Enterprise Growth
Explore real-world insights, reflect on your practice, and find inspiration for actionable change
Enterprise Growth is a collection of 19 articles that were originally published in the online EXPRESS magazine. Enterprise owners can use these international insights to reflect on their own practice and also create actions for change that are tailored to their personal and organisational contexts.
EXPRESS is the online magazine published three times a year by the Entrepreneurial Mindset Network. Since its launch in 2018, it has established itself as a dynamic and inclusive global platform, featuring contributions from authors in 67 countries.Entrepreneurial Mindset Network is an inclusive, international community of practice where anyone can learn to use entrepreneurial behaviours and make their unique contribution to the world.Paul Coyle is the Founder and Executive Director of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Network and the editor of the Express magazine. He is an expert in the entrepreneurial mindset, innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and organisational change.
RI:SE Mindset Development Framework
To date 19 articles have been published in EXPRESS on the theme of Enterprise Growth.Use the Network's RI:SE Mindset Development Framework to support your personal and organisational development. RI:SE stands for Reflect & Initiate : Scale & Excel.Reflect & Initiate: use the real-life lessons from the Express magazine articles and executive summary to Reflect on your personal goals and to Initiate actions to strengthen your entrepreneurial behaviours.Scale and Excel: the Network's premium development services enable leaders to Scale entrepreneurial ways of working, building from individuals to teams, and creating a culture in which everyone can Excel.
Executive Summary
Across this collection, every article addresses a key dimension of creating, operating, developing, or expanding an independent enterprise—whether a tech startup, a regional SME, a multi-generational family firm, or a social venture. Enterprise Growth serves as an ideal umbrella because it encompasses the full lifecycle of business development rather than just one stage. An analysis of all the articles reveals the following common challenges and practical solutions suggested by the authors:
Enterprise leadership and mindset: Independent business owners across global contexts demonstrate that long-term enterprise success relies on cultivating a resilient, adaptable entrepreneurial mindset capable of identifying market opportunities and solving complex societal problems.Managing growth and operational transition: A central challenge across many profiles is navigating the shift from initial startup creation to scale-up execution, where founders must move from technical product development to stabilising supply chains, building sales capacity, and establishing clear team roles.Overcoming financial and infrastructure barriers: Emerging and regional enterprises frequently struggle with restricted access to capital, bureaucratic red tape, inadequate local infrastructure, and severe cash flow bottlenecks caused by delayed customer payments or unfavourable terms.Mitigating talent and skills shortages: Enterprise owners regularly confront labour supply issues and digital skill deficits, making cross-border talent acquisition, strategic upskilling programmes, and gender-inclusive recruitment essential for sustaining enterprise momentum.Strengthening governance and succession: In family businesses and multigenerational firms, structural informality and generational transition gaps pose existential risks, which require establishing proactive governance frameworks, formal decision-making bodies, and structured successor grooming.Building dynamic capabilities during economic crisis: Practical experience during market turbulence demonstrates that resilient firms survive by unlearning rigid norms, validating new assumptions, and executing agile operational pivots to meet evolving customer demands.Leveraging collaborative peer networks: Founders and leaders avoid the isolation of enterprise ownership by actively embedding themselves within supportive peer communities, business incubators, and advisory boards that provide objective feedback without expensive overheads.Unlocking research and ecosystem synergies: Realising maximum commercial value requires bridging the gap between academic research and daily operations by aligning technical opportunities with market demand and engaging actively with local innovation hubs.Reflecting on personal leadership and purpose: Enterprise leaders achieve long-term organisational alignment by continually reinforcing a shared purpose among their team, putting ego aside when strategic demands change, and evaluating whether their own habits hinder organisational growth.Creating tailored actions for change: To foster sustainable development, owners must conduct rigorous market validation, establish clear 90-day execution plans, and invest in formal governance and operational systems before crisis or growth forces chaotic change.(Summary generated by Gemini Notebook).
