References
Journal Articles
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DeSantola, A. and Gulati, R., 2017. Scaling: Organizing and Growth in Entrepreneurial Ventures. Academy of Management Annals, 11(2), pp.640-668.
Jin Zhang, J., Lichtenstein, Y. and Gander, J., 2015. Designing scalable digital business models. In Business Models and Modelling (pp. 241-277). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/8396/1/designing_digital_business_models.pdf
Huang, J., Henfridsson, O., Liu, M.J. and Newell, S., 2017. Growing on steroids: rapidly scaling the user base of digital ventures through digital innovation. MIS Quarterly, 41(1).
Juntunen, M., Ahokangas, P. and Nguyen, H., 2018. Business model scalability in the cloud business context. Journal of Business Models, 6(1), pp.19-39. https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Juntunen%2C+M.%2C+Ahokangas%2C+P.+and+Nguyen%2C+H.%2C+2018.+Business+model+scalability+in+the+cloud+business+context.+Journal+of+Business+Models%2C+6%281%29%2C+pp.19-39.&btnG=
Lund, M. and Nielsen, C., 2018. The Concept of Business Model Scalability. Journal of Business Models, 6(1), pp.1-18. http://vbn.aau.dk/ws/files/273461519/03_Article_6_1.pdf
Nielsen, C. and Lund, M., 2018. Building scalable business models. MIT Sloan Management Review, 59(2), pp.65-69.
Pickens, J, 2017. From startup to scalable enterprise: Laying the foundation. Business Horizons. Volume 60, Issue 5, September–October 2017, Pages 587-595.
Westley, F., Antadze, N., Riddell, D.J., Robinson, K. and Geobey, S., 2014. Five configurations for scaling up social innovation: Case examples of nonprofit organizations from Canada. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 50(3), pp.234-260. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0021886314532945?casa_token=n9UTynfXNrwAAAAA:UWN1fVmR9jD0-BtWSHuIEPcreeo1xknZhZRWRIJyTytx_76KvBj6VagDfO2loxZ5L1kA2SnTHdveVK0
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Barringer, B.R., Jones, F.F. and Neubaum, D.O., 2005. A quantitative content analysis of the characteristics of rapid-growth firms and their founders. Journal of business venturing, 20(5), pp.663-687. http://seipa.edu.pl/s/p/artykuly/92/925/High%20growth%20characteristics%20Barringer.pdf
Bocken, N.M., 2015. Sustainable venture capital–catalyst for sustainable start-up success? Journal of Cleaner Production, 108, pp.647-658. https://ac.els-cdn.com/S0959652615006460/1-s2.0-S0959652615006460-main.pdf?_tid=ab2e4a0d-2cf3-4d75-b927-de58565bd37e&acdnat=1552223894_fa09bb7b4db8faed7d48168b110b540f
Bustamante, C. V. (2018). Strategic choices: Accelerated startups’ outsourcing decisions. Journal of Business Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.06.009
Chatterji, A.K., 2009. Spawned with a silver spoon? Entrepreneurial performance and innovation in the medical device industry. Strategic Management Journal, 30(2), pp.185-206. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/smj.729
Day, G.S. and Shea, G.P., 2019. Grow Faster by Changing Your Innovation Narrative. MIT Sloan Management Review, 60(2), pp.1-9.
Eyring A. 2018. Scaling a Startup Is All About People. People & Strategy. 41(3):44-7.
Fisher, G., Kotha, S. and Lahiri, A., 2016. Changing with the times: An integrated view of identity, legitimacy, and new venture life cycles. Academy of Management Review, 41(3), pp.383-409. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Greg_Fisher6/publication/276898174_Changing_with_the_Times_An_Integrated_View_of_Legitimacy_Logics_and_New_Venture_Lifecycles/links/5897209aa6fdcc32dbdbaea2/Changing-with-the-Times-An-Integrated-View-of-Legitimacy-Logics-and-New-Venture-Lifecycles.pdf
Kohler, T., 2016. Corporate accelerators: Building bridges between corporations and startups. Business Horizons, 59(3), pp.347-357.
Nair, A. and Vinoth, T.S., 2016. Performance Measurement System for Start-Ups and Scale-Ups. The Management Accountant Journal, 51(11), pp.41-48.
Schmidt, J. and Keil, T., 2013. What makes a resource valuable? Identifying the drivers of firm-idiosyncratic resource value. Academy of Management Review, 38(2), pp.206-228. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23416442.pdf?casa_token=M3P4880M4lYAAAAA:JflTEuRVfc2ifT1MjieXeJ7Yyao23Q0ZySlt0wd7Txi9VEDuBDEEFfuCJ3dmQu44FfMWhXFMIEfWBjSBFjDW9jaaY_35UlfNrK6U4b8SWWgGrD18ugqdxA
Wasserman, N., 2017. The throne vs. the kingdom: Founder control and value creation in startups. Strategic Management Journal, 38(2), pp.255-277.
