Does firm size improve firm growth? Empirical evidence from an emerging economy

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI:10.18559/ebr.2023.3.793

J. Bentzen, L. Tung

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Abstract

Abstract This study aims to examine the relationship between firm size and firm growth in Vietnam. The literature does not in general give support to Gibrat’s law stating that the expected increase in firm size is proportionate to its initial size, or that firm growth rates are independent of firm size. The present study relies on a sample of 578 listed Vietnamese companies representing eight different industries and covering the period 2010 to 2020. The analysis reveals that growth in firm revenues does not give support to a hypothesis of independence of initial firm sizes. When the firm size is measured by total assets the opposite result appears, i.e. the Gibrat’s law is not rejected. When including also the age of the firms in the test methodology the conclusion will be that firm growth—measured by revenue or assets—in all cases will decrease with firm size.

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企业规模是否能促进企业增长?来自新兴经济体的经验证据

摘要本研究旨在探讨越南企业规模与企业成长之间的关系。文献一般不支持Gibrat定律，即企业规模的预期增长与其初始规模成正比，或者企业增长率与企业规模无关。目前的研究依赖于578家越南上市公司的样本，代表8个不同的行业，涵盖2010年至2020年。分析表明，企业收入的增长并不支持初始企业规模独立的假设。当企业规模以总资产来衡量时，则出现相反的结果，即直布罗陀定律不被拒绝。当在测试方法中也包括公司的年龄时，结论将是，在所有情况下，以收入或资产衡量的公司增长将随着公司规模而减少。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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