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Supergrowth Companies: Entrepreneurs in Action

Supergrowth Companies: Entrepreneurs in Action

by Bernard Taylor (Author), JohnHarrison (Author), Ann Todd (Author), Mahen Tampoe (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

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Synopsis

Supergrowth Companies is based on extensive research following the progress of over 200 businesses, including Anita Roddick and The Body Shop and Alan Sugar and Amstrad. It features interviews with company executives and a collection of over fifty case studies. It also reports on ten years of research involving fifteen researchers in Britain and Germany and producing guidelines concerning new business opportunities, growth strategies, leadership styles, organization expansion, overseas expansion, strategies for service businesses, managing risk and uncertainty. Supergrowth Companies is aimed primarily at managers and entrepreneurs who want to learn from the experience of a wide range of businesses so that theirs may grow faster and more profitably. It will also be of interest to students of business growth and managers on corporate development programmes.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 219
 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
Published: 31 Aug 1996
ISBN 10: 0750627506
ISBN 13: 9780750627504

Media Reviews
'Taylor and Harrison's Supergrowth Companies - Entrepreneurs in Action combines careful scholarship, practical case studies and uncommon insight in a path-breaking study of Europe's economic engines of prosperity. Beyond confirming important similarities in leadership practice with America's winning performers, Supergrowth Companies discovers some new secrets of European entrepreneurial success. Must reading for those who seek to grow great businesses from great ideas.' Richard E. Cavanagh, President and CEO, The Conference Board Inc., New York and co-author The Winning Performance: How America's High Growth Midsized Companies Succeed. ' The book's strategies include surviving recession, negotiating barriers to growth,growing a successful service and more'.
Author Bio
He is Project Director of the European Councils on Corporate Strategy and Board Effectiveness, Editor of Long Range Planning and author of 20 books on various aspects of Strategic Management. He is also a consultant to business and government internationally. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a director on the R&D Advisory Board of SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals. Before joining Henley Management College he held responsible positions with Procter & Gamble, Rank Xerox, the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the University of Bradford Management Centre.