Johan Wiklund

Johan Wiklund is the Al Berg Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, USA, Professor Two at Nord University, Norway, Visiting Professor at Lund University, Sweden, and inaugural RMIT Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Australia. His research interests include entrepreneurship and mental health as well as the entry, performance, and exit of entrepreneurial firms. He is considered a leading authority in entrepreneurship research with over 60 articles appearing in leading entrepreneurship and management journals and over 17,000 citations. He is incoming Editor-in-Chief for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and previously editor for Journal of Business Venturing and Small Business Economics. A prolific advisor of Ph.D. students, he received the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Mentor Award in 2011.

Research Topics

• Entrepreneurship and mental health
• Performance
• Growth
• Exit
• Failure of entrepreneurial firms

Professor Wiklund's research interests include entrepreneurship and mental health as well as the performance, growth, exit, and failure of entrepreneurial firms.

Working Papers

• "Business failure and institutions in entrepreneurship: A systematic review and research agenda", Small Business Economics (with Lee, C., Amezcua, A., Abdul-Qadir, E.)
• "Firm Growth: Assessing Resource Based Explainations", (with Nason, R.)
• "Firm Growth and the role of Organizational Boundary Permeability.", (with Nason, R.)
• "Neither Open Nor Closed: Organizational Boundary Permeability And New Venture Growth. ", (with Nason, R., McKelvie, A.)
• "Driven to Succeed? A self-determination perspective on entrepreneurial performance", Journal of Business Venturing (with Bort, J., Moss, T.)
• "Walking the talk: Examining intrinsic motivation in prosocial microlending", Journal of Business Venturing (with Bort, J., Moss, T.)

