高成长企业测度与界定标准研究

Study on the Definition and Measurement of High Growth Firm

高成长企业不仅是就业机会的主要创造者,还是产业技术创新的重要承担者和经济发展的动力。通过追溯高成长企业的理论渊源,界定高成长企业的4个维度,即增长率、测度指标、企业规模和考察期,在对已有文献关于绝对指标测度法、相对指标测度法及各类指标优缺点分析的基础上,归纳出符合高成长企业本质特征的测度标准和方法,可为后续理论研究提供参考。

High-grow th firms are not only the new job creators but also the principle innovators of industrial technology and driver of economy development .Although more and more interests have focused on high-growth firms research ,there have not formed general standards of measurement and definition of high-growth firm which reduced the comparability and accumulation of existing achievements .After reviewing the source of high-growth firm theory ,we find four dimensions of high-grow th firms ,i .e .grow th rate ,indicators ,scale and observing periods .Based on comparing absolute measurement and relative measurement and analyzing advantages and disadvantages of indicators ,we summarize the standard and ways of measurement which are in conformity with the nature of high-growth firms .