Johan Wiklund

Professor of Entrepreneurship
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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.
Ph.D., Entrepreneurship, Jönköping International Business School
Professor Wiklund's research interests include entrepreneurship and mental health as well as the performance, growth, exit, and failure of entrepreneurial firms.

Papers

  • Impulsivity and subjective wellbeing among indigenous entrepreneurs

    Moss, T., Yu, W.
  • Business failure and institutions in entrepreneurship: A systematic review and research agenda

    Lee, C., Amezcua, A., Abdul-Qadir, E.
  • Driven to Succeed? A self-determination perspective on entrepreneurial performance

    Bort, J., Moss, T.
  • Walking the talk: Examining intrinsic motivation in prosocial microlending

    Bort, J., Moss, T.

Publications

  • The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach

    2023 ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE,34,

  • The impact of entrepreneurship research on other academic fields

    2023 SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS,25,

  • Do Hybrid Goals Pay off? Social and Economic Goals in Academic Spin-Offs

    2023 JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES,31,

  • Contrasting Impacts of Agricultural Intensification and Urbanization on Lake Phosphorus Cycling and Implications for Managing Eutrophication

    2023 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES,128,11,20,

  • What does not kill you makes you stronger: Entrepreneurs' childhood adversity, resilience, and career success

    2022 JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH,151,40-55, Yu, W., Zhu, F., Foo, M.

  • Assessment of mercury enrichment in lake sediment records from Alberta Oil Sands development <i>via </i>fluvial and atmospheric pathways

    2022 FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE,10,13,

  • Mercury Isotope Variations in Lake Sediment Cores in Response to Direct Mercury Emissions from Non-Ferrous Metal Smelters and Legacy Mercury Remobilization

    2022 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY,56,12,12,

  • Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    2022 ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE, Stephan, U., Zbierowski, P., Perez-Luno, A., Wach, D., Cabanas, M., Barki, E., Benzari, A., Bernhard-Oettel, C., Boekhorst, J., Dash, A., Efendic, A., Eib, C., Hanard, P., Iakovleva, T., Kawakatsu, S., Khalid, S., Leatherbee, M., Li, J., Parker, S., Qu, J., Rosati, F., Sahasranamam, S., Salusse, Marcus A. Y., Sekiguchi, T., Thomas, N., Torres, O., Mi Hoang Tran, Ward, M., Williamson, A., Zahid, M.

  • Paleolimnological assessment of past hydro-ecological variation at a shallow hardwater lake in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region before potential onset of industrial development

    2022 JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY-REGIONAL STUDIES,39,16,

  • A holistic approach to the evolution of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: An exploratory study of academic spin-offs

    2021 Journal of Business Venturing,36,5,106-143, Seyed Abootorabi, S., Johnson, A., Miller, C.

  • A comprehensive review of the global development of initial coin offerings (ICOs) and their regulation

    2021 Journal of Business Venturing Insights,15,e00213, Bellavitis, C., Fisch, C.

  • The Polygenic Risk Score of Subjective Well-Being, Self-Employment, and Earnings Among Older Individuals*

    2021 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,45,2,440-466, Patel, P., Rietveld, C., Wolfe, M.

  • Quantification of Spatial and Temporal Trends in Atmospheric Mercury Deposition across Canada over the Past 30 Years

    2021 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY,55,23,10,

  • Entrepreneurship in the Future: A Delphi Study of ETP and JBV Editorial Board Members

    2021 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,45,5,1239-1275, van Gelderen, Marco, McMullen, J.

  • A Bayesian mixing model framework for quantifying temporal variation in source of sediment to lakes across broad hydrological gradients of floodplains

    2021 LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS,19,8,12,

  • ADHD Symptoms, Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO), and Firm Performance

    2021 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,45,1,92-117, Yu, W., Perez-Luno, A.

  • Fear not, want not: Untangling the effects of social cost of failure on high-growth entrepreneurship

    2021 Small Business Economics,57,1,531-553, Lee, C., Cottle, C., Simmons, S.

  • Entrepreneurial Team Diversity and Productivity: The Role of Family Relationships in Nascent Ventures

    2021 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,45,2,386-417, Ko, E., Pollack, J.

  • Envisioning Entrepreneurship's Future: Introducing Me-Search and Research Agendas

    2021 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,45,5,955-966, Shepherd, D., Dimov, D.

