och organisation, Tekniska högsk. : Arvinius, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-1812.

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Llorach, Carlos, and Emanuel Ottosson. "The Balanced Scorecard during the early stages of a tech firm : A multiple case study regarding performance management in Swedish tech startups." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-301095.

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The rapid advances in technology and increase of tech investments across all the industries have promoted the emergence of several startups. Unfortunately, not all startups succeed despite of having good initial ideas. One reason to the poor business performance could be a lack of managerial control. Researchers and industry experts believe that performance management could support tech entrepreneurs to monitor and control the drivers that promote growth and their success. However, there is a lack of studies that could support these thoughts about its suitability for tech startups. Therefore, this study gathers empirical findings from Swedish tech startups as well as industry experts to discuss this issue. The findings show that a performance measurement system such as the Balanced Scorecard is a suitable practice for tech entrepreneurs. It also brings some insights about how the performance measurements evolve as the firms mature.
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Books on the topic "Fast-growth firms"

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Hogan, Teresa. Fast growth firms in Ireland: An empirical assessment. Dublin: Dublin City University Business School, 1996.

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Storey, D. J. Fast growth small businesses: Case studies of 40 small firms in North EastEngland. [London: Department of Employment, 1989.

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Storey, D. J. Fast growth small businesses: Case studies of 40 small firms in North East England. [s.l.]: Department of Employment, 1987.

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Storey, D. J. Fast growth small businesses: Case studies of 40 small firms in North East England. London: Department of Employment, 1989.

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Success the LOVEFilm way: How to grow a fast growth business in fast changing times. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Capstone, 2013.

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Mastering the Rockefeller habits: What you must do to increase the value of your fast-growth firm. New York: SelectBooks, 2002.

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P, Kinsella R., and Irish Management Institute, eds. Fast-growth small firms: An Irish perspective. Dublin: Irish Management Institute, 1994.

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Visintin, Francesca, and Daniel Pittino. Fast Growing Firms in a Slow Growth Economy. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781785367113.

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Associates and Zweig White. 1999 Fast-Growth Firm Survey of A/E/P & Environmental Consulting Firms. ZweigWhite & Associates, Inc., 1999.

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W, Smilor Raymond, and Kuhn Robert Lawrence, eds. Managing take-off in fast growth companies: Innovation in entrepreneurial firms. New York: Praeger, 1986.

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Book chapters on the topic "Fast-growth firms"

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Lin, Caroline Tan Swee, and Kosmas X. Smyrnios. "Antecedents of Organizational Learning in Fast-Growth Firms." In Marketing, Technology and Customer Commitment in the New Economy, 104–9. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11779-9_38.

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Rutskiy, Vladislav, Marina Solodova, Roman Tsarev, Irina Yarygina, and Omer Faruk Derindag. "Fast-Growing Firms – “Gazelles” in Modern Russia: An Empirical Study of Growth Factors." In Software Engineering Perspectives in Intelligent Systems, 1011–22. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63322-6_87.

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de Morais Sarmento, Elsa, and Alcina Nunes. "Entrepreneurship, Job Creation, and Growth in Fast-Growing Firms in Portugal: Is There a Role for Policy?" In Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, and Regional Development, 333–86. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12871-9_17.

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Lin, Caroline Tan Swee. "Competitive Advantage for Fast Growth SMEs: A Study of the Effects of Business Orientation and Marketing Capabilities on Firm Performance." In Marketing, Technology and Customer Commitment in the New Economy, 292–98. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11779-9_107.

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Mirvahedi, Saeed, and Sussie C. Morrish. "Serendipity, effectuation, entrepreneurial marketing and fast growth entrepreneurial firms." In Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Marketing, 222–37. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781785364570.00025.

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Sengupta, Atanu, and Ujjwal Seth. "Surplus Labour in the Unorganised Sector of India." In Strategic Infrastructure Development for Economic Growth and Social Change, 290–308. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7470-7.ch019.

