Johan Wiklund - Esade

Johan Wiklund
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
315-443-3356
Room 531
Whitman School of Management
Syracuse University
jwiklund@syr.edu
PhD, Jönköping International Business School
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Honors & Recognitions
Research Interests
Professor Wiklund's research interests include small business growth, the
decision to be self-employed, new venture creation, and corporate
entrepreneurship.
Selected Publications:
"The Future of Entrepreneurship Research," Entrepreneurship Theory &
Practice, with Davidsson P., Audretsch, D. & Karlsson, C.
"Measuring the Market Newness of New Ventures," (forthcoming), Journal of
Business Venturing, with Dahlqvist, J.
"Where to from Here: EO-as-Experimentation, Failure, and Distribution of
Outcomes," (forthcoming), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, with
Shepherd, D.
“Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of
Growth Rate," (forthcoming), Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice,
with McKelvie, A.
“The Importance of Slack for Organizations Facing Tough
Environments,” (forthcoming), Journal of Management Studies, with Bradley,
S. and Shepherd, S.
"Organic and Acquisitive Growth: Re-examining, Testing and Extending
Penrose’s Growth Theory," (forthcoming) Journal of Management Studies,
with Lockett, Davidsson & Girma.
"Reconceptualizing Entrepreneurial Exit: Divergent Exit Routes and Their
Drivers," (forthcoming) Journal of Business Venturing, with Wennberg, K.,
DeTienne, D. & Cardon, M.
"Are We Comparing Apples with Apples or Apples with Oranges?
Appropriateness of Knowledge Accumulation Across Growth
Studies," (forthcoming) Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice with Shepherd,
D. A.
"The Effectiveness of Alliances and Acquisitions: The Role of Resources
Combination Activities," (forthcoming) Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,
with Shepherd, D. A.
"Entrepreneurial Orientation and Business Performance: An Assessment of
Past Research and Suggestions for the Future, (2009), Entrepreneurship
Theory and Practice, with Rauch, A., M. Freese & T. Lumpkin.
"The Age Effect of Financial Indicators as Buffers Against the Liability of
Newness," (2008) Journal of Business Venturing, with Baker, T. & Shepherd,
D. A.
"Moving Forward: Balancing the Financial and Emotional Costs of Business
Failure," (2008), Journal of Business Venturing, with Shepherd, D. A., &
Haynie, J. M.
"Building an Integrative Model of Small Business Growth," (2008), Small
Business Economics, with Patzelt, H. & Shepherd, D. A.
"Portfolio Entrepreneurship: Habitual and Novice Founders, New Entry and
Mode of Organizing," (2008), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,
with Shepherd, D. A.

"The Role of Human Capital in Loan Officers’ Decision Policies," (2008)
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2(3), 485-506, with Bruns, V.,
Holland, D., & Shepherd, D. A.
"The Effect of Small Business Managers’ Growth Motivation on Firm Growth:
A Longitudinal Study," (2008), Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 32(3),
437-457, with Delmar F.
"Swinging a Double-edged Sword: The Effect of Slack on Entrepreneurial
Management and Growth," (forthcoming), Journal of Business Venturing,
(with Bradley, S. & Shepherd, D.).
"Resources, Environmental Change, and Survival: Asymmetric Paths of
Young Independent and Subsidiary Organizations," (forthcoming), Strategic
Management Journal, (with Bradley, S., Aldrich, H., & Shepherd, D.).
"The Dual Nature of Innovative Activity: How Entrepreneurial Orientation
Influences Innovation Generation and Adoption," (forthcoming), Journal of
Business Venturing, (with Perez-Luño Robledo & Cabrera, R.V.).

Faculty Honors and Recognition
Johan Wiklund
Recipient of 2010 IDEA Award in Research Promise from the Academy of Management's
Entrepreneurship Division for "Top Management Team Characteristics and New
Venture," (with S. Zahra).
Appointed by the Swedish government to the board of the Swedish Agency for Economic
and Regional Growth, which is responsible for delivering the government’s
entrepreneurship policies on behalf of the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and
Communications.
Selected as best reviewer by Journal of Management Studies.
Recipient of the 2009 inaugural IDEA Award from the Academy of Management’s
Entrepreneurship Division for “Re-Conceptualizing Entrepreneurial Exit: Divergent Exit
Routes and Their Drivers,” (with K. Wennberg, D. DeTienne, and M. Cardon).
Recipient of the Research Promise award for his coauthored paper, "Reconceptualizing
Entrepreneurial Exit: Divergent Exit Routes and Their Drivers," at the 2008 Academy of
Management.
Recipient of the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division’s Michael H.
Mescon/Coles College of Business Best Empirical Paper Award for his paper entitled
"Reconceptualizing Entrepreneurial Exit: Divergent Exit Routes and Their Drivers."