Selected Publications

• "Entrepreneurial learning under uncertainty: exploring the role of self-efficacy and perceived complexity", Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 1-23, 2020 (with Markowska, M.)
• "Mental Health in the Family Business: A Conceptual Model and a Research Agenda", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 44(1), 55-80, 2020 (with Miller, D., Yu, W.)
• "Orchestrating boundaries: The effect of R&D boundary permeability on new venture growth", Journal of Business Venturing, 34(1), 63-79, 2019 (with Nason, R., McKelvie, A., Hitt, M., Yu, W.)
• "ADHD Symptoms, Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO), and Firm Performance", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 104225871989298, 2019 (with Yu, W., Pérez-Luño, A.)
• "Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect and Self-Employment Transitions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 104225871881835, 2019 (with Nikolaev, B., Shir, N.)
• "Theories from the Lab: How Research on Science Commercialization can Contribute to Management Studies", Journal of Management Studies, 56(5), 865-894, 2019 (with Fini, R., Rasmussen, E., Wright, M.)
• "Simple Rules, Templates, and Heuristics! An Attempt to Deconstruct the Craft of Writing an Entrepreneurship Paper", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 104225871984588, 2019 (with Shepherd, D.)
• "Conquering Relevance: Entrepreneurship Research's Grand Challenge", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 43(3), 419-436, 2019 (with Wright, M., Zahra, S.)
• "Entrepreneurship and well-being: Past, present, and future", Journal of Business Venturing, 34(4), 579-588, 2019 (with Nikolaev, B., Shir, N., Foo, M., Bradley, S.)
• "Gender gaps and reentry into entrepreneurial ecosystems after business failure", Small Business Economics, 53(2), 517-531, 2019 (with Simmons, S., Levie, J., Bradley, S., Sunny, S.)
• "Entrepreneurial impulsivity is not rational judgment", Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2019
• "Gender gaps and reentry into entrepreneurial ecosystems after business failure", Small Business Economics, 2018 (with Simmons, S., Bradley, S., Levie, J., Sunny, S.)
• "MENTAL DISORDERS IN THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONTEXT: WHEN BEING DIFFERENT CAN BE AN ADVANTAGE", ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES, 32(2), 182-206, 2018 (with Hatak, I., Patzelt, H., Shepherd, D.)
• "Orchestrating boundaries: The effect of R&D boundary permeability on new venture growth", Journal of Business Venturing, 34(1), 63-79, 2018 (with Nason, R., McKelvie, A., Hitt, M., Yu, W.)
• "RETHINKING THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF PUBLIC SCIENCE: FROM ENTREPRENEURIAL OUTCOMES TO SOCIETAL IMPACTS", ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES, 32(1), 4-20, 2018 (with Fini, R., Rasmussen, E., Siegel, D.)
• "Conquering Relevance: Entrepreneurship Research's Grand Challenge", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 104225871880747, 2018 (with Wright, M., Zahra, S.)
• "Theories from the Lab: How Research on Science Commercialization can Contribute to Management Studies", Journal of Management Studies, 2018 (with Fini, R., Rasmussen, E., Wright, M.)
• "What Are We Explaining? A Review and Agenda on Initiating, Engaging, Performing, and Contextualizing Entrepreneurship", Journal of Management, 45(1), 159-196, 2018 (with Shepherd, D., Wennberg, K., Suddaby, R.)
• "Dispositional positive and negative affect and self-employment transitions: The mediating role of job satisfaction and health", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2018 (with Shir, N., Nikolaev, B.)
• "Entrepreneurship and wellbeing: Past, present and future", Journal of Business Venturing, 2018 (with Nikolaev, B., Shir, N., Foo, M., Bradley, S.)
• "Externally acquired or internally generated? Knowledge development and perceived environmental dynamism in new venture innovation", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42(1), 24-46, 2018 (with McKelvie, A., Brattstrom, A.)
• "An Assessment of Resource-Based Theorizing on Firm Growth and Suggestions for the Future", Journal of Management, 44(1), 32-60, 2018 (with Nason, R.)
• "IMPULSIVITY AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION", ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES, 32(3), 379-403, 2018 (with Yu, W., Patzelt, H.)
• "ADHD, impulsivity and entrepreneurship", Journal of Business Venturing, 32(6), 2017 (with Yu, W.)
• "Location choices of graduate entrepreneurs", Research Policy, 46(8), 2017
• "Impulsivity and entrepreneurial action", ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES, 2017 (with Yu, W.)
• "Mental Disorders in the Entrepreneurship Context: When being different can be an advantage", ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES, 2017
• "ADHD, impulsivity and entrepreneurship", Journal of Business Venturing, 32(6), 627-656, 2017 (with Yu, W., Tucker, R., Marino, L.)
• "The Effects of CEO Founder Status and Stock Ownership on Entrepreneurial Orientation in Small Firms", Journal of Small Business Management, 55(32-55), 2017 (with Deb, P.)
• "Success, Failure, and Entrepreneurial Reentry: An Experimental Assessment of the Veracity of Self‐Efficacy and Prospect Theory ", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 41(1), 19-47, 2017 (with Hsu, D., Cotton, R.)
• "Success, Failure, and Entrepreneurial Reentry: An Experimental Assessment of the Veracity of Self-Efficacy and Prospect Theory", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 41(1), 19-47, 2017 (with Hsu, D., Cotton, R.)
• "Location choices of graduate entrepreneurs", Research Policy, 46(8), 1490-1504, 2017 (with Larsson, J., Wennberg, K., Wright, M.)
• "The Effects of CEO Founder Status and Stock Ownership on Entrepreneurial Orientation in Small Firms", Journal of Small Business Management, 55(1), 32-55, 2017 (with Deb, P.)