  • Building upon open-barrel corer and sectioning systems to foster the continuing legacy of John Glew

    2021 JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY,65,2,7,

  • ADHD symptoms, entrepreneurial passion, and entrepreneurial performance

    2021 SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS,57,4,1693-1713, Hatak, I., Chang, M., Harms, R.

  • Business failure and institutions in entrepreneurship: a systematic review and research agenda

    2021 Lee, C., Amezcua, A., Bae, T., Palubinskas, A.

  • A dynamic model of entrepreneurial opportunity: Integrating Kirzner’s and Mises’s approaches to entrepreneurial action

    2020 23,3-4,499-541, McKelvie, A., McMullen, J., Palubinskas, A.

  • Entrepreneurial learning under uncertainty: exploring the role of self-efficacy and perceived complexity

    2020 Entrepreneurship & Regional Development,1-23, Markowska, M.

  • Radial flow velocity profiles of a yield stress fluid between smooth parallel disks

    2020 RHEOLOGICA ACTA,59,4,16,

  • Moving Ideas from Lab to Marketplace: A Guide to Research

    2020 Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange, Fini, R., Rasmussen, E., Wright, M.

  • Mental Health in the Family Business: A Conceptual Model and a Research Agenda

    2020 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,44,1,55-80, Miller, D., Yu, W.

  • Fear not, want not: Untangling the effects of social cost of failure on high-growth entrepreneurship

    2020 Small Business Economics, Lee, C., Cottle, G., Simmons, S.

  • Assessment of vanadium and nickel enrichment in Lower Athabasca River floodplain lake sediment within the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (Canada)

    2020 ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION,265,9,

  • ADHD symptoms, entrepreneurial passion, and entrepreneurial performance

    2020 Small Business Economics, Hatak, I., Chang, M., Harms, R.

  • Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect and Self-Employment Transitions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction

    2020 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,44,3,451-474, Nikolaev, B., Shir, N.

  • Use of pre-industrial baselines to monitor anthropogenic enrichment of metals concentrations in recently deposited sediment of floodplain lakes in the Peace-Athabasca Delta (Alberta, Canada)

    2020 ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT,192,2,22,

  • Atmospheric trace metal deposition to remote Northwest Ontario, Canada: Anthropogenic fluxes and inventories from 1860 to 2010

    2020 SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT,749,20,

  • Sources of atmospheric metal(loid) pollution recorded in Thompson Manitoba lake sediment cores within the Canadian boreal biome

    2020 SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT,732,12,

  • Simple Rules, Templates, and Heuristics! An Attempt to Deconstruct the Craft of Writing an Entrepreneurship Paper

    2020 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,44,3,371-390, Shepherd, D.

  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND MENTAL HEALTH: AN EXCITING AND PROMISING NEW FIELD OF RESEARCH

    2020 ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES,34,2,291-295, Hatak, I., Lerner, D., Verheul, I., Thurik, R., Antshel, K.

  • 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

    2020 Journal of Applied Psychology,

  • Delineating extent and magnitude of river flooding to lakes across a northern delta using water isotope tracers

    2020 HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES,34,2,18,

  • How entrepreneurial intentions influence entrepreneurial career choices: The moderating influence of social context

    2020 Journal of Business Venturing,35,3, Meoli, A., Fini, R., Sobrero, M.

  • Entrepreneurial learning under uncertainty: exploring the role of self-efficacy and perceived complexity

    2020 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT,32,7-8,606-628, Markowska, M.

  • ADHD Symptoms, Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO), and Firm Performance

    2019 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,104225871989298, Yu, W., Pérez-Luño, A.

  • Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect and Self-Employment Transitions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction

    2019 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,104225871881835, Nikolaev, B., Shir, N.

  • Conquering Relevance: Entrepreneurship Research's Grand Challenge

    2019 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,43,3,419-436, Wright, M., Zahra, S.

