
Alexander McKelvie
Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Master’s Education
Professor of Entrepreneurship
315-443-7252
Room: 415A
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Ph D, Jönköping International Business School (Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration)
Research Topics
- New firm growth
- Innovation
- Corporate entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial decision making
- Strategic management of new firms
- Family business
Working Papers
- "Family firms and entrepreneurial activity: The moderating effect of performance attributions", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (with Moss, T., Jayamohan, P., Hyman, M.)
- "They Are the Sum of Their Options: How Networks Direct Attention in Young & New Firms", (with Haynie, M., Kato, S., Godesiabois, J.)
- "Neither Open Nor Closed: Organizational Boundary Permeability And New Venture Growth. ", (with Nason, R., Wiklund, J.)
- "Organizational Size Redux: How and Why Size Matters in Management Studies. ", (with Nason, R., Lumpkin, G.)
- "The measurement of effectuation: Highlighting research tensions and opportunities for the future", Small Business Economics, 54, 689-720, 2020 (with Chandler, G., DeTienne, D., Johansson, A.)
- "Path dependence in new ventures’ capital structures", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2020 (with Söderblom, A., Samuelsson, M.)
- "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., Wiklund, J., Hitt, M., Yu, W.)
- "Signaling for more money: The roles of founders’ human capital and investor prominence in resource acquisition across different stages of firm development", Journal of Business Venturing, 33(4), 438-454, 2018 (with Ko, E.)
- "Whom do growing firms hire? A longitudinal examination of new ventures across growth rates and phases", Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 2018 (with Daunfeldt, S., Westerberg, H.)
- "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., Wiklund, J., Hitt, M., Yu, W.)
- "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 Wiklund, J., Brattstrom, A.)
- "Young firm growth: Reconciling growth orientation and innovative activities", Small Business Economics, 49(2), 273-293, 2017 (with Brattstrom, A., Wennberg, K.)
- "Financial literacy, role models and micro-enterprise performance in the informal economy", International Small Business Journal, 35(7), 855-875, 2017 (with Engstrom, P.)
- "Blame you, blame me: Understanding attribution differences and impact in family and non-family firms", Family Business Review, 30(3), 284-308, 2017 (with Jayamohan, P., Moss, T.)
- "The strategic management of high-growth firms: A review and theoretical conceptualization", Long Range Planning, 50(4), 431-456, 2017 (with Demir, R., Wennberg, K.)
- "Is this the end? Investigating firm and individual level outcomes post-failure", Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 8, 138-143, 2017 (with Jenkins, A.)
- "Exits and the role of entrepreneurial recycling", Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 2017 (with DeTienne, D., Robb, A.)
- "Variable risk preferences in new venture growth and survival", Journal of Business Venturing, 31(4), 408-427, 2016 (with Wennberg, K., Delmar, F.)
- "Explaining the co-existence of effectuation and causation", Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 2016 (with Johansson, A., Ellonen, H.)
- "What is entrepreneurial failure? Implications for future research", International Small Business Journal, 34(2), 176-188, 2016 (with Jenkins, A.)
- "Centralization and delegation practices in family versus non-family SMEs: A Rasch analysis", Small Business Economics, 47(3), 755-769, 2016 (with Martin, W., Lumpkin, G.)
- "The influence of different types of legitimacy across resource acquisition stages in entrepreneurial firms", Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 2016 (with Ko, E.)
- "Explaining the co-existence of effectuation and causation", Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 2016 (with Johansson, A., Ellonen, H., Tarkianen, A.)
- "Making sense of entrepreneurial exit strategies: A typology and test", Journal of Business Venturing, 30(2), 255-272, 2015 (with DeTienne, D., Chandler, G.)
- "Opportunity evaluation as future-focused cognition: Identifying conceptual themes and empirical trend", International Journal of Management Reviews, 2015 (with Wood, M.)
- "The role of organizational size in the heterogeneous nature of corporate entrepreneurship", Small Business Economics, 2015 (with Nason, R., Lumpkin, G.)
- "The effect of managerial attribution of corporate entrepreneurship", Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 2015 (with Jayamohan, P., Moss, T.)
- "Habitual entrepreneurs: Possible cases of entrepreneurship addiction?", Journal of Business Venturing, 2015 (with Spivack, A., Haynie, M.)
- "What about new entry? Examining the theorized role of new entry in entrepreneurial orientation research. ", International Small Business Journal, 2015 (with Wiklund, J., Wales, W.)
- "What matters, matters differently: a conjoint analysis of the decision policies of angel and venture capital investors", Venture Capital, 16(1), 1-25, 2014 (with Hsu, D., Haynie, J., Simmons, S.)