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Disguised unemployment is the wastage of labour resource of a country. For a country like India that wishes to move towards a fast growth tract, disguised unemployment is a serious setback to the growth path. Several theoretical justifications have been provided to contextualize disguised unemployment. They all assume homogeneous production structure across firms. However, the informal sector in India is a conglomeration of different firm types. In India, the NSSO data subdivided firms into family enterprises (Own Account Enterprises – OAE) and commercially motivated (Establishment). The authors require a theoretical justification following this line. In this chapter, they generalise the argument provided by Georgescu-Roegen (1960) for this purpose. In this chapter, an attempt is made to measure surplus labour in the informal sector of India using NSSO data. For this, the concept of sub-vector efficiency as developed by Ray (2005) is used. The authors calculate surplus labour in OAEs and EST firms separately.
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Bi, Rui, Robert M. Davison, Booi H. Kam, and Kosmas X. Smyrnios. "How Does IT Capability Impact Organizational Agility in the Supply Chain Context?" In Handbook of Research on Technology Adoption, Social Policy, and Global Integration, 88–108. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2668-1.ch006.

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Organizational agility is regarded as a strategic capability, helping firms to compete, survive, and succeed in fast changing environments. Companies with greater IT investments are expected to be more agile. However, the issue of whether IT is an enabler or impeder of agility still remains unresolved. Drawing upon resource-based view theory, the authors test a theoretical model that integrates IT capability, supply chain capability and organizational agility. The authors propose that IT capability enables the development of a higher level of supply chain capability which is embedded within inter-firm processes and in turn enhances agility. Structural equation modeling is employed to test their theoretical conceptualization of 310 Australian fast-growth small-to-medium enterprises across different industrial sectors. The results show that IT capability does contribute to firm agility through enhancing inter-firm supply chain processes. This research highlights the role of IT-enabled intermediated processes and the ways in which IT is used by firms to enhance core business processes.
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Hanson, Robin. "Growth." In The Age of Em. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198754626.003.0023.

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How fast might an em economy grow? We have many reasons to expect an em economy to grow much faster than does our economy today. As mentioned in Chapter 13 , Competition section, the em economy should be more competitive in the sense of more aggressively and more easily replacing low-efficiency items and arrangements with higher-efficiency versions. Reduced product variety and spatial segmentation of markets help innovations to spread more quickly across the economy. Stronger urban concentration should also help promote innovation ( Carlino and Kerr 2014 ). The fact that more productive em work teams can be copied as a whole should make it much easier for more productive em firms and establishments to rapidly displace less productive firms and establishments. These factors allow the em economy to innovate more quickly. For a long time, most innovation, and most of the total value of innovation, has been associated with a great many small and context-dependent changes ( Sahal 1981 ). Most innovation has also long come from application and practice, rather than from “researchers” or “inventors” narrowly conceived. Most of the research that aids innovation is “applied” as opposed to “basic” research. Thus we expect most of this better and faster em innovation to consist of many small innovations that arise in the context of application and practice. Another reason to expect faster growth in an em economy is that ems depend more on computer technology. One might guess that a future very computer-centered economy improves at something closer to the recent rate at which computer technologies have improved. This suggests that the global em economy might double as fast as every year and a half, which is 10 times faster than today’s economic doubling time of about 15 years. Actually, there are plausible reasons to expect an em economy to grow even faster. The productive capacity of an economy comes from its capacity of inputs, such as land, labor, and capital of various sorts, and also from its level of “technology,” that is, the ways it has to convert inputs into useful outputs. Although there have been times and places where growth has been driven mainly by increases in inputs, most growth over the long run has come from better technology, broadly conceived.
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Akhter, Shameem, Nayem Rahman, Mahmud Ullah, and Mohammad Nirjhar Rahman. "Shaping Competitive Strategies for the Computer Industry." In Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology, 189–207. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6367-9.ch010.

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Accelerated response to competition with appropriate actions is one of the major determinants for a firm's sustenance and survival. Both operational and financial performances in terms of gaining and/or keeping competitive advantage always remain under the watchful eyes of the relevant stakeholders in an industry. A firm has to be very vigilant to cope with the internal and external changes it faces over the different phases of its growth. Just like any other industry, this is equally true, in fact more true for the computer industry as well. Continuous innovation in the computer industry has made it a very fast growing and fiercely competitive industry in the field of modern technologies. Firms in this industry always have to be on their toes to tackle the fierce competition created due to many obvious reasons. This study examines the computer industry in the light of Michael Porter's framework for analyzing the profitability. Threats of new entrants and substitute products, bargaining power of both suppliers and buyers, and regular rivalry among the competitors have been analyzed critically. This study may have significant implications in evaluating the competitive strategies developed and applied by the incumbent firms in and the new entrants into the computer manufacturing industry.
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Kesic, Dragan. "Research of Strategic Global Development Trends and Competitiveness in the World Pharmaceutical Industry." In Handbook of Research on Global Business Opportunities, 390–401. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6551-4.ch018.

