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Narrative Interplay in the Discovery of SME Fundamental Constraints to Growth

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are vital economic engines in the global economy. More directly, they improve the health of their immediate regional economic and social well-being. Scholar-practitioners with the aim to better understand the critical indicators influencing SMEs’ readiness for growth continues to investigate factors encouraging or prohibiting growth. Many of these well-recognized indicators include company financial indicators, access to capital, and the characteristics of the founders themselves. Because the discovery of these key factors were primarily based on companies’ self reporting of their own success stories or biggest headaches, the classification often did not illuminate the deeper story dialectics and multiplicity (Boje, 2001 & 2018) embedded in the discovery process itself and the discourse between SMEs’ symptomatic reflections and the actual fundamental constraints to growth. Through exploring the story interplays shared by economic development counselors, this study...