The impact of managers' attitudes on SMEs' growth in northern Sweden

• Main Authors: Anders Isaksson, Vladimir Vanyushyn, Peter Hultén
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=52518

This paper examines the impact of managers' attitudes to growth on the realised growth in a sample of 1,416 small firms in northern Sweden. The findings demonstrate a positive relationship between the managers' attitudes and the actual growth outcomes. Zero-growth firms turned out different from both positive- and negative- growth firms with regard to managers' attitude towards growth as a competitive necessity. The owners of zero-growth firms perceived their firms as a primary source of income and employment. Our findings, therefore, provide indications of how attitudes affect outcomes among SMES that aspire to grow. company growth; Sweden; managers; managerial attitudes; realised growth; actual growth; growth outcomes; zero-growth firms; positive-growth firms; negative-growth firms; competitive necessities; income sources; employment sources; Vasterbotten; Norrland; small and medium-sized enterprises; SMEs; entrepreneurs; entrepreneurship.