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In this chapter, the authors analyze strategic global development trends and competitiveness in the world pharmaceutical industry. They find some most significant characteristics of the world pharmaceutical industry, which greatly influence the global development in this “high-tech” industrial sector. The global pharmaceutical industry has been consolidating over the past 30 years. According to the research, the main strategic reasons for the intensive consolidation processes in the world pharmaceutical industry include the following: lack of new products to drive sales growth, huge investments needed for R&D activities to develop new products, fast globalization processes of the global economy, global marketing and sales activities that need large investments, and changed structure of competitors created by M&A strategies and consolidation processes. The concentration process, which is still going on, has created many new phramaceutical players; however, some previously well-known pharmaceutical firms have disappeared from the global marketplace.
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Conference papers on the topic "Fast-growth firms"

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Xu, Zhigang, Corydon Hilton, Bobby Watkins, Sergey Yarmolenko, and Jag Sankar. "Thin YSZ Electrolyte Film Depositions on Dense and Porous Substrates." In ASME 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2003-43330.

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Yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) thin films have been processed on polished silicon and porous strontium-doped lanthanum manganite (LSM) substrates by liquid fuel combustion chemical vapor deposition from combustion of an aerosol jet. The aerosol jet consists of Y- and Zr- containing metalorganics dissolved in toluene and high-purity oxygen. The morphology and thickness of the deposited films have been analyzed with scanning electron microscope. On the polished silicon substrates, thin and uniform films have been obtained. The grain growth rate is of the first order of the deposition time. The film growth rate was greatly enhanced by utilizing higher precursor concentrations, proper substrate temperature and the effect of thermophoresis. However, when the porous substrate is being coated, a more complex deposition process takes place. The initial deposition seems to be favored on the surface protrusions. Therefore, the covered areas serve as nucleation sites and the grains start to grow, giving rise to larger particles and rougher surface than the films on polished silicon. To enhance the pore-sealing rate, some pre-treatments and post-treatment have been used. Moreover, deposition parameters towards fast pore sealing have been investigated. Thin and continuous films with the film thickness less than 3 μm have been obtained.
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Medina, Henry, Shi Wun Tong, Carlos Manzano, Wugang Liao, Weifeng Yang, Lee Kheng Tan, Weng Weei Tjiu, Chunxiang Zhu, and DongZhi Chi. "Low Temperature and Fast Growth of Polycrystalline MoS2 Films using Low Temperature Sublimation Sources." In 2019 Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing Conference (EDTM). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/edtm.2019.8731147.

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Fang, H. S., Y. Y. Pan, J. A. Wei, S. Liu, Z. Zhang, and L. L. Zheng. "Numerical Study and Optimization of GaN Thin-Film Growth by MOCVD Method." In ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2013 11th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ht2013-17598.

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Light-emitting diode (LED) is considered as the “green light” of the twenty-first century, and the white high-power LED is mainly achieved by the excitation of yellow fluorescent powder with GaN-based blue light. Therefore, the quality of GaN films directly influences the reliability, light efficiency and durability of the Led devices. In the paper, a coupled model has been developed and applied on the simulation of transport phenomena and chemical kinetics during the GaN growth process by a vertical metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactor. The effects of the carrier gas type, gas flow rate, and the disk rotation rate on the species distributions, GaN deposition rate and temperature field are investigated. The results indicate that nitrogen is better than hydrogen as carrier gas in consideration of the GaN deposition rate, and that, at the current range of the growth parameters, fast crystal rotation rate and gas inlet velocity are favorable for the large deposition rate and for the improvement of the averaged growth uniformity. However, the edge effect becomes more critical. The results also show that an intermediate gas inlet velocity and a fast disk rotation rate are better conditions from an averaged evaluation of the deposition rate and growth uniformity. The analyses have provided important guide for a practical GaN thin-film growth.
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Pan, Liqiang, Yang Liu, Weihua Li, and Yefei Liu. "Experimental Investigation and Flow Visualization of the Two-Phase Flow Instability at Low Vapor Quality in a Vertical Narrow Channel." In 2018 26th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone26-82052.