Articles in Conference Proceedings
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Furstenau, D. and Auschra, C., 2016. Open digital platforms in health care: Implementation and scaling strategies. Thirty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems, Dublin 2016. http://repository.ittelkom-pwt.ac.id/2481/1/Open%20Digital%20Platforms%20in%20Health%20Care-%20Implementation%20and%20Scaling.pdf
Kelestyn, B., Henfridsson, O. and Nandhakumar, J., 2017. Scaling the User Base of Digital Ventures Through Generative Pattern Replication: The Case of Ridesharing. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/41743/1/paper0594.pdf
Razavi, K., Costache, S., Gardiman, A., Verstoep, K. and Kielmann, T., 2015, June. Scaling VM deployment in an open source cloud stack. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing (pp. 3-10). ACM. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.698.434&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Wang, G. and Nandhakumar, J., 2017. Strategic Swaying: How Startups Grow Digital Platforms. https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?cites=6172900749772113632&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en#d=gs_cit&u=%2Fscholar%3Fq%3Dinfo%3AzDESSbPk0VcJ%3Ascholar.google.com%2F%26output%3Dcite%26scirp%3D0%26hl%3Den
Books
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Eyring, A., 2017. Pacing for Growth: Why Intelligent Restraint Drives Long-term Success. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Ismail, S., 2014. Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it). Diversion Books.
Maurya, A. 2016. Scaling lean: Mastering the key metrics for start-up growth. Penguin.
Sutton, R. I. and Rao, H. 2014. Scaling up excellence: getting to more without settling for less. Random House.
Thiel, P.A. and Masters, B., 2014. Zero to one: Notes on startups, or how to build the future. Broadway Business.
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Blank, S., 2013. The four steps to the epiphany: successful strategies for products that win. BookBaby.
Humble, J., Molesky, J. and O’Reilly, B., 2014. Lean enterprise: How high-performance organizations innovate at scale. O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Reports and Unpublished Papers
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Angjelova, A. and Irion, V., 2016. Scaling up sustainability-oriented innovation.: Case examples of startups collaborating with large companies. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:951137/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. 2016. State of the small and growing business sector. https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.andeglobal.org/resource/resmgr/Research_and_Impact_updates/2016_SOTS_Report.pdf
Bannerjee, S., Bielli, S. and Haley, C., 2016. Scaling Together: Overcoming barriers in corporate-startup collaboration. Nesta. http://www.scaleupinstitute.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/scaling_together.pdf
Coussa, G., Dhami, T., Kaneko, M., Kim, C., Llewellyn, D. and Schmidt, M. 2018. What small and growing businesses need to scale up. March. https://numbersforgood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/SpringImpact-NfG-Report-Final.pdf
Coutu, S., 2014. The scale-up report on UK economic growth. TechUK. http://www.scaleupinstitute.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/scaleup-report_2014.pdf
Deloitte. 2014. The Scale-up challenge. https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/uk/Documents/strategy/deloitte-uk-scale-up-challenge.pdf
Duruflé, G., Hellmann, T.F. and Wilson, K.E., 2017. From start-up to scale-up: examining public policies for the financing of high-growth ventures. http://bruegel.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/WP-2017_04.pdf
European Commission. 2016. Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Europe’s next leaders: The Start-up and Scale-up Initiative. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52016DC0733&from=EN
FinnCap. 2018. Understanding the scale-up challenge. Ambition Nation Report 3. https://www.finncap.com/uploads/media/5b0598db48a0d/finncap-ambition-nation-report-03-may18.pdf?v1
Innovate UK. 2017. Scaling up: the investor perspective How innovative UK businesses can achieve sustainable growth. November. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/656377/17.3215.102_Scaling_up_-_the_investor_perspective-31-10-17-FINAL_digital_version.pdf
Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. 2016. Scale-up UK: Growing businesses, Growing our economy. http://www.scaleupinstitute.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Scale-up-UK_Growing-Businesses_Growing-our-Economy.pdf
Larcker, D.F. and Tayan, B., 2018. Scaling Up: The Implementation of Corporate Governance in Pre-IPO Companies. Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-75.
