Johan Wiklund

Johan Wiklund is the Al Berg Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, USA. His research interests include neurodiversity and mental well-being in entrepreneurship. He is considered a leading authority in entrepreneurship research with over 100 articles appearing in leading entrepreneurship and management journals and over 35,000 citations to his research. He is Editor-in-Chief for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, a premier entrepreneurship journal. 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

Awards and Honors

• Best Paper Award - Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
• Top 2% most impactful researchers globally across all sciences - PLOS Biology
• SAGE’s 10-Year Impact Award - SAGE Journal
• Visiting Professor - Denmark University of Technology
• Lazaridis Chair - Wilfrid Laurier University
• Whitman School Senior Scholar Award - Syracuse University
• Fulbright Distinguished Professorship - The Fulbright Commission and RMIT University
• 2015 Greif Research Impact Award - Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division
• Mentor Award - Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
• Best Empirical Paper Award - Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
• IDEA Research Promise Award - Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
• Mentor Award - Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
• Best Empirical Paper Award - Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
• Best Reviewer Award - Journal of Management Studies
• IDEA Research Promise Award - Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
• The Creativity Award - Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research
• Best Empirical Paper Award - Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
• Fast Company’s Best High Growth/High Potential Paper Award - Academy of Management
• Fast Company’s Best High Growth/High Potential Paper Award - Academy of Management
• NFIB Best Dissertation Award - Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
• Paper of Distinction Award - Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference
• Best Overall Paper Award - Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference

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.)
• "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

