Graduation Year
2016
Date of Submission
12-2016
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Economics
Reader 1
Murat Binay
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Abstract
Nearly every company executive strives to achieve rapid growth and expansion for their firm, and does so in an almost single-minded manner. This paper focuses on the seldom discussed or accounted for negative side of rapid growth, namely the growing pains experienced by companies as their larger size creates a variety of challenges, such as increased bureaucracy, financial management, and maintaining efficiency. Specifically, this paper began with the Forbes 100 Fastest-Growing Corporations in 2011 and created a dataset of their corporate information over the five-year period after their recognition (2011-2015). The dataset was analyzed in order to identify the negative factors that those companies experienced due to their rapid growth. The goal of this was provide a roadmap for expansion-minded companies to strategize about their future growth.
Recommended Citation
Mackinlay, Gavin Zellweger, "Growing Pains: An Analysis of High Growth Companies and the Attributes that Influence Their Continued Growth" (2016). CMC Senior Theses. 1505.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1505
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
