Artikel

Strategies for sustainable growth in JSE-listed companies

Achieving high growth that is sustainable is an elusive goal for all but a few great companies. Despite the relative importance of this topic, limited research has been performed to explain this phenomenon, especially in a South African context. This paper adopts an exploratory approach to investigate some of the variables that influence company growth, as well as their choice of strategy. A mixed method incorporating descriptive statistics, regression analysis and qualitative evaluation, was used to test the research questions. A sample of 202 JSE companies indicated 28% were high growth entities, 39% medium growth and 33% achieved growth of less than 10%. A further survey of 30 Chief Executive Officers (CEO) indicated that they believed the top five growth drivers were acquisitions, managerial talent, operational efficiency, an entrepreneurial flair (low growth companies excluded) and the development of networks and partnerships. The respondents, however, ranked the number and importance of these growth drivers very differently with high growth companies citing a broader range of growth drivers than the other respondents. Quite surprisingly, the respondents appear to have underestimated the importance of industry and economy effects. Furthermore, high growth companies appeared to develop a broader spectrum of strategies that were more likely to be linked to their choice of growth driver. Interestingly, high growth companies were the only respondents to develop formal partnership and incentive strategies. In conclusion, the results re-enforce the impression that successful organizations develop a multiplicity of strategies that are always underpinned by operational efficiency.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: South African Journal of Business Management ; ISSN: 2078-5976 ; Volume: 43 ; Year: 2012 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 79-94 ; Cape Town: African Online Scientific Information Systems (AOSIS)

Klassifikation
Management

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Eitzen, C.
Sartorius, K.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
African Online Scientific Information Systems (AOSIS)
(wo)
Cape Town
(wann)
2012

DOI
doi:10.4102/sajbm.v43i3.476
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Eitzen, C.
  • Sartorius, K.
  • African Online Scientific Information Systems (AOSIS)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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