Building an integrative model of small business growth

By Johan Wiklund, Holger Patzelt, Dean A. Shepherd. 2009

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The purpose of this article is to develop an integrative model of small business growth that is both broad in scope and parsimonious in nature. Such a “big picture” model provides an opportunity (1) to gauge how much we really know about small business growth, when we simultaneously consider the constructs from the dominant perspectives, (2) to assess the contribution of each of these perspectives, (3) to examine the indirect effects that some constructs from one perspective might have on small business growth through constructs from another perspective, and (4) to consider different levels of analysis. Based on an analysis of data from 413 small businesses, we derive a set of propositions that suggest how entrepreneurial orientation, environmental characteristics, firm resources, and managers’ personal attitudes directly and/or indirectly influence the growth of small businesses.

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

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Founders’ human capital and the performance of UK new technology based firms (2012, background): “Finally, by collaborating with established companies, a new firm can enhance its reputation (McGee et al. 1995; Stuart et al. 1999; Lee et al. 2001; Wiklund et al. 2009 ).”
Managerial capabilities and paths to growth as determinants of high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises (2011, background): “Nevertheless, in spite of the abundance of such work, the literature is ‘highly fragmented’ (Wiklund, 1997; Wiklund et al., 2009).”
Strategic entrepreneurship and small firm growth in Ghana (2014, background): “Many of these studies have focused on developed and transition economies (Andersson and Tell, 2009; Hoxha and Capelleras, 2010; Wiklund et al., 2009); the volume of research that explores small firm growth in developing countries (Doern and Goss, forthcoming, 2012), and more specifically using large”
Organizational learning, entrepreneurial orientation, and the role of university engagement in SMEs (2016, methodology): “Drawing on prior studies (Ucbasaran, 2004; Wiklund et al., 2009; Zhao et al., 2011), a five-item scale was developed to measure the dependent variable, OL.”
What happens to gazelles? The importance of dynamic management strategy (2010, background): “by Davidsson et al. (2007), Henrekson and Johansson (2009), and Wiklund et al. (2009) .”
Optimism and chance: The elephants in the entrepreneurship room (2011, methodology): “Variables relating to owner characteristics and enterprise strategies are then used to examine whether, individually or collectively, these differ between the two groups of firms (Henrekson and Johansson, 2010 and Wiklund et al., 2009 provide helpful overviews of this literature).”
Distinguishing micro-businesses from SMEs: a systematic review of growth constraints (2016, background): “mediated by other factors such as entrepreneurial orientation which unveils that, regardless of the type or level of resources available, growth is contingent on OME’s entrepreneurial behaviour, namely their ability and intention to use them for growth (Wiklund et al., 2009).”
International entrepreneurship: A critical analysis of studies in the past two decades and future directions for research (2012, background): “…scholars consider creativity as a fundamental element in the entrepreneurial process (Brazeal and Herbert 1999; Kirzner 1999; Ward 2004; Ko and Butler 2007; Wiklund et al. 2007; Baron and Tang 2011) which is capable of explaining the creative combination of resources and innovative outcomes.”
Did firm age, experience, and access to finance count? SME performance after the global financial crisis (2018, background): “Despite this substantial research volume, theoretical development remains fragmented and slow (Davidsson & Wiklund, 2000; Wiklund et al., 2009) and empirical evidence highly inconsistent (Storey, 1994; Shepherd & Wiklund, 2009) 1 .”