  • Theories from the Lab: How Research on Science Commercialization can Contribute to Management Studies

    2019 Journal of Management Studies,56,5,865-894, Fini, R., Rasmussen, E., Wright, M.

  • Entrepreneurial impulsivity is not rational judgment

    2019 Journal of Business Venturing Insights,

  • Orchestrating boundaries: The effect of R&amp;D boundary permeability on new venture growth

    2019 Journal of Business Venturing,34,1,63-79, Nason, R., McKelvie, A., Hitt, M., Yu, W.

  • Orchestrating boundaries: The effect of R&amp;D boundary permeability on new venture growth

    2019 Journal of Business Venturing,34,1,63-79, Nason, R., McKelvie, A., Hitt, M., Yu, W.

  • Gender gaps and reentry into entrepreneurial ecosystems after business failure

    2019 Small Business Economics,53,2,517-531, Simmons, S., Levie, J., Bradley, S., Sunny, S.

  • Entrepreneurship and well-being: Past, present, and future

    2019 Journal of Business Venturing,34,4,579-588, Nikolaev, B., Shir, N., Foo, M., Bradley, S.

  • Theories from the Lab: How Research on Science Commercialization can Contribute to Management Studies

    2018 Journal of Management Studies, Fini, R., Rasmussen, E., Wright, M.

  • Entrepreneurship and wellbeing: Past, present and future

    2018 Journal of Business Venturing, Nikolaev, B., Shir, N., Foo, M., Bradley, S.

  • What Are We Explaining? A Review and Agenda on Initiating, Engaging, Performing, and Contextualizing Entrepreneurship

    2018 Journal of Management,45,1,159-196, Shepherd, D., Wennberg, K., Suddaby, R.

  • Externally acquired or internally generated? Knowledge development and perceived environmental dynamism in new venture innovation

    2018 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,42,1,24-46, McKelvie, A., Brattstrom, A.

  • MENTAL DISORDERS IN THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONTEXT: WHEN BEING DIFFERENT CAN BE AN ADVANTAGE

    2018 ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES,32,2,182-206, Hatak, I., Patzelt, H., Shepherd, D.

  • Dispositional positive and negative affect and self-employment transitions: The mediating role of job satisfaction and health

    2018 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Shir, N., Nikolaev, B.

  • IMPULSIVITY AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION

    2018 ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES,32,3,379-403, Yu, W., Patzelt, H.

  • An Assessment of Resource-Based Theorizing on Firm Growth and Suggestions for the Future

    2018 Journal of Management,44,1,32-60, Nason, R.

  • Gender gaps and reentry into entrepreneurial ecosystems after business failure

    2018 Small Business Economics, Simmons, S., Bradley, S., Levie, J., Sunny, S.

  • RETHINKING THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF PUBLIC SCIENCE: FROM ENTREPRENEURIAL OUTCOMES TO SOCIETAL IMPACTS

    2018 ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES,32,1,4-20, Fini, R., Rasmussen, E., Siegel, D.

  • Location choices of graduate entrepreneurs

    2017 Research Policy,46,8,1490-1504, Larsson, J., Wennberg, K., Wright, M.

  • Mental Disorders in the Entrepreneurship Context: When being different can be an advantage

    2017 ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES,

  • Success, Failure, and Entrepreneurial Reentry: An Experimental Assessment of the Veracity of Self?Efficacy and Prospect Theory

    2017 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,41,1,19-47, Hsu, D., Cotton, R.

  • Success, Failure, and Entrepreneurial Reentry: An Experimental Assessment of the Veracity of Self-Efficacy and Prospect Theory

    2017 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,41,1,19-47, Hsu, D., Cotton, R.

  • The Effects of CEO Founder Status and Stock Ownership on Entrepreneurial Orientation in Small Firms

    2017 Journal of Small Business Management,55,1,32-55, Deb, P.

  • Impulsivity and entrepreneurial action

    2017 ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES, Yu, W.

  • ADHD, impulsivity and entrepreneurship

    2017 Journal of Business Venturing,32,6,627-656, Yu, W., Tucker, R., Marino, L.

  • The Effects of CEO Founder Status and Stock Ownership on Entrepreneurial Orientation in Small Firms

    2016 Journal of Small Business Management,55,1,32-55, Deb, P.

  • Entrepreneurial Exit Intentions and the Business-Family Interface

    2016 Journal of Business Venturing,31,6,613-627, Hsu, D., Anderson, S., Coffey, B.

  • An Analysis of Business Models: Firm characteristics, innovation and performance

    2016 22,1,1-12, Brannon, D.

  • Entrepreneurial Exit Intentions and the Business-Family InterfaceEntrepreneurial Exit Intentions and the Business-Family Interface

    2016 Journal of Business Venturing Insights,6,14-20, Patzelt, H., Dimov, D.

  • Entrepreneurial exit intentions and the business-family interface

    2016 Journal of Business Venturing,31,6,613-627, Hsu, D., Anderson, S., Coffey, B.

  • ADHD "Symptoms" Are Advantages for the Entrepreneur

    2015 Psychology Today, Archer, D.

  • What about new entry? Examining the theorized role of new entry in entrepreneurial orientation research.

