The Entrepreneurship of Sustainable High-Growth Firms: Frameworks, Evidence, and Policy Insights (Routledge Studies in Central and Eastern European Business and Economics)

This book develops a comprehensive theoretical and empirical framework explaining how entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) influence firms’ sustainable high growth (SHG).Its core objective is to conceptualize SHG as a key outcome of entrepreneurial ecosystems and to empirically verify whether, and through which mechanisms, ecosystems foster sustainable firm expansion. The theoretical part is based on a narrative literature review covering entrepreneurial ecosystems, firm growth, and growth determinants.It integrates ecosystem thinking with firm-level perspectives, including the resource-based view, and advances theory by defining the output of EEs as sustainable high-growth entrepreneurship-growth that combines size dynamics, profitability, and social benefits. Methodologically, the book makes a strong contribution by applying a quantitative, large-scale approach that remains rare in EE research.Using firm-level microdata for over 43,000 enterprises and regional data for Polish ecosystems