Aspiring for, and Achieving Growth: The Moderating Role of Resources and Opportunities

By Johan Wiklund, Dean A. Shepherd. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

The significance of sustained entrepreneurial orientation on performance of firms – A longitudinal analysis (2007, methodology): “Wiklund and Shepherd (2003a) argue that by investigating a firm’s entrepreneurial orientation it is possible to explain, at least in part, the managerial process that allows some firms to be ahead of their competitors because EO facilitates firm action based upon early signals from its internal and…”
Human capital and entrepreneurial success: A meta-analytical review (2011, background): “For example, human capital can only result in high growth if the entrepreneur has the aspirations to expand the business (Wiklund & Shepherd, 2003).”
Making the Most of Failure Experiences: Exploring the Relationship between Business Failure and the Identification of Business Opportunities (2016, result): “…in the participants and are well-documented contexts within which entrepreneurs commonly identify actual business opportunities (Mowery, Nelson, Sampat, & Ziedonis, 2004; Shane, 2000, 2001; Wiklund & Shepherd, 2003) and are consistent with prior accounts of opportunity identification (Shane, 2000).”
Entrepreneurial intentions of South African rural university students: A test of the theory of planned behaviour (2014, background): “It was also found that greater growth aspiration was significantly associated with higher business growth (Wiklund & Shepherd, 2003) and entrepreneurial intentions are significantly related to entrepreneurial behaviour (Kolvereid & Isaksen, 2006; Zhang & Yang, 2006).”
The theory of planned behavior in entrepreneurship research: what we know and future directions (2015, background): “Finally, five articles fall into the new venture development behavior theme of the literature (Delmar and Wiklund 2008; Henley 2007; LeBrasseur et al. 2003; Stenholm 2011; Wiklund and Shepherd 2003).”
Understanding the small business owner: what they really aim at and how this relates to firm performance (2008, background): “This is affected by the opportunities of the business environment offers (Wiklund and Shepherd, 2003).”
Opportunity Identification and Pursuit: Does an Entrepreneur’s Human Capital Matter? (2008, background): “A number of studies have considered the general and specific human capital profiles of entrepreneurs (Bosma et al., 2004; Brüderl et al., 1992; Gimeno et al., 1997; Wiklund and Shepherd, 2003).”
The Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention of Young Researchers: Combining the Theory of Planned Behavior with the Triple Helix Model (2019, methodology): “…TPB has been used to explain and predict different types of entrepreneurial intention, such venture creation (e.g., Kolvereid and Isaksen 2006; Krueger and Brazeal 1994; Li~n an, Urbano, and Guerrero 2011) and new venture development (e.g., Delmar and Wiklund 2008; Wiklund and Shepherd 2003).”
Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurial Growth Aspirations (2013, background): “Thus, Kolvereid and Bullvag (1996), Baum et al. (1998), Baum et al. (2001), Wiklund and Shepherd (2003) and Delmar and Wiklund (2008) find a positive significant link between entrepreneurs' growth aspirations and actual growth 13 .”
Start‐up Motivations and Growth Intentions of Minority Nascent Entrepreneurs (2010, background): “In a related study, Wiklund and Shepherd (2003) used Ajzen’s (1991, 1987) theory of planned behavior to examine the moderating effect of resources and opportunities on the relationship between growth aspirations and actual growth.”
Firm Growth: Empirical Analysis (2010, neutral): “Wiklund and Shepherd (2003) ﬁnd a small positive relationship between growth aspiration and growth rate, but the magnitude of this eﬀect rises somewhat if growth aspirations are interacted with the entrepreneur’s education and experience.”
Human Capital and Search–Based Discovery: A Study of High–Tech Entrepreneurship (2013, background): “Years of education has also been commonly used in general human capital research (e.g., Davidsson & Honig; Gimeno et al., 1997; Ucbasaran et al., 2008; Wiklund & Shepherd).”