Where to from Here? EO-as-Experimentation, Failure, and Distribution of Outcomes

Johan Wiklund and Dean A. Shepherd

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2011, vol. 35, issue 5, 925-946

Abstract: This article examines two potential causal mechanisms underlying the observed entrepreneurial orientation (EO)–performance relationship. We find empirical support for the notion that EO might be a performance–variance–enhancing strategic orientation rather than a performance–mean–enhancing orientation. With such a conceptualization, performance variance (along with, or instead of, mean performance) and failure take center stage. To address the question of “where to from here,†we discuss a number of research opportunities that we believe are going to make important contributions to the entrepreneurship and strategy literature.

Date: 2011
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (105)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6520.2011.00454.x (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:entthe:v:35:y:2011:i:5:p:925-946

DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2011.00454.x

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().