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The two-phase flow instability of forced convection has been experimentally investigated in a vertical narrow channel with the hydraulic diameter of 2.857mm and aspect ratio of 20. Transparent, metallic and conductive films on external surfaces of the test section can provide visualization and uniform heating for deionized water. The heat flux is 6–18.2 kW · m−2. When the instability occurs at low vapor quality, a series of parameters are measured and visualized images are obtained by a high-speed camera. The results show that the large amplitude of pressure drop between the inlet and outlet in the test section is due to the elongated bubble, and the value of pressure drop is positively correlated with the volume of the bubble. The oscillation period of pressure drop decreases with the increase of heat flux, and the period can be determined by the method of the Fast Fourier Transform. The backflow phenomenon is analyzed, which has a greater effect on the oscillation of pressure drop than bubble nucleation, bubble growth, bubble coalescence and recoiling of bubble boundary.
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Rykaczewski, Konrad, Ben White, Jenna Browning, Andrew D. Marshall, and Andrei G. Fedorov. "Dynamic Model of Electron Beam Induced Deposition (EBID) of Residual Hydrocarbons in Electron Microscopy." In ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2006-14955.

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Adsorbed species surface diffusion Electron beam induced deposition (EBID) of residuals carbon can be either a contamination problem or can provide a basis for 3-D nanofabrication and nanoscale metrology. In this process a solid deposit is formed at the point of impact of the electron beam due to the decomposition of residual hydrocarbon species adsorbed on the solid substrate. The first observation of EBID can be traced to miscroscopists who noticed the growth of thin films of carbon while imaging using an electron microscope. The process was referred to as "contamination" because of its adverse effects on the microscope's imaging quality. Later, it has been demonstrated that with appropriate control of the electron beam this problematic contamination can be exploited to deposit three dimensional nanostructures with the spatial resolution down to 10nm. Numerous researchers have experimentally explored various factors influencing EBID growth rate and geometry of the deposit. To date, the most comprehensive theoretical model predicting the shape of the deposit in EBID is due to Silvis-Cividjian[1]. However, this model accounts for electron transport only. A few, fairly rudimentary models have also been developed for mass transport in EBID, but usually limited to rather simplistic treatment of electron transport. To this end, we have developed a comprehensive dynamic model of EBID coupling mass transport, electron transport and scattering, and species decomposition to predict deposition of carbon nano-dots. The simulations predict the local species and electron density distributions, as well as the 3-D profile and the growth rate of the deposit. Since the process occurs in a high vacuum environment surface diffusion is considered as the primary transport mode of surface-adsorbed hydrocarbon precursor. Transport, scattering, and absorption of primary electron as well as secondary electron generation are treated using the Monte Carlo methods. Low energy secondary electrons (SE) are the major contributors to hydrocarbon decomposition due to their energy range matching peak dissociation reaction cross section energies for precursor molecules. The local SE flux at the substrate and at the free surface of the growing deposit is computed using the Fast Secondary Electron (FSE) model. When combined with the total dissociation reaction corssection and the local hydrocarbon surface concentration, this allows us to compute the local deposition rate. The deposition rates are then used to predict the shape profile evolution of the deposit. Simulation results are compared with an AFM imaging of carbon EBID.
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Veliyev, Fuad H., Elkhan M. Abbasov, and Sayavur I. Bakhtiyarov. "Energy Saving Technology Based of Negative Pressure Phenomenon." In ASME/JSME 2007 5th Joint Fluids Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fedsm2007-37098.

