Entrepreneurial Orientation and Small Business Performance: A Configurational Approach

By Johan Wiklund, Dean A. Shepherd. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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The Importance of Slack for New Organizations Facing ‘Tough’ Environments (2010, background): “For organizations to be competitive, strategic decisions must be comprehensive by accounting for multiple contextual dimensions (Miller and Friesen, 1983; Wiklund and Shepherd, 2005).”
The Interface between Organizational Learning Capability, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and SME Growth (2016, background): “It is now well documented in the literature that relying solely on an entrepreneurial mind-set provides an incomplete understanding of SMEs’ performance (Wiklund and Shepherd 2005).”
Adoption of climate‐smart agriculture among smallholder farmers: Does farmer entrepreneurship matter? (2021, background): “EO is the manifestation of proactive and innovative behaviour coupled with readiness to pursue opportunities under uncertainty (Wiklund and Shepherd, 2005).”
International Exposure Through Network Relationships: Implications for New Venture Internationalization (2013, background): “From a configuration perspective (Miller, 1996 and Wiklund and Shepherd, 2005), we examine the threeway interaction of the three constructs of new venture age and international exposure from informal and formal network relationships.”
Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance in Indian SMEs: Universal and contingency perspectives (2016, background): “EO is rooted in the notion that specific management philosophies and strategy-making processes together represent an organizing structure through which knowledge is combined and embodied in new products, processes, and operational activities (Wiklund and Shepherd, 2005).”
Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Performance of Religious Congregations as Predicted by Rational Choice Theory (2010, background): “Since its introduction, the EO construct has been most widely evaluated in manufacturing settings where innovations are definable as tangible new products and changes in manufacturing processes (Covin & Slevin, 1989; Wiklund, 1999; Wiklund & Shepherd, 2003, 2005).”
Entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation as drivers of product innovation success: A study of exporters from a developing economy (2013, background): “Thus, being entrepreneurially oriented can help exporters achieve product innovation success; the existing empirical work appears to support this general proposition (e.g. Baker and Sinkula, 2009; Frishammar and Horte, 2007; Knight and Cavusgil, 2004; Kropp et al., 2006, 2008; Wiklund and Shepherd, ”