Are we Comparing Apples with Apples or Apples with Oranges? Appropriateness of Knowledge Accumulation across Growth Studies

By Dean A. Shepherd, Johan Wiklund. 2009

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

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Citations in the corpus

Determinants and Dimensions of Firm Growth (2009, neutral): “Relative growth is commonly used in studies of firm growth (Birch, 1987; Delmar, Davidsson & Gartner, 2003; Shepherd & Wiklund, 2009), and it is usually measured by the growth rate in percentage terms.”
Power law distributions in entrepreneurship: : Implications for theory and research (2015, background): “…of venture capital funding, IPO (under)pricing, wealth creation, and other or combined indicators of “performance” or “success” (Davidsson, 2004; Delmar, et al., 2003; Garnsey, et al., 2006; Leitch, et al., 2010; Shepherd and Wiklund, 2009; Steffens, et al., 2009; Van de Ven and Engleman, 2004).”
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 .”
An Assessment of Resource-Based Theorizing on Firm Growth and Suggestions for the Future (2018, methodology): “Journals identified by Shepherd and Wiklund (2009) include Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Management Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship…”
High-growth firms: Introduction to the special section (2014, methodology): “Research has investigated whether HGFs are small (Delmar, 1997; Delmar and Davidsson, 1998; Weinzimmer et al., 1998; Delmar et al., 2003; Shepherd and Wiklund, 2009); young (Delmar et al., 2003; Haltiwanger et al., 2013); belong to an enterprise group (Delmar et al., 2003); are family-owned…”
Planning for Growth: Life Stage Differences in Family Firms (2013, neutral): “Indeed, growth indicators are considered common dependent variables in entrepreneurship research (Shepherd & Wiklund, 2009).”
Implications of Intra-Family and External Ownership Transfer of Family Firms: Short-Term and Long-Term Performance Differences (2011, background): “Growth refers to changing size over time (Shepherd and Wiklund, 2009).”
Roots to Grow: Family Firms and Local Embeddedness in Rural and Urban Contexts (2018, methodology): “…Gilbert, McDougall & Audretsch, 2006; Shepherd & Wiklund, 2009; Wiklund, 1998), research on this topic has focused on both the antecedents and outcomes of growth, yet empirical evidence is somehow conflicting (Davidsson & Wiklund, 2006; Shepherd & Wiklund, 2009; Achtenhagen, Naldi, & Melin, 2013).”
The strategic management of high-growth firms:a review and theoretical conceptualization (2017, neutral): “Regarding the type of growth, the HGF literature examines three diverse types of growth: 1) growth in sales (interchangeably called turnover or revenue), 2) growth in number of employees (Delmar, 1997; Shepherd and Wiklund, 2009), and 3) growth in productivity”
The Resource‐Based View in Entrepreneurship: A Content‐Analytical Comparison of Researchers' and Entrepreneurs' Views (2016, result): “In sum, our findings suggest the potential of a comprehensive treatment of resource outcomes, including nonfinancial outcomes, for the development of a RBV in the realm of entrepreneurship (for reviews of performance outcomes, see Shepherd and Wiklund 2009).”