One of the fundamental issues in organization and strategy research
is identifying the factors that influence the development of firms
over time. The current book introduces a new perspective regarding
the firm development process - the Firm Growth Profile (FGP). We
define the FGP as: a pattern of growth common to a cluster of firms
that take similar actions while retaining a degree of
idiosyncraticity. We assert that external factors limit variance in
the way firms grow, hence firm development is not a purely
idiosyncratic firm-level process, but rather an evolutionary
process influenced by the external environment. Accordingly, we
expect to identify groups of firms that operate in a similar way
under similar external conditions or in specific contexts. To
demonstrate this point of view we analyze the growth patterns of
Israeli Hi Tech firms. In one study we analyze the exploration and
exploitation patterns of firm activities along the product life
cycle, by distinguishing between "component" and "total solution"
producers. In a second study we focus on another major type of
action sequence taken by Hi Tech firms - financial liquidation.
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