    2015 International Small Business Journal,33,4,351-373, McKelvie, A., Wales, W.

  • Inside the black box of outcome additionality: Effects of early-stage government subsidies on resource accumulation and new venture performance

    2015 Research Policy,

  • The emergence of evidence–based entrepreneurship.

    2014 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Frese, M., Rousseau, D.

  • Stigma and business failure: implications for entrepreneurs' career choices

    2014 Small Business Economics,42,3,485-505, Simmons, S., Levie, J.

  • Individual responses to firm failure: Appraisals, grief, and the influence of prior failure experience

    2014 Journal of Business Venturing,29,1,17-33, Jenkins, A., Brundin, E.

  • Internal versus external ownership transition in family firms: An embeddedness perspective

    2013 Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice,37,6,1319-1340, Nordqvist, M., Hellerstedt, K., Bird, M.

  • Stigma and business failure: Implications for entrepreneurs’ career choices

    2013 Small Business Economics,1-21, Simmons, S., Levie, J.

  • Organizational Sponsorship and Founding Environments: A Contingency View on the Survival of Business Incubated Firms, 1994-2007

    2013 Academy of Management Journal,56,6,1628-1654, Amezcua, A., Grimes, M., Bradley, S.

  • The Varying Effects of Family Relationships in Entrepreneurial Teams

    2013 Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, Haynie, M., Brannon, D.

  • Measuring the market newness of new ventures

    2012 Journal of Business Venturing,27,2,185-196, Dahlqvist, J.

  • Exploring the Heart: Entrepreneurial emotion is a hot topic

    2012 Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice,36,1,1-10, Cardon, M., Foo, M., Shepherd, D.

  • The importance of slack for new organizations facing 'tough' environments

    2011 Journal of Management Studies,48,5,1071-1097, Bradley, S., Shepherd, D.

  • Swinging a double-edged sword: The effect of slack on entrepreneurial management and growth

    2011 Journal of Business Venturing,26,5,537-554, Bradley, S., Shepherd, D.

  • Implications of intra-family and external ownership transfer of family firms: Short-term and long-term performance differences

    2011 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal,5,4,352-372, Wennberg, K., Hellerstedt, K., Nordqvist, M.

  • Organic and Acquisitive Growth: Re-examining, Testing and Extending Penrose's Growth Theory

    2011 Journal of Management Studies,48,1,48-74, Lockett, A., Davidsson, P., Girma, S.

  • The Future of Entrepreneurship Research

    2011 Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice,35,1,1-9, Davidsson, P., Audretsch, D., Karlsson, C.

  • The effectiveness of university knowledge spillovers: Performance differences between university spinoffs and corporate spinoffs

    2011 Research Policy,40,8,1128-1143, Wennberg, K., Wright, M.

  • Where to from here? EO-as-experimentation, failure, and distribution of outcomes

    2011 Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice,35,5,925-946, Shepherd, D.

  • Resources, environmental change, and survival: Asymmetric paths of young independent and subsidiary organizations

    2011 Strategic Management Journal,32,5,486-509, Bradley, S., Aldrich, H., Shepherd, D.

  • The dual nature of innovative activity: How entrepreneurial orientation influences innovation generation and adoption

    2011 Journal of Business Venturing,26,5,555-571, Pérez-Luño, A., Cabrera, R.

  • Advancing Firm Growth Research: A Focus on Growth Mode Instead of GrowthRate

    2010 Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,34,2,261-288, McKelvie, A.

  • Reconceptualizing entrepreneurial exit: Divergent exit routes and their drivers

    2010 Journal of Business Venturing,25,4,361-375, Wennberg, K., DeTienne, D., Cardon, M.

  • The age-effect of financial indicators as buffers against the liability of newness

    2010 Journal of Business Venturing,25,4,423-437, Baker, T., Shepherd, D.

  • From Creativity to Product Launch: The Role of knowledge in the Innovation and Imitation Processes

    2009 Cuadernos de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa,38,95-118, Perez-Luno Robledo, A., Cabrera, R.

  • The effectiveness of alliances and acquisitions: The role of resource combination activities

    2009 Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice,33,1,193-212, Shepherd, D.

