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Strategic Orientations, Acquisitive Growth, and Continuous Adaptation

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Growth modes are of utmost importance when companies intend to expand their business. For decades, organic and acquisitive growth modes were treated as a dichotomy, or opposite ends of a bipolar scale. Organic growth can be described as a process of business expansion (output, customers, new products) that comes from a company’s existing business.

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Dewanger, S., Bauer, F. (2019). Strategic Orientations, Acquisitive Growth, and Continuous Adaptation. In: Stumpf-Wollersheim, J., Horsch, A. (eds) Forum Mergers & Acquisitions 2019. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-26818-3_6

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