O crescimento da empresa: uma análise da variabilidade das taxas de crescimento

• Autor(a) principal: Brito, Luiz Artur Ledur
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Relatório
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/3072
• topic: Growth; Componentes de variância; Compustat; Administração de empresas; Crescimento

This research investigated the observed variability in growth rate of firms, associating this variability to groups of factors, such as: industry; time period; country and individual firm. The proposal was inspired in the active line of research in strategy of financial performance variance components, using growth as a dependant variable instead of a financial indicator. Firm growth can be taken as an important dimension of performance in its broader sense, but it has never been studied using this approach. Findings indicate that idiosyncratic firm effects explain the major part of explainable variance. Year and country effects are also relevant. Industry effects, however, have shown to be of a small influence in explaining growth variability. The Compustat Global database will be the primary data source. Results will allow an assessment of the importance of each group of factors and will have practical implications both in corporate strategic management as well as in development and growth policy of a country or an industrial sector. This project intends to analyze an international dimension to encompass country effects, and opens the possibility of further studies focusing the Brazilian environment.