Search

ABSTRACTThe pursuit of growth is a key endeavor of all types of firms, but it is particularly important for SMEs. From a managerial perspective, growing SMEs face a wide range of challenges; this study proposes a broad framework that emphasizes not only the various types of managerial challenges, but also the importance of taking a balanced, broad approach to facing them. In a qualitative study of 44 Swedish SMEs, the researchers identify, map, and aggregate distinct challenges to SME growth, proposing three overarching themes – business model, leadership, and people. Multiple lower-level categories and individual challenges make up each of these themes suggesting that firms that seek to excel in growth should be aware of and manage all three themes in a balanced manner. This research provides insights into each theme and potential consequences for SMEs; it also offers an overarching, integrative perspective on SME growth challenges opening future research avenues.

Whether post-glacial rebound or/and crustal variation contributes to the pattern of the Fennoscandian gravity field has been of great interest to geoscientists. Previous numerical studies are based on different Moho maps, different global Earth gravity models and different isostatic models of Pratt type, resulting in quite different conclusions.

Whether post-glacial rebound or/and crustal variation contributes to the pattern of the Fennoscandian gravity field has been of great interest to geoscientists. Previous numerical studies are based on different Moho maps, different global Earth gravity models and different isostatic models of Pratt type, resulting in quite different conclusions.

The analysis shows that the spectra of geoid undulation (ΔN) and gravity anomaly (Δg) computed from the values implied by the OSU89B harmonic coefficients, degrees 4–100, Rapp & Pavlis (1990), do not fit the spectra of ΔN and Δg computed from values implied by a Pratt-type isostatic model applied to the Moho depth variations in Fennoscandia as suggested by Anderson (1984) and Marquart (1989). The magnitudes of the model spectra are that much larger than the OSU89B spectra that the relevance of the isostasy model is questionable.