Modern Growth Lifecycle Management Models for Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

One of the most important management challenges for the Hungarian micro, small and medium-sized enterprises certainly is how to handle and coordinate properly the general growth in their lifecycle. As the result of my experiences from the past years, it could be determined that the lifecycle analysis models for the businesses are increasingly well-founded and helpful tools in the everyday challenges. During my research period I collected the previously published lifecycle models, and I created my own breast-wheel lifecycle model, which eliminates the inelasticity of the earlier models, and as well as implementing the typical Hungarian SME's criteria. At the end of the last year within the framework of my research program more than two hundred enterprises were asked with the help of questionnaires in the Western Transdanubia Region. According to my empirical research period I would like to point out that the so far discovered and published western theoretical lifecycle models - which are mainly based on large corporations characteristics - could interpreted and applied to the Hungarian SME's as well - having regard to some national characteristics.