• "The Effects of CEO Founder Status and Stock Ownership on Entrepreneurial Orientation in Small Firms", Journal of Small Business Management, 55(1), 32-55, 2016 (with Deb, P.)
• "Entrepreneurial Exit Intentions and the Business-Family Interface", Journal of Business Venturing, 31(6), 613-627, 2016 (with Hsu, D., Anderson, S., Coffey, B.)
• "An Analysis of Business Models: Firm characteristics, innovation and performance", Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal, 22(1), 1-12, 2016 (with Brannon, D.)
• "Entrepreneurial Exit Intentions and the Business-Family InterfaceEntrepreneurial Exit Intentions and the Business-Family Interface", Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 6, 14-20, 2016 (with Patzelt, H., Dimov, D.)
• "Entrepreneurial exit intentions and the business-family interface", Journal of Business Venturing, 31(6), 613-627, 2016 (with Hsu, D., Anderson, S., Coffey, B.)
• "Inside the black box of outcome additionality: Effects of early-stage government subsidies on resource accumulation and new venture performance", Research Policy, 2015
• "ADHD "Symptoms" Are Advantages for the Entrepreneur", Psychology Today, 2015 (with Archer, D.)
• "What about new entry? Examining the theorized role of new entry in entrepreneurial orientation research. ", International Small Business Journal, 2015 (with McKelvie, A., Wales, W.)
• "The emergence of evidence–based entrepreneurship.", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2014 (with Frese, M., Rousseau, D.)
• "Individual responses to firm failure: Appraisals, grief, and the influence of prior failure experience", Journal of Business Venturing, 29(1), 17-33, 2014 (with Jenkins, A., Brundin, E.)
• "Individual responses to firm failure: Appraisals, grief, and the influence of prior failure experience", Journal of Business Venturing, 29(1), 17-33, 2014 (with Jenkins, A., Brundin, E.)
• "Stigma and business failure: implications for entrepreneurs' career choices", Small Business Economics, 42(3), 485-505, 2014 (with Simmons, S., Levie, J.)
• "Internal versus external ownership transition in family firms: An embeddedness perspective", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 37(6), 1319-1340, 2013 (with Nordqvist, M., Hellerstedt, K., Bird, M.)
• "Stigma and business failure: Implications for entrepreneurs’ career choices", Small Business Economics, 1-21, 2013 (with Simmons, S., Levie, J.)
• "Organizational Sponsorship and Founding Environments: A Contingency View on the Survival of Business Incubated Firms, 1994-2007", Academy of Management Journal, 56(6), 1628-1654, 2013 (with Amezcua, A., Grimes, M., Bradley, S.)
• "The Varying Effects of Family Relationships in Entrepreneurial Teams", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 2013 (with Haynie, M., Brannon, D.)
• "Measuring the market newness of new ventures", Journal of Business Venturing, 27(2), 185-196, 2012 (with Dahlqvist, J.)
• "Exploring the Heart: Entrepreneurial emotion is a hot topic", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 36(1), 1-10, 2012 (with Cardon, M., Foo, M., Shepherd, D.)
• "Implications of intra-family and external ownership transfer of family firms: Short-term and long-term performance differences", Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 5(4), 352-372, 2011 (with Wennberg, K., Hellerstedt, K., Nordqvist, M.)
• "Resources, environmental change, and survival: Asymmetric paths of young independent and subsidiary organizations", Strategic Management Journal, 32(5), 486-509, 2011 (with Bradley, S., Aldrich, H., Shepherd, D.)
• "Swinging a double-edged sword: The effect of slack on entrepreneurial management and growth", Journal of Business Venturing, 26(5), 537-554, 2011 (with Bradley, S., Shepherd, D.)
• "Organic and Acquisitive Growth: Re-examining, Testing and Extending Penrose’s Growth Theory", Journal of Management Studies, 48(1), 48-74, 2011 (with Lockett, A., Davidsson, P., Girma, S.)
• "The dual nature of innovative activity: How entrepreneurial orientation influences innovation generation and adoption", Journal of Business Venturing, 26(5), 555-571, 2011 (with Pérez-Luño, A., Cabrera, R.)
• "The effectiveness of university knowledge spillovers: Performance differences between university spinoffs and corporate spinoffs", Research Policy, 40(8), 1128-1143, 2011 (with Wennberg, K., Wright, M.)
• "The Future of Entrepreneurship Research", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 35(1), 1-9, 2011 (with Davidsson, P., Audretsch, D., Karlsson, C.)
• "The importance of slack for new organizations facing ’tough’ environments", Journal of Management Studies, 48(5), 1071-1097, 2011 (with Bradley, S., Shepherd, D.)
• "Where to from here? EO-as-experimentation, failure, and distribution of outcomes", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 35(5), 925-946, 2011 (with Shepherd, D.)
• "Reconceptualizing entrepreneurial exit: Divergent exit routes and their drivers", Journal of Business Venturing, 25(4), 361-375, 2010 (with Wennberg, K., DeTienne, D., Cardon, M.)
• "The age-effect of financial indicators as buffers against the liability of newness", Journal of Business Venturing, 25(4), 423-437, 2010 (with Baker, T., Shepherd, D.)
• "Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of GrowthRate", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 34(2), 261-288, 2010 (with McKelvie, A.)
• "Entrepreneurial orientation and business performance: An assessment of past research and suggestions for the future", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 33(3), 761-787, 2009 (with Rauch, A., Lumpkin, G., Frese, M.)
• "An assessment of resource-based theorizing on firm growth and suggestions for the future", Journal of Management (with Nason, R.)
• "An Analysis of Business Models: Firm characteristics, innovation and performance", Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal (with Brannon, D.)