The Effect of Small Business Managers’ Growth Motivation on Firm Growth: A Longitudinal Study

By Frédéric Delmar, Johan Wiklund. 2008

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

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Why Create Value for Others? An Exploration of Social Entrepreneurial Motives (2016, background): “Motivation is formed by a number of factors, including emotions (Batson and Shaw 1991), intentions (Krueger, Reilly, and Carsrud 2000), and past experience (Delmar and Wiklund 2008).”
Entrepreneurship and the determinants of firm survival within regions: human capital, growth motivation and locational conditions (2017, unknown): “Empirical studies have found evidence linking growth aspirations and intentions with achieved growth levels (Barringer, Jones, and Neubaum 2005; Delmar and Wiklund 2008; Moen, Heggeseth, and Lome 2016).”
Obstacles to the growth of new SMEs in South Africa: A principal component analysis approach (2010, background): “According to Delmar and Wiklund (2008) the business environment has a significant impact on the growth of new small enterprises.”
Focus on opportunities as a mediator of the relationship between business owners' age and venture growth (2012, unknown): “Our approach of measuring venture growth is in line with other studies conducted in small business settings (e.g., Baum et al., 2001; Delmar and Wiklund, 2008; Wiklund and Shepherd, 2003).”
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).”
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 .”
Financial Decision Making in Family Firms (2014, background): “…example, the theory has been linked to entrepreneurial intentions (Krueger, Reilly, & Carsrud, 2000), growth motivation in entrepreneurial ventures (Delmar & Wiklund, 2008), exit intentions in ventures (DeTienne & Cardon, 2012), succession in family firms (Sharma et al., 2003), and career decision…”
Entrepreneurial leadership, capabilities and firm growth (2015, background): “Furthermore, growth intentions (broadly defined to include aspirations, expectations) predict growth (Barringer et al., 2005; Delmar and Wiklund, 2008; Wiklund and Shepherd, 2003a).”
Small business performance: business, strategy and owner‐manager characteristics (2013, background): “Moving away from the analytical unit of the SME, performance has also been linked to the growth aspirations and motivations of owner-managers (Wiklund and Shepherd, 2003), as well as their psychological characteristics and “antecedent attributes” (Burns, 2001), including education and prior experien”
Power law distributions in entrepreneurship: : Implications for theory and research (2015, background): “In entrepreneurship, research has similarly demonstrated that aspirations or expectations for growth are predictive of the actual growth outcomes that ensue (Delmar and Wiklund, 2008; Mok and van den Tillaart, 1990; Wiklund and Shepherd, 2003).”
Small business responses to a major economic downturn: Empirical perspectives from New Zealand and the United Kingdom (2012, background): “Delmar and Wiklund (2008) claim that respondents were able to correctly recall sales and employment data up to three years previously.”
The Effects of General and Specific Human Capital on Long–Term Growth and Failure of Newly Founded Businesses (2013, unknown): “Growth intention, in turn, affects firm growth (Delmar & Wiklund, 2008).”