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Negative pressure is one of the metastable states of liquids at which it can be extended up to a certain limit without a gap of continuity. There are numerous experimental studies where a negative pressure up to 40 MPa has been obtained at laboratory conditions. However, these results of the experimental works were not practically implemented, as real liquids both in the nature and the technological processes contain impurities. Under certain kinetic and hydrodynamic conditions the waves of negative pressure in real liquids (crude oil, water, and water-based solutions) were observed. The wave of negative pressure is a turned soliton wave with one negative hump. It is a conservative wave, which maintains its shape and dimensions, and travels long distances with the speed of sound. An advanced technology of generation of the negative pressure wave in real systems allowed creating completely new energy saving technology. This technology based on negative pressure phenomenon has been already used for increasing oil production efficiency during various oil well operations, cleaning of oil well bore, and pipelines from various accumulations. It is shown that a new technology has a lot of potentials for bottom-hole cleaning operations, oil recovery enhancement, pipeline transportation, gas-lift operation etc. Negative pressure is known to be one of the metastable states at which liquids can be extended up to a certain limit. Theoretic evaluations show that in pure liquids negative pressure may reach large values while the liquid may stand significant extending efforts. For instance, the maximum negative pressure that may be sustained by ideally pure water is estimated as −109N/m2. It means that an imaginable rope of completely pure water with the diameter of 0.01m can sustain a huge extending effort more than 105 N. It is evident that the real experimental values of negative pressure are much less than the corresponding theoretic estimations. It is connected with the impossibility of obtaining ideally pure liquids without any “weak places” (gas bubbles, admixture, etc) and with the circumstance that in experience, the rupture often happens not in the liquid volume but on the surface touching the walls of the vessels weakened by the existence of thin films, embryos, etc. There are numerous results of the experimental work of static and dynamic character, where negative pressure has appeared in one or another degree [1]. In laboratory conditions, negative pressure apparently was first revealed in the experiences made by F. M. Donny (1843), who used degassed sulfuric acid and obtained negative pressure only −0.012 MPa. Among the further attempts of receiving bigger negative pressure, it is worth mentioning the experiences made by O.Reynolds, M.Bertelot and J.Meyer. Basing upon a centrifugal method and using mercury, L.J.Briggs obtained the record value of negative pressure (−42.5 MPa). But as a matter of fact, beginning from the first experiences by F. M. Donny, the main condition in the investigations for the appearance of negative pressure has been the homogeneous character of the liquid and high degree of the purity the liquid-vessel system. Significant values of negative pressure has been obtained under those conditions, however these results of a great scientific importance have no effective applications in practice as real liquids in Nature and technological processes are heterogeneous multicomponent systems. A long-term experimental work has been done to generate negative negative pressure in real liquid systems and investigate influence of this state on thermohydrodynamical characteristics of natural and technological processes [2,3]. Basing on the idea that negative pressure can be created due to the sudden character of extending efforts a direct wave of the negative pressure in real liquids (water, oil, solutions etc.) have been obtained experimentally. For impulsive entering into metastable (overheated) zone in a phase diagram “liquid-vapor” the pressure should drop so fast that the existing centers of evaporation (bubbles, embryos, admixtures etc.) would not be able to manifest themselves for this period. In these terms purity of the liquid is not decisive, and herewith there might exist states of an overheated liquid with the manifestation of negative pressure. It was determined that wave of the negative pressure resembling overturned soliton wave with one but negative peak propagates with speed of sound. The typical variation of the pressure in the petroleum stream in pipe is given in Figure 1. Reversed wave of the negative pressure was not recorded during the experiments. Evidently this is associated with considerable structural changes in the liquid after the passing of the direct wave. The arising negative pressure though being a short-term, results in a considerable overheating of the fluid system and leads to spontaneous evaporation and gas-emanation with the further cavitation regime. It was determined that after passing of the negative pressure wave hydraulic resistance in the system becomes much less, and significant increase of permeability of the porous medium and intensification of the filtration process take place. On the base of the investigations it was made a conclusion that any discharge in the hydraulic systems when the drop of the pressure requires much less time that relaxation of the pressure in the system inevitably results in the arising of rarefaction wave, in particular, the negative pressure wave [4]. The larger is the hydraulic system and the higher is the depression of the pressure, the more intensively the negative pressure wave may manifest itself. In