Start-ups’ scaling-up strategies at the regional periphery

IF 4.5 2区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS
Christian Felzensztein, Afsaneh Bagheri
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Abstract

Purpose

Our understanding of the strategies that lead to the success of start-ups when they scale-up is limited when it occurs at the regional periphery. The main purpose of this study is to explore the specific strategies that start-ups employ to scale-up, specifically in contexts with high resource constraints at the regional periphery.

Design/methodology/approach

Analyzing the data from personal in-depth interviews with engineering and science start-up founders in peripheral regions of upstate New York USA bordering the Canadian Ontario, we explored a combination of internal and external strategies that start-ups employed to scale-up.

Findings

The study found that start-ups prioritize building internal scaling capacity in their human capital, organizational structure, scalable business model, finance and business ownership. To foster the scaling process further, start-ups develop new effective external strategies that target the business environment.

Practical implications

Policymakers and regional governments can use our research to develop more effective industrial policies for supporting start-ups’ growth and subsiding strategic industry clusters for rebooting new competition policy, which is a current debate in many industrialized economies including the US. This targeted regional industrial policy is specially needed when scaling-up at the regional periphery.

Social implications

Our study is specially need it when scaling-up at the regional periphery and with limited resources.

Originality/value

This study enriches our understanding of the growth of start-ups and small ventures by providing context-based insights into how firms build the capacity to scale-up in highly challenging and uncertain business environments in a peripheral bordering region between the USA and Canada. It also offers useful managerial and policy implications.

初创企业在地区边缘的扩展战略
目的当初创企业在地区边缘扩大规模时,我们对其取得成功的战略的理解是有限的。本研究的主要目的是探讨初创企业在扩大规模时所采用的具体策略,特别是在地区边缘资源高度紧张的情况下。设计/方法/途径通过对美国纽约州北部与加拿大安大略省接壤的边缘地区的工程和科学初创企业创始人的个人深度访谈数据进行分析,我们探讨了初创企业在扩大规模时所采用的内部和外部策略的组合。研究结果研究发现,初创企业优先考虑在人力资本、组织结构、可扩展的商业模式、资金和企业所有权方面建立内部扩展能力。实际意义政策制定者和地区政府可以利用我们的研究制定更有效的产业政策,以支持初创企业的发展,并为战略产业集群提供补贴,从而重新启动新的竞争政策,这是包括美国在内的许多工业化经济体目前正在讨论的问题。在地区边缘扩大规模时,尤其需要这种有针对性的地区产业政策。原创性/价值这项研究丰富了我们对初创企业和小型企业成长的理解,提供了基于背景的见解,说明在美国和加拿大接壤的边缘地区,企业如何在极具挑战性和不确定性的商业环境中建立扩大规模的能力。它还提供了有益的管理和政策启示。
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CiteScore
10.20
自引率
16.40%
发文量
94
期刊介绍: The International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research (IJEBR) has a unique focus on publishing original research related to the human and social dynamics of entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial management in small and growing organizations. The journal has an international perspective on entrepreneurship and publishes conceptual papers and empirical studies which bring together issues of interest to academic researchers and educators, policy-makers and practitioners worldwide.The editorial team encourages high-quality submissions which advance the study of human and behavioural dimensions of entrepreneurship and smaller organizations. Examples of topics which illustrate the scope of the journal are provided below. Topicality Nascent entrepreneurship and new venture creation Management development and learning in smaller businesses Enterprise and entrepreneurship education, learning and careers Entrepreneurial psychology and cognition Management and transition in smaller, growing and family-owned enterprises Corporate entrepreneurship and venturing Entrepreneurial teams, management and organizations Social, sustainable and informal entrepreneurship National and international policy, historical and cultural studies in entrepreneurship Gender, minority and ethnic entrepreneurship Innovative research methods and theoretical development in entrepreneurship Resourcing and managing innovation in entrepreneurial ventures.
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