Knowledge‐based resources, entrepreneurial orientation, and the performance of small and medium‐sized businesses

By Johan Wiklund, Dean A. Shepherd. 2003

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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What really happens to small and medium-sized enterprises in a global economic recession? UK evidence on sales and job dynamics (2015, positive): “Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) provides the firm with a basis for entrepreneurial decisions and actions (Wiklund & Shepherd, 2003) and has been extensively studied in the entrepreneurship literature.”
Does Family Involvement in Management Reduce the Risk of Business Failure? The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation (2016, background): “Strategic management literature has highlighted the key role of EO in achieving higher firm performance (e.g., Pérez-Luño, Wiklund, & Valle Cabrera, 2011; Wiklund & Shepherd, 2003).”
Unpacking Organizational Ambidexterity: Dimensions, Contingencies, and Synergistic Effects (2009, methodology): “Like others employing cross-sectional data to study orientation constructs (e.g. Atuahene-Gima & Ko, 2001; Wiklund & Shepherd, 2003), we have relied on the assumption that a firm's orientation with respect to exploration and exploitation is quite stable over time.”
Knowledge flow and inter-firm networks: The influence of network resources, spatial proximity and firm size (2010, background): “These resources are often considered to be concomitant with both the size of firms and their capacity to undertake innovation (Wiklund and Shepherd 2003 ; Thorpe et al.”
Incentive Mechanisms, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Technology Commercialization: Evidence from China's Transitional Economy* (2007, positive): “The measure of EO was composed of six items mainly based on an existing scale reported in the literature (Atuahene-Gima and Ko, 2001; Li, Liu, and Zhao, 2006; Wiklund and Shepherd, 2003): (1) a strong emphasis on R&D, technological leadership, and innovation; (2) a strong tendency to seek high-risk,”
Organizational networks and the process of corporate entrepreneurship: how the motivation, opportunity, and ability to act affect firm knowledge, learning, and innovation (2015, background): “That is, in addition to the resources themselves, the organizational and strategic processes of firms are necessary to consider as they both enable the discovery and exploitation of opportunities for the organization and work to facilitate the manipulation of resources into value-creating strategies”
The effect of intrapreneurship on corporate performance (2012, background): “…on small and medium-sized companies has found, in the particular case of dynamic and hostile environments, that there is a positive relationship between intrapreneurship and corporate performance (Zahra, 1995; Antoncic and Hisrich, 2001; Rodsutti and Swierczek, 2002; Wiklund and Shepherd, 2003).”
The relationship between resources, entrepreneurial orientation and performance in farm-based ventures (2011, background): “Research within corporate entrepreneurship suggests that firms often benefit from having internal environments that stimulate creativity and autonomy to pursue ideas and opportunities (Zahra and Covin 1995 ).”
International Entrepreneurship Leveraging Internal and External Knowledge Sources (2009, neutral): “As prior knowledge leads to the identifi cation of opportunities (Shane, 2000; Wiklund and Shepherd, 2003), new ventures with greater stocks of international knowledge attained through their TMTs’ prior experiences are believed to identify more international opportunities.”
Entrepreneurial Orientation and Business Performance: An Assessment of past Research and Suggestions for the Future (2009, neutral): “There is little consensus on what constitutes suitable moderators, however, and both internal variables such as knowledge (Wiklund & Shepherd, 2003 ), and various environmental variables (e.g., Tan & Tan, 2005) have been included in studies of EO.”