Not All High-Growth Firms Are Alike: Capturing and Tagging Ohio’s Gazelles
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-29-2021
Publication Title
Economic Development Quarterly
Research Center
Center for Economic Development
Abstract
In this study, the present a statistically valid typology of high-growth firms (HGFs), also known as gazelles, to determine if payroll and job growth patterns differ between groups or clusters. Cluster–discriminant analysis was conducted on a cohort of 26,104 HGFs s in Ohio, using data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages from 2010 to 2015. Only 1.2% of all Ohio’s firms can be classified as high growth. The larger herd of gazelles grows consistently, while the other, much smaller pack experiences short, intense growth spurts. Roughly 30% of the two gazelle clusters (Consistent High Growth and Volatile High Growth) are in the information service, financial service, and professional and business service industries, compared with 18% in the low- and slow-growth cluster. The nongazelle HGF cluster has proportionately more businesses in manufacturing and the leisure and hospitality industries than the gazelle clusters.
Repository Citation
Piazza, Merissa and Hill, Edward W., "Not All High-Growth Firms Are Alike: Capturing and Tagging Ohio’s Gazelles" (2021). All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications. 0 1 2 3 1735.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_facpub/1735
Original Citation
Piazza, M. C., & Hill, E. (Ned). (2021). Not All High-Growth Firms Are Alike: Capturing and Tagging Ohio’s Gazelles. Economic Development Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912424211023556
DOI
10.1177/08912424211023556
