Growth is an imperative for corporations. Growth provides corporations with expanding opportunities enabling them to attract the best executives or motivating workers. Growth is also a means for maintaining or enhancing a firm’s relative competitive position. Avoidance of growth in a market where incumbent rivals are relentlessly seeking to increase their market shares can result in a serious loss of market position with the attendant adverse impacts on profitability that can jeopardize long-term survival. Since growth ultimately must come from [...]