Enterprise Growth Articles
Thank you to the authors of these global insights on Enterprise Growth for taking the time to share their inspiring stories from Albania, Canada, England, France, Hungary, India, Montenegro, Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, Türkiye, and Ukraine.Click on any image to read the article on screen or to download a PDF.
List of references and authors
Copyright notice. You may quote, paraphrase or refer to information in these articles on condition that you credit the author and publisher by using the following references.Bux, U. (2024). Fostering talent in the European health sector. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: EXPRESS 7(3). https://express-volume-7.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Urška Bux (WorkInHealth Foundation, France) PDF linkChenier, R. (2024). Building an ecosystem to help entrepreneurs start-up and scale-up. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 7(1). https://express-volume-7.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Richard Chenier (Québec Tech, Canada) PDF linkCiritci, S. (2021). Anatolian Valley - a new entrepreneurship zone. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 4(1). https://express-volume-4.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Selahattin Ciritci (Freelance researcher/trainer, Türkiye) PDF linkDjebali, Z. (2025). Lessons from a life-long entrepreneurial journey. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 8(3). https://express-volume-8.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Zeineb Djebali (University of Liverpool Management School, England) PDF linkFrick, J. (2022). How research supports business. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 5(2). https://express-volume-5.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Jan Frick (University of Stavanger, Norway) PDF linkFrick, J. (2018). Business: scaling for success. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 1(2). https://express-volume-1.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Jan Frick (University of Stavanger, Norway) PDF linkGrozavescu, T. (2020). An entrepreneurial journey. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 3(1). https://express-volume-3.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Toma Grozavescu (SMARTERS, Romania) PDF linkHazizi, T. (2024). Developing competences for tourism entrepreneurship in Albania. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 7(1). https://express-volume-7.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Teuta Hazizi (University of Elbasan "Aleksandër Xhuvani", Albania) PDF linkKhawar, S. (2026). Supporting Startups: reflections of an entrepreneurship educator. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 9(1). https://express-volume-9.entrepreneurial-mindset.network/
Sara Khawar (SolBridge International School of Business, South Korea) PDF linkMarosvölgyi, D. (2025). Innovation, gender-inclusivity and transformative deep tech startups. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 8(2). https://express-volume-8.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Dóra Marosvölgyi (DARE Innovations, Hungary) PDF linkMinić, L. (2021). Social entrepreneurs fighting climate change. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 4(3). https://express-volume-4.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Luka Minić (Independent educator, Montenegro) PDF linkMols, P. (2023). An adventure in entrepreneurship: building a community of small business owners. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 6(3). https://express-volume-6.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Peter Mols (Founder and Business Coach, England) PDF linkNidaazzi, H. (2026). Entrepreneurship and family legacy in Morocco. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 9(2). https://express-volume-9.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Hamza Nidaazzi (Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco) PDF linkOmar, Z. (2020). The best thing about being an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 3(1). https://express-volume-3.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Zohra Omar (Mentoring Hub, Pakistan) PDF linkPetrenko, I. (2019). Bringing entrepreneurship to the Ukraine. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 2(1). https://express-volume-2.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Ivan Petrenko (Lviv Business School, Ukraine) PDF linkVaillant, Y. (2022). Towards the entrepreneurial society. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 5(2). https://express-volume-5.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Yancy Vaillant (TBS Education, Spain) PDF linkVarshney, N. (2022). Entrepreneurship and family business in India. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 5(3). https://express-volume-5.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Nandini Varshney (Entrepreneurship Development Institute, India) PDF linkVillegas-Mateos, A. (2023). How startups find opportunities, people and resources in their local ecosystem. Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 6(1). https://express-volume-6.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Allan Villegas-Mateos (HEC Paris, Qatar) PDF linkWasim, J. (2020). How can small business stay open? Entrepreneurial Mindset Network: Express 3(2). https://express-volume-3.entrepreneurial-mindset.network
Jay Wasim (Robert Gordon University, Scotland) PDF link
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