Thinking about entrepreneurial decision making: Review and research agenda

DA Shepherd, TA Williams… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Judgment and decision-making research has a long tradition in management and
represents a substantial stream of research in entrepreneurship. Despite numerous reviews …

Organizational aspirations, reference points, and goals: Building on the past and aiming for the future

GA Shinkle - Journal of management, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Three distinct frameworks have been advanced by scholars to analyze organizational
aspirations: behavioral theory, Ansoff's strategic management view, and strategic reference …

Research on women entrepreneurs: challenges to (and from) the broader entrepreneurship literature?

JE Jennings, CG Brush - Academy of Management Annals, 2013 - journals.aom.org
This paper has three overarching objectives. The first is to document the development of the
body of work known as women's entrepreneurship research. The second is to assess the …

High‐growth women's entrepreneurship: Fueling social and economic development

D Hechavarria, A Bullough, C Brush… - Journal of Small …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
High‐growth firms, often referred to as “gazelles,” are equated with entrepreneurial success
and celebrated as the key to growing economies, and women's entrepreneurship is a …

Which institutions encourage entrepreneurial growth aspirations?

S Estrin, J Korosteleva, T Mickiewicz - Journal of business venturing, 2013 - Elsevier
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain entrepreneurial growth
aspirations across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates …

Does one size fit all? Exploring the relationship between attitudes towards growth, gender, and business size

JE Cliff - Journal of business venturing, 1998 - Elsevier
To help explain the typically smaller size of businesses headed by women, this study
examines a relatively unexplored dimension on which male and female entrepreneurs are …

Entrepreneurial aspirations, motivations, and their drivers

J Hessels, M Van Gelderen, R Thurik - Small business economics, 2008 - Springer
Several drivers of entrepreneurial aspirations and entrepreneurial motivations are
investigated using country-level data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) for …

Building an integrative model of small business growth

J Wiklund, H Patzelt, DA Shepherd - Small business economics, 2009 - Springer
The purpose of this article is to develop an integrative model of small business growth that is
both broad in scope and parsimonious in nature. Such a “big picture” model provides an …

Aspiring for, and achieving growth: The moderating role of resources and opportunities

J Wiklund, D Shepherd - Journal of management studies, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
abstract In this article, we use the theory of planned behaviour to develop a model of small
business managers' growth aspirations and the level of growth achieved. We empirically test …

A quantitative content analysis of the characteristics of rapid-growth firms and their founders

BR Barringer, FF Jones, DO Neubaum - Journal of business venturing, 2005 - Elsevier
A group of firms that is attracting attention are rapid-growth firms. These firms are of
particular interest because rapid growth is an indication of market acceptance and firm …