certain terms waves of the positive pressure may be reflected from free surfaces, different obstacles, from contact surfaces between phases in the form of the reverse wave of the negative pressure. On this base there were presented numerous theoretical and experimental works on the simulation of the process, investigation of impact of the negative pressure on certain physical features of real systems [5]. The negative pressure wave may lead to very hard complications: showings of oil and gas leading sometimes to dreadful open fountains, borehole wall collapse, column crushing, gryphon appearance [6]. Analysis of numerous facts of complications, troubles in wells as water-oil-gas showings, crushing of columns, collapses, gryphon formation demonstrates that they arise usually as a result of round-trip operations in drilling of wells and their capital repairs. The negative pressure wave may be initiated by a sudden pulling of pipes or drilling equipment, as well as their sudden braking, quick opening of a valve at the well exit, etc, resulting in metastable extension of the working fluid agent. Though impulse negative pressure manifests itself as a significant dynamic factor, its structural consequences are more dangerous for an oil well. Moving along a well the negative pressure wave results in the spontaneous boiling of the water in the drilling fluid, and as a result of considerable reduction of its specific weight the hydrostatic column is “switched-off’ for some seconds and this may be sufficient for oil and gas showings of the well to be appeared accompanied often by crushing of columns and collapsing of wells due to great destroying energy manifestation. Negative pressure waves may be considered also as one of the dominant factors in geophysical processes, especially, in evolution and appearance of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes [7,8]. Extreme dynamic processes in the underground medium as a matter of fact can be considered as a synergetic manifestation of the negative pressure together with other thermohydrodynamical factors. The waves of negative pressure in the underground environment may be initiated by tectonic dislocations and faults as a result of different dynamic processes, dramatic decrease of pressure during the displacement of fluids and rocks. They may arise also in the form of a reverse waves as a result of reflection of ordinary seismic waves from different underground surfaces. On the basis of received results the method of artificial creation of negative pressure waves has been created [4]. The essence of the method is that negative pressure waves can be generated by means of discharge in hydraulic systems (pipes, wells, etc) when the drop of the pressure takes place during the characteristic time much less than that of pressure relaxation in the system. The greater is the volume of hydraulic system and the higher is the depression of the pressure, the more intensively the negative pressure wave may manifest itself. This method was taken as a basis of elaboration of principally new technologies and installations to increase effectiveness and efficiency of some oil recovery processes. It has been worked out and widely tested in field conditions new technologies on using of the negative pressure phenomenon for cleaning of oil producing hydraulic systems/well bore, pipeline/from various accumulations and increasing of effectiveness of oil producing at different well operation methods. The technology provides generation negative pressure waves in the well using the special mechanisms that leads to the shock depression impact upon the oil stratum, and as a result, to considerable growth in the oil influx, bottom-hole cleaning, accompanied by essential saving both reservoir and lifting energies, elimination and prevention of sandy bridging, paraffin, silt, water, etc. accumulations. For implementations of these technologies corresponding installations have been elaborated, in part, equipments for cleaning out of oil holes from sand plugs, increasing of efficiency and effectiveness of gas-lift well operations and bottom-hole pumping. In cleaning out of oil-holes from sand plugs the most operative and effective liquidation of different sand plugs irrespective of their rheological character is provided, associated with complete bottom-hole cleaning, essential increase of oil recovery and overhaul period. Elaborated equipment is simple and easy to use. Other comparatively advantageous application of the technology provides increase of efficiency of a gas-lift well operation, expressed in considerable reduction of a specific gas consumption associated with essential increase of oil recovery and overhaul period. The design of the equipment is reliable and simple to service. There are different modifications of the equipment for single-row, double-row lifts in packer and packerless designs. The introduced technologies have passed broad test in field conditions. The operative and complete cleaning of numerous oil wells was carried out, where the altitude of sand plugs varied from 20m to 180m; oil output of wells and their overhaul period have been increased and specific gas discharge reduced significantly.
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Reports on the topic "Fast-growth firms"

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Yun, Sangho H., Judy Z. Wu, Steven C. Tidrow, and Donald W. Eckart. Growth of Hg-Based Cuprate Films on Lanthanum-Aluminate Using Fast-Temperature Ramping Hg-Vapor Annealing. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, March 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada323736.

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