  • Scott A. shane: Winner of the global award for entrepreneurship research

    2009 Small Business Economics,33,2,131-140, Davidsson, P.

  • Entrepreneurial orientation and business performance: An assessment of past research and suggestions for the future

    2009 Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice,33,3,761-787, Rauch, A., Lumpkin, G., Frese, M.

  • Moving forward: Balancing the financial and emotional costs of business failure

    2009 Journal of Business Venturing,24,2,134-148, Shepherd, D., Haynie, J.

  • Building an integrative model of small business growth

    2009 Small Business Economics,32,4,351-374, Patzelt, H., Shepherd, D.

  • Are we comparing apples wiith apples or apples with oranges? Appropriateness of knowledge accumulation across growth studies

    2009 Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice,33,1,105-123, Shepherd, D.

  • Portfolio entrepreneurship: Habitual and novice founders, new entry, and mode of organizing

    2008 Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice,32,4,701-725, Shepherd, D.

  • The effect of small business managers' growth motivation on firm growth: A longitudinal study

    2008 Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice,32,3,437-457, Delmar, F.

  • The role of human capital in loan officers' decision policies

    2008 Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice,32,3,485-506, Bruns, V., Holland, D., Shepherd, D.

  • Risk, proactivity and uncertainties as determinants of the decision to imitate or to innovate

    2007 International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning,3,4,343-354, Pérez-Luño, A., Valle-Cabrera, R.

  • Corporate governance and strategic change in SMEs: The effects of ownership, board composition and top management teams

    2007 Small Business Economics,29,3,295-308, Brunninge, O., Nordqvist, M.

  • Entrepreneurial orientation, risk taking, and performance in family firms

    2007 Family Business Review,20,1,33-47, Naldi, L., Nordqvist, M., Sjöberg, K.

  • Commentary: "Family firms and social responsibility: Preliminary evidence from the S &amp; P 500"

    2006 Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice,30,6,803-808,

  • Europe and Entrepreneurship Research

    2006 Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth,9,1-8, Dimov, D., Katz, J., Shepherd, D., Wiklund, J., Dimov, D., Katz, J., Shepherd, D.

  • Dynamics of External Growth in SMEs: A Process Model of Acquisition Capabilities Emergence

    2006 Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth,9,229-266, Salvato, C., Lassini, U., Wiklund, J., Dimov, D., Katz, J., Shepherd, D.

  • Antecedents, moderators, and performance consequences of membership change in new venture teams

    2005 Journal of Business Venturing,20,5,705-725, Chandler, G., Honig, B.

  • Entrepreneurial orientation and small business performance: A configurational approach

    2005 Journal of Business Venturing,20,1,71-91, Shepherd, D.

  • Ownership and the internationalization of small firms

    2005 Journal of Management,31,2,210-233, George, G., Zahra, S.

  • Aspiring for, and Achieving Growth: The Moderating Role of Resources and Opportunities

    2003 Journal of Management Studies,40,8,1919-1941, Shepherd, D.

  • An operationalization of Stevenson's conceptualization of entrepreneurship as opportunity-based firm behavior

    2001 Strategic Management Journal,22,10,953-968, Brown, T., Davidsson, P.

  • Values, beliefs and regional variations in new firm formation rates

    1997 Journal of Economic Psychology,18,2-3,179-199, Davidsson, P.

  • An assessment of resource-based theorizing on firm growth and suggestions for the future

    Journal of Management, Nason, R.

  • An Analysis of Business Models: Firm characteristics, innovation and performance

    Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal, Brannon, D.

  • Entrepreneurship as an auspicious context for mental health research

    Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Gish, J., Lerner, D., McKelvie, A., van Witteloostuijn, A., Wolfe, M.

