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Alexander McKelvie

Alexander McKelvie

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
33
Citations
8007
World Ranking
2421
National Ranking
951

Overview

Alexander McKelvie is affiliated with Syracuse University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with additional work in Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The main areas of study that characterize McKelvie's work include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these broader fields, the scientist has contributed notably to several subfields:

  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Accounting
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Strategy and Management

Their research topics cover a range of subjects relevant to entrepreneurship and business growth:

  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management

McKelvie has published extensively, with important papers appearing in respected journals. Selected recent papers include:

  • "What do they think and feel about growth? Examining small business managers' attitudes towards growth in the United States," 2021, Journal of Business Venturing Insights
  • "Entrepreneurial mindset in corporate entrepreneurship: Forms, impediments, and actions for research," 2021, Journal of Small Business Management
  • "Entrepreneurship as an auspicious context for mental health research," 2022, Journal of Business Venturing Insights
  • "Path Dependence in New Ventures' Capital Structures," 2020, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • "Social support and its effects on self-efficacy among entrepreneurs with disabilities," 2021, Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Frequent publication venues for McKelvie include:

  • Journal of Business Venturing Insights
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • Small Business Economics
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Small Business Management

Alexander McKelvie has also contributed to book publications, with titles including:

  • Scale-ups and High-Growth Firms, published by Springer Nature in 2024
  • Entrepreneurship Addiction, published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2022

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Sven-Olov Daunfeldt
  • April J. Spivack
  • Alex Coad
  • Anders Bornhäll
  • Mirza Tihic

Best Publications

  • Causation and effectuation processes: A validation study

    Gaylen N. Chandler;Dawn R. DeTienne;Alexander McKelvie;Troy V. Mumford

  • Advancing firm growth research: A focus on growth mode instead of growth rate

    Alexander McKelvie;Johan Wiklund

  • From resource base to dynamic capabilities: An investigation of new firms

    Alexander McKelvie;Per Davidsson

  • Unpacking the uncertainty construct: Implications for entrepreneurial action

    Alexander McKelvie;J. Michael Haynie;Veronica Gustavsson

  • The organizational pervasiveness of entrepreneurial orientation

    William Wales;Erik Monsen;Alexander McKelvie

  • Making sense of entrepreneurial exit strategies: A typology and test

    Dawn R. DeTienne;Alexander McKelvie;Gaylen N. Chandler

  • Untangling the relationships among growth, profitability and survival in new firms

    Frédéric Delmar;Frédéric Delmar;Alexander McKelvie;Karl Wennberg;Karl Wennberg

  • Signaling for more money: The roles of founders' human capital and investor prominence in resource acquisition across different stages of firm development

    Eun Jeong Ko;Alexander McKelvie

  • The strategic management of high-growth firms:a review and theoretical conceptualization

    Robert Demir;Karl Wennberg;Alexander McKelvie

  • Making it personal: : Opportunity individuation and the shaping of opportunity beliefs

    Matthew S. Wood;Alexander McKelvie;J. Michael Haynie

  • Firm and industry effects on firm performance: A generalization and extension for new ventures

    Jeremy C. Short;Jeremy C. Short;Alexander McKelvie;David J. Ketchen;Gaylen N. Chandler

  • What matters, matters differently: a conjoint analysis of the decision policies of angel and venture capital investors

    Dan K. Hsu;J. Michael Haynie;Sharon A. Simmons;Alexander McKelvie

  • What is entrepreneurial failure? Implications for future research

    Anna Jenkins;Alexander McKelvie

  • Asset specificity and behavioral uncertainty as moderators of the sales growth–employment growth relationship in emerging ventures

    Gaylen N. Chandler;Alexander McKelvie;Per Davidsson;Per Davidsson

  • Opportunity Evaluation as Future Focused Cognition: Identifying Conceptual Themes and Empirical Trends

    Matthew S. Wood;Alexander McKelvie

  • Habitual entrepreneurs: Possible cases of entrepreneurship addiction?

    April J. Spivack;Alexander McKelvie;J. Michael Haynie

  • Variable Risk Preferences in New Firm Growth and Survival

    Karl Wennberg;Frédéric Delmar;Alexander McKelvie

  • What about new entry? Examining the theorized role of new entry in the entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship:

    William Wales;Johan Wiklund;Alexander McKelvie

  • The role of organizational size in the heterogeneous nature of corporate entrepreneurship

    Robert S. Nason;Alexander McKelvie;George Lumpkin

  • Externally Acquired or Internally Generated? Knowledge Development and Perceived Environmental Dynamism in New Venture Innovation:

    Alexander McKelvie;Johan Wiklund;Anna Brattström

  • How young firms achieve growth: reconciling the roles of growth motivation and innovative activities

    Alexander McKelvie;Anna Brattström;Karl Wennberg;Karl Wennberg

  • The measurement of effectuation: highlighting research tensions and opportunities for the future

    Alexander McKelvie;Gaylen N. Chandler;Dawn R. DeTienne;Anette Johansson

  • Asset specificity and behavioural uncertainty as moderators of the sales growth : employment growth relationship in emerging ventures

    Gaylen Chandler;Alexander McKelvie;Per Davidsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan Wiklund
Johan Wiklund Syracuse University
Karl Wennberg
Karl Wennberg Stockholm School of Economics
Per Davidsson
Per Davidsson Jönköping University
Jeremy C. Short
Jeremy C. Short University of North Texas
G. T. Lumpkin
G. T. Lumpkin University of Tennessee at Knoxville
David J. Ketchen
David J. Ketchen Auburn University
Jon C. Carr
Jon C. Carr North Carolina State University
Michael A. Hitt
Michael A. Hitt Texas A&M University
Donald F. Kuratko
Donald F. Kuratko Indiana University
Jeffery S. McMullen
Jeffery S. McMullen Indiana University

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