MIT Industrial Performance Center. 2015. Growing Innovative Companies to Scale: How Does Massachusetts Measure Up?, December. http://ipc.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/ScaleUpReportDec2015.pdf
Ontario Chamber of Commerce. 2016. Breaking barriers: Ontario’s Scale Up Challenge. https://occ.ca/wp-content/uploads/Breaking-Barriers-Ontarios-Scale-Up-Challenge-1.pdf
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). 2018. Enabling SMEs to scale up. https://www.oecd.org/cfe/smes/ministerial/documents/2018-SME-Ministerial-Conference-Plenary-Session-1.pdf
Sachs, G., 2015. Unlocking UK productivity—Internationalization and innovation in SMEs. Goldman Sachs 10,000 Businesses. http://www.scaleupinstitute.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/unlocking-uk-productivity.pdf
Scaleup Institute. 2017. SME Finance Monitor The scaleup perspective. July. http://www.scaleupinstitute.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ScaleUpInstitute_SME_Finance_Monitor_2017_MID_RES.pdf
Scaleup Institute. 2018. Annual scaleup review. November. http://www.scaleupinstitute.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SUI_Review_2018.pdf
The Entrepreneurs Network. 2017. Untapped unicorns – Scaling up female entrepreneurship. March. https://home.barclays/content/dam/home-barclays/documents/news/2017/Untapped-Unicorns-Scaling-up-Female-Entrepreneurship-2017.pdf
University of Toronto’s Impact Centre. 2018. Measuring Canada’s scaleup potential: A framework for a national high-tech funnel. March. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/87349/1/Plant_2018_Measuring%20Canada%27s%20Scaleup%20Pontential.pdf
World Economic Forum. 2014. Fostering innovation driven entrepreneurship in Europe Interactive Workshop, January. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/AM14/WEF_AM14_FosteringInnovationDrivenEntrepreneurshipEurope_SessionSummary.pdf
Cyber Dominant
Barbier, J., Dixit, A., Moriarty, R., Namboodri, C., O’Connell, K., and Riegel, M. 2016. Where to Begin Your Journey to Digital Value in the Private Sector. Cisco. https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/value-at-stake.pdf
Cisco. 2016. Cybersecurity as a growth advantage: key insights https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/assets/offers/pdfs/cybersecurity-growth-advantage.pdf
EY. 2019. Cybersecurity: moving from anchor to enabler of innovation. https://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/Cybersecurity_as_an_enabler_of_innovation/$File/ey-cybersecurity-anchor-or-innovator.pdf
Mueller, U.M. and Allan, K. 2014. How to use cybersecurity to generate business value. EY.https://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/EY_CIO_-_How_to_use_cybersecurity_to_generate_business_value/$FILE/EY-CIO-How-to-use-cybersecurity.pdf
Blogs
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Carucci, R. 2018. How the best entrepreneurs scale their startups for growth. Forbes, June 11. https://www.forbes.com/sites/roncarucci/2018/06/11/how-the-best-entrepreneurs-scale-their-startups-for-growth/#118d8bad3570
Ford Buckley, K., 2017. You’re Growing, But Are You Scaling? 5 Strategies to Help You Scale Growth. Edison Partners. March 22. https://www.edisonpartners.com/blog/5-strategies-scaling-growth
Javid, S. 2018. Want to scale your startup globally? Read this. January. https://medium.com/swlh/want-to-scale-your-startup-globally-read-this-507533d1a6aa
Johnson, J. Scaling Your Business – How Do You Scale Operations? https://tallyfy.com/scaling-your-business/
Marhamat, B. 2018. Scale, Scale, Scale — Your Business Is Ready. Forbes. January 31. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinessdevelopmentcouncil/2018/01/31/scale-scale-scale-your-business-is-ready/#2906466a6563
Patel, N. 2014. 7 Ways to Prepare Your Startup to Scale Up. Inc.com, December. https://www.inc.com/neil-patel/7-ways-to-prepare-your-startup-to-scale-up.html
Robinson. R. 2018. 4 simple ways to scale a startup in an increasingly expensive world. Forbes, November 6. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanrobinson/2018/11/06/scale-startup-increasingly-expensive-world/#6f6aa8557b5b
RocketSpace. 2018. Top 5 Growth Tools Founders Use to Scale Their Startups. July. https://www.rocketspace.com/tech-startups/top-5-growth-tools-founders-use-to-scale-their-startups
Silver, S. 2014. Four Keys to Increasing Renewal Rates. SiriusDecisions. January 10. https://www.siriusdecisions.com/blog/four-keys-to-increasing-renewal-rates
Startup Secrets. 2018. Scaling your Startup. https://www.startupsecrets.com/scaling-your-startup/
Taussig, A. 2011. How to know if your business will scale. Fortune, June. http://fortune.com/2011/06/01/how-to-know-if-your-business-will-scale/
The startups.co platform. 2014. Growth vs scaling. January. https://www.fundable.com/blog/post/growth-vs-scaling
Wagner, E. T. 2013. 5 Steps To Scale Your Business (You Won’t Make It Otherwise). Forbes. November 20. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericwagner/2013/11/20/5-steps-to-scale-your-business-you-wont-make-it-otherwise/#28c5ceb012cf
Cyber Dominant
ECW Network & IT Solutions. A LOOK AT THE VALUE OF A CYBER SECURITY PLAN FOR YOUR BUSINESS. https://www.ecwcomputers.com/a-look-at-the-value-of-a-cyber-security-plan-for-your-business/
Forbes books. Cybersecurity: The secret to business growth. https://forbesbooks.com/cybersecurity-the-21st-century-secret-to-business-growth/
Gunderman, D. 2018. ‘Demonstrating Business Value’: Communicating Cyber Security ROI. Cyber Security Hub. August 16. https://www.cshub.com/security-strategy/news/demonstrating-business-value-communicating-cyber-security-roi
Loveday, A. 2019. Planning business growth in 2019? Get cyber security savvy first. January 4. https://realbusiness.co.uk/cyber-security-tips-smes/