Even though the measures taken to support SME growth are crucial to the whole economy, the relevant literature has started to focus on the subject from late 1980s but still much remains to be done. The aim of this study is to investigate the firm and industry level factors that affect the growth of SMEs and provide an empirical evidence using the data from Turkey as an emerging market. In the study, firms are grouped as high-growth and low-growth ones based on their sales data and this classification is made for both nominal and industry adjusted sales growth rates. The hypotheses in this...