  • Dec 01, 2021

    Best Paper Award

    Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
  • Feb 01, 2020

    Visiting Professor

    Denmark University of Technology
  • Jan 01, 2020

    Received - SAGE’s 10-Year Impact Award

    SAGE Journal
  • May 01, 2019

    Whitman School Senior Scholar Award

    Syracuse University
  • Mar 01, 2019

    Lazaridis Chair

    Wilfrid Laurier University
  • Jan 15, 2018

    Fulbright Distinguished Professorship

    The Fulbright Commission and RMIT University
  • Aug 12, 2015

    2015 Greif Research Impact Award

    Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division
  • Jan 01, 2011

    Mentor Award

    Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
  • Jan 01, 2010

    Best Empirical Paper Award

    Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
  • Jan 01, 2010

    Mentor Award

    Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
  • Jan 01, 2010

    IDEA Research Promise Award

    Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
  • Jan 01, 2008

    Best Reviewer Award

    Journal of Management Studies
  • Jan 01, 2008

    IDEA Research Promise Award

    Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
  • Jan 01, 2008

    Best Empirical Paper Award

    Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
  • Jan 01, 2006

    The Creativity Award

    Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research
  • Jan 01, 2003

    Best Empirical Paper Award

    Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
  • Jan 01, 2001

    Fast Company’s Best High Growth/High Potential Paper Award

    Academy of Management
  • Jan 01, 1999

    Fast Company’s Best High Growth/High Potential Paper Award

    Academy of Management
  • Jan 01, 1998

    Paper of Distinction Award

    Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference
  • Jan 01, 1998

    NFIB Best Dissertation Award

    Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division
  • Jan 01, 1997

    Best Overall Paper Award

    Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference
  • Received - Named among the top 2% most impactful researchers globally across all sciences

    PLoS biology
  • Received - Named the 3rd most published Entrepreneurship and Family Business scholar in the world

    Journal of Family Business Strategy
  • Received - Listed among the top 100 Best Business and Management Scientists

    Research.com
  • Hvernig náum við að bæta líðan barna í skóla?

    December 14, 2022 MBL.is
  • IRI DEI Thought Leader Interview – ADHD and Entrepreneurship with Professor Johan Wiklund, Syracuse University

    December 09, 2022 Innovation Research Interchange
  • Slik gjorde de adhd-diagnosen til en fordel

    February 11, 2022 Dagens Neringsliv
  • Does Having ADHD Help or Hurt Entrepreneurs?

    November 03, 2021 The Wall Street Journal
  • Have ADHD? This may be the career path for you

    October 12, 2021 Yahoo FInance
  • Succeeding with ADHD

    January 04, 2021 Harvard Business Review - The Anxious Achiever Podcast
  • ADHD + Entrepreneurship with Professor Johan Wiklund of Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management

    October 20, 2020 Solvecast
  • Meaningful and Enjoyable Work | Panel discussion: Johan Wiklund, Erik Nook, Katherine McMahon

    July 24, 2020 The Happiness Institute
  • “No One Talks About the Positives of ADHD — So I Found Some”

    July 01, 2020 ADDitude
  • Jack DeBrabander Explains How He Leverages His ADHD to Achieve the Impossible

    March 10, 2020 apstersmedia.com
  • Mental Health "Obstacles" or Entrepreneurial Superpowers? with Johan Wiklund

    February 06, 2020 Overcoming the Mind
  • Entrepreneurship and mental health

    December 05, 2019 Overcoming the mind
  • Action Over Deliberation

    June 26, 2019 Faster Than Normal
  • What if incubators and accelerators are doing more harm than good to startups and scaleups?

    February 22, 2019 B2B News Network
  • LAURIER’S DRIVE CONFERENCE: CITIES SPUR INNOVATION

    February 21, 2019 Communitech News
  • Folk med ADHD gode på nyskaping

    January 29, 2018 Nord Universtitet
  • Nord-forsker i ny studie: Folk med ADHD er glimrende gründere

    January 29, 2018 Lokalavis i Bodø
  • Folk med ADHD er ofte gode på nyskaping

    January 28, 2018 Forskning.no
  • FTN 80: "Action Over Deliberation" with Syracuse University Professor of Entrepreneurship Johan Wiklund

    January 01, 2018 Peter Shankman's Faster than Normal
  • Action over deliberation

    January 01, 2018 Faster than Normal
  • “No One Talks About the Positives of ADHD — So I Found Some”

    November 13, 2017 ADDitude
  • Expert says economic leaders may be too focused on college grads

    October 09, 2017 Newschannel 9
  • The 5 Best Jobs for People With ADD and ADHD

    September 26, 2017 True Viral News Network
  • The 5 Best Jobs for People With ADD and ADHD

    September 11, 2017 TIME
  • Study looks into where aspiring entrepreneurs go after graduation

    August 22, 2017 Spectrum News
  • This Scientist is Studying How ADHD Helps Drive Some Entrepreneurs

    June 29, 2017 Fast Company
  • People with ADHD can turn symptoms to their advantage as entrepreneurs

    May 31, 2017 Talk Business