• "A comprehensive review of the global development of initial coin offerings (ICOs) and their regulation", Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 15, e00213, 2021 (with Bellavitis, C., Fisch, C.)
• "A holistic approach to the evolution of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: An exploratory study of academic spin-offs ", Journal of Business Venturing, 36(5), 106-143, 2021 (with Seyed Abootorabi, S., Johnson, A., Miller, C.)
• "ADHD Symptoms, Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO), and Firm Performance", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 45(1), 92-117, 2021 (with Yu, W., Perez-Luno, A.)
• "Entrepreneurial Team Diversity and Productivity: The Role of Family Relationships in Nascent Ventures", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 45(2), 386-417, 2021 (with Ko, E., Pollack, J.)
• "Entrepreneurship in the Future: A Delphi Study of ETP and JBV Editorial Board Members", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 45(5), 1239-1275, 2021 (with van Gelderen, Marco, McMullen, J.)
• "Envisioning Entrepreneurship's Future: Introducing Me-Search and Research Agendas", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 45(5), 955-966, 2021 (with Shepherd, D., Dimov, D.)
• "Fear not, want not: Untangling the effects of social cost of failure on high-growth entrepreneurship", Small Business Economics, 57(1), 531-553, 2021 (with Lee, C., Cottle, C., Simmons, S.)
• "The Polygenic Risk Score of Subjective Well-Being, Self-Employment, and Earnings Among Older Individuals", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 45(2), 440-466, 2021 (with Patel, P., Rietveld, C., Wolfe, M.)
• "Simple Rules, Templates, and Heuristics! An Attempt to Deconstruct the Craft of Writing an Entrepreneurship Paper", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 44(3), 371-390, 2020 (with Shepherd, D.)
• "Working in Bed-A Commentary on "Automation, Algorithms, and Beyond: Why Work Design Matters More than Ever in a Digital World" by Parker and Grote", Journal of Applied Psychology, 2020
• "Moving Ideas from Lab to Marketplace: A Guide to Research", Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange, 2020 (with Fini, R., Rasmussen, E., Wright, M.)
• "Fear not, want not: Untangling the effects of social cost of failure on high-growth entrepreneurship", Small Business Economics, 2020 (with Lee, C., Cottle, G., Simmons, S.)
• "ENTREPRENEURSHIP, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND MENTAL HEALTH: AN EXCITING AND PROMISING NEW FIELD OF RESEARCH", ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES, 34(2), 291-295, 2020 (with Hatak, I., Lerner, D., Verheul, I., Thurik, R., Antshel, K.)
• "How entrepreneurial intentions influence entrepreneurial career choices: The moderating influence of social context", Journal of Business Venturing, 35(3), 2020 (with Meoli, A., Fini, R., Sobrero, 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.)
• "Entrepreneurial learning under uncertainty: exploring the role of self-efficacy and perceived complexity", Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 1-23, 2020 (with Markowska, M.)
• "Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect and Self-Employment Transitions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 44(3), 451-474, 2020 (with Nikolaev, B., Shir, N.)
• "ADHD symptoms, entrepreneurial passion, and entrepreneurial performance", Small Business Economics, 2020 (with Hatak, I., Chang, M., Harms, R.)
• "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.)
• "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.)
• "Entrepreneurial impulsivity is not rational judgment", Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2019
• "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.)
• "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.)
• "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.)
• "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.)
• "Gender gaps and reentry into entrepreneurial ecosystems after business failure", Small Business Economics, 2018 (with Simmons, S., Bradley, S., Levie, J., Sunny, S.)
• "IMPULSIVITY AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION", ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES, 32(3), 379-403, 2018 (with Yu, W., Patzelt, H.)
• "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.)
• "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.)
• "Entrepreneurship and wellbeing: Past, present and future", Journal of Business Venturing, 2018 (with Nikolaev, B., Shir, N., Foo, M., Bradley, S.)
• "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.)
• "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.)
• "ADHD, impulsivity and entrepreneurship", Journal of Business Venturing, 32(6), 627-656, 2017 (with Yu, W., Tucker, R., Marino, L.)
• "Location choices of graduate entrepreneurs", Research Policy, 46(8), 1490-1504, 2017 (with Larsson, J., Wennberg, K., Wright, M.)
• "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
• "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.)
• "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.)
• "Entrepreneurial exit intentions and the business-family interface", Journal of Business Venturing, 31(6), 613-627, 2016 (with Hsu, D., Anderson, S., Coffey, B.)
• "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.)
• "What about new entry? Examining the theorized role of new entry in entrepreneurial orientation research. ", International Small Business Journal, 33(4), 351-373, 2015 (with McKelvie, A., Wales, W.)
• "ADHD "Symptoms" Are Advantages for the Entrepreneur", Psychology Today, 2015 (with Archer, D.)
• "Inside the black box of outcome additionality: Effects of early-stage government subsidies on resource accumulation and new venture performance", Research Policy, 2015
• "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.)
• "The emergence of evidence–based entrepreneurship.", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2014 (with Frese, M., Rousseau, D.)
• "Stigma and business failure: implications for entrepreneurs' career choices", Small Business Economics, 42(3), 485-505, 2014 (with Simmons, S., Levie, J.)
• "Stigma and business failure: Implications for entrepreneurs’ career choices", Small Business Economics, 1-21, 2013 (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.)
• "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.)
• "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.)
• "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.)
• "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.)
• "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.)
• "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.)
• "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 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.)
• "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.)
• "Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of GrowthRate", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 34(2), 261-288, 2010 (with McKelvie, A.)
• "Are we comparing apples wiith apples or apples with oranges? Appropriateness of knowledge accumulation across growth studies", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 33(1), 105-123, 2009 (with Shepherd, D.)
• "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.)
• "Building an integrative model of small business growth", Small Business Economics, 32(4), 351-374, 2009 (with Patzelt, H., Shepherd, D.)
• "Moving forward: Balancing the financial and emotional costs of business failure", Journal of Business Venturing, 24(2), 134-148, 2009 (with Shepherd, D., Haynie, J.)
• "From Creativity to Product Launch: The Role of knowledge in theInnovation and Imitation Processes", Cuadernos de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa(38), 95-118, 2009 (with Perez-Luno Robledo, A., Cabrera, R.)
• "Scott A. shane: Winner of the global award for entrepreneurship research", Small Business Economics, 33(2), 131-140, 2009 (with Davidsson, P.)
• "The effectiveness of alliances and acquisitions: The role of resource combination activities", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 33(1), 193-212, 2009 (with Shepherd, D.)
• "The role of human capital in loan officers’ decision policies", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 32(3), 485-506, 2008 (with Bruns, V., Holland, D., Shepherd, D.)
• "The effect of small business managers’ growth motivation on firm growth: A longitudinal study", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 32(3), 437-457, 2008 (with Delmar, F.)
• "Portfolio entrepreneurship: Habitual and novice founders, new entry, and mode of organizing", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 32(4), 701-725, 2008 (with Shepherd, D.)
• "Risk, proactivity and uncertainties as determinants of the decision to imitate or to innovate", International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, 3(4), 343-354, 2007 (with Pérez-Luño, A., Valle-Cabrera, R.)
• "Corporate governance and strategic change in SMEs: The effects of ownership, board composition and top management teams", Small Business Economics, 29(3), 295-308, 2007 (with Brunninge, O., Nordqvist, M.)
• "Entrepreneurial orientation, risk taking, and performance in family firms", Family Business Review, 20(1), 33-47, 2007 (with Naldi, L., Nordqvist, M., Sjöberg, K.)
• "Commentary: "Family firms and social responsibility: Preliminary evidence from the S & P 500"", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 30(6), 803-808, 2006
• "Dynamics of External Growth in SMEs: A Process Model of Acquisition Capabilities Emergence", Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, 9, 229-266, 2006 (with Salvato, C., Lassini, U., Wiklund, J., Dimov, D., Katz, J., Shepherd, D.)
• "Europe and Entrepreneurship Research", Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, 9, 1-8, 2006 (with Dimov, D., Katz, J., Shepherd, D., Wiklund, J., Dimov, D., Katz, J., Shepherd, D.)
• "Ownership and the internationalization of small firms", Journal of Management, 31(2), 210-233, 2005 (with George, G., Zahra, S.)
• "Entrepreneurial orientation and small business performance: A configurational approach", Journal of Business Venturing, 20(1), 71-91, 2005 (with Shepherd, D.)
• "Antecedents, moderators, and performance consequences of membership change in new venture teams", Journal of Business Venturing, 20(5), 705-725, 2005 (with Chandler, G., Honig, B.)
• "Aspiring for, and Achieving Growth: The Moderating Role of Resources and Opportunities", Journal of Management Studies, 40(8), 1919-1941, 2003 (with Shepherd, D.)
• "An operationalization of Stevenson’s conceptualization of entrepreneurship as opportunity-based firm behavior", Strategic Management Journal, 22(10), 953-968, 2001 (with Brown, T., Davidsson, P.)
• "Values, beliefs and regional variations in new firm formation rates", Journal of Economic Psychology, 18(2-3), 179-199, 1997 (with Davidsson, P.)