- "Making it personal: Opportunity individuation and the shaping of opportunity beliefs", Journal of Business Venturing, 2014 (with Wood, M., Haynie, J.)
- "Political institutional structure influences on innovative activity", Journal of Business Research, 66(12), 2574-2580, 2013 (with Broberg, J., Short, J., Ketchen, D., Wan, W.)
- "What is the appropriate dependent variable in effectuation research?", Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 2013
- "What Matters, Matters Differently: A Con joint Analysis of the Decision Policies of Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists", Venture Capital, 2013 (with Haynie, M., Hsu, D., Simmons, S.)
- "Untangling the relationships among growth, profitability and survival in new firms", Technovation, 33(8-9), 276-291, 2013 (with Delmar, F., Wennberg, K.)
- "Unpacking the antecedents of effectuation and causation in a corporate context", Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 2012
- "Entrepreneurial Action: Exploitation Decisions Under Conditions of Uncertainty", Journal of Business Venturing, 2011
- "Causation and effectuation processes: A validation study", Journal of Business Venturing, 26(3), 375-390, 2011 (with Chandler, G., DeTienne, D., Mumford, T.)
- "The organizational pervasiveness of entrepreneurial orientation", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 35(5), 895-923, 2011 (with Wales, W., Monsen, E.)
- "Unpacking the uncertainty construct: Implications for entrepreneurial action", Journal of Business Venturing, 26(3), 273-292, 2011 (with Haynie, J., Gustavsson, V.)
- "Is Strategy Different for Very Small and New Firms?", Journal of Small Business Strategy, 21(2), 1-26, 2011 (with Nason, R., Lumpkin, G., Gras, D.)
- "Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of GrowthRate", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 34(2), 261-288, 2010 (with Wiklund, J.)
- "FIRM AND INDUSTRY EFFECTS ON FIRM PERFORMANCE: A GENERALIZATION AND EXTENSION FOR NEW VENTURES", Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 3(1), 47-65, 2009 (with Short, J., Ketchen, Jr., D., Chandler, G.)
- "Asset specificity and behavioral uncertainty as moderators of the sales growth - Employment growth relationship in emerging ventures", Journal of Business Venturing, 24(4), 373-387, 2009 (with Chandler, G., Davidsson, P.)
- "From resource base to dynamic capabilities: An investigation of new firms", British Journal of Management, 20(SUPP. 1), S63-S80, 2009 (with Davidsson, P.)
- "The New Venture Innovation Process: Examining the Role of Absorptive Capacity", Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, 10, 159-185, 2007 (with Wiklund, J., Short, J.)
- "A Resource-Based View on Organic and Acquired Growth", Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, 9, 175-194, 2006 (with Wiklund, J., Davidsson, P.)
- "A dynamic model of entrepreneurial opportunity: Integrating Kirzner’s and Mises’s approaches to entrepreneurial action", (with Wiklund, J., McMullen, J., Palubinskas, A.)
- "Entrepreneurship addiction: Shedding light on the manifestation of the 'dark side' in work behavior patterns", ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES (with Spivack, A.)
Awards and Honors
- Named Justin G. Longenecker Fellow - USASBE (2020)
- CNBC Disruptor Advisory Council - CNBC (2019)
- CNBC Disruptor Advisory Council - CNBC (2018)
- CNBC Disruptor Advisory Council - CNBC (2017)
- CNBC Disruptor Advisory Council - CNBC (2016)
- Finalist - Meredith Teaching Award (university-wide) (2016)
- Finalist - Meredith Teaching Award (university-wide) - Syracuse University (2016)
- Fortune Insider - Fortune Magazine (2016)
- Certificate of Reviewing Excellence - Journal of Business Venturing (2014)
- Whitman Faculty Research Award - Whitman (2014)
- Excellent Reviewer Award - Family Business Review (2012)
- Recipient of Meredith Teaching Recognition Award (2012)
- Winner of the Stevens Institute/Wesley J. Howe best paper award in Corporate Entrepreneurship - Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (2012)
- Named Outstanding Entrepreneurship Educator - Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University (2011)
- Top Reviewer Award - Journal of Business Venturing (2011)
- Winner of Guttag Junior Faculty Award - Whitman School of Management (2010)
- Winner of Research Promise Award - Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management IDEA Awards Program (2009)
- Best doctoral dissertation award winner - National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB (2008)
- Winner of Research Promise Award - Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management IDEA Awards Program (2008)
- Pedagogical Prize - Jönköping International Business School (2003)
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