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Business and Management
Sweden
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
72
Citations
47902
World Ranking
260
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow

Overview

Per Davidsson is affiliated with Jönköping University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research spans several subfields including Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Davidsson's work primarily focuses on topics such as Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Family Business Performance and Succession, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Firm Innovation and Growth, and FinTech, Crowdfunding, and Digital Finance.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Davidsson include:

  • Fulfilling the Process Promise: A Review and Agenda for New Venture Creation Process Research (2020, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice)
  • COVID-19 as External Enabler of entrepreneurship practice and research (2021, BRQ Business Research Quarterly)
  • Ditching Discovery-Creation for Unified Venture Creation Research (2021, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice)

Other influential recent publications in the field from related authors include:

  • External Enablers of Entrepreneurship: A Review and Agenda for Accumulation of Strategically Actionable Knowledge (2021, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice)
  • Chasing mythical creatures - A (not-so-sympathetic) critique of entrepreneurship's obsession with unicorn startups (2022, Journal of Business Venturing Insights)

Davidsson frequently collaborates with several scholars, including:

  • Martin Obschonka
  • Paul Steffens
  • Jan Recker
  • Frederik von Briel
  • Jan Henrik Gruenhagen

They have published multiple papers in venues such as:

  • Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Business Venturing Insights
  • Small Business Economics
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Davidsson has been recognized with awards including the Mentor Award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management and the 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow distinction.

Best Publications

  • The role of social and human capital among nascent entrepreneurs

    Per Davidsson;Benson Honig

  • Entrepreneurship and Dynamic Capabilities: A Review, Model and Research Agenda

    Shaker A. Zahra;Harry J. Sapienza;Per Davidsson

  • Arriving at the high growth firm

    Frédéric Delmar;Per Davidsson;William B. Gartner

  • Where do they come from? Prevalence and characteristics of nascent entrepreneurs

    Frederic Delmar;Per Davidsson

  • Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research

    Richard Harrison;C.G. Brush;P. Davidsson;J. Fiet

  • Continued entrepreneurship: Ability, need, and opportunity as determinants of small firm growth

    Per Davidsson

  • Entrepreneurial opportunities and the entrepreneurship nexus: : A re-conceptualization

    Per Davidsson;Per Davidsson

  • Determinants Of Entrepreneurial Intentions

    Per Davidsson

  • Levels of Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research: Current Research Practice and Suggestions for the Future*

    Per Davidsson;Johan Wiklund

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

    Terrence E. Brown;P. E. R. Davidsson;Johan Wiklund

  • What do they think and feel about growth? An expectancy-value approach to small business managers' attitudes toward growth

    Johan Wiklund;Per Davidsson;Frédéric Delmar

  • Culture, structure and regional levels of entrepreneurship

    Per Davidsson

  • Measuring Growth: Methodological Considerations and Empirical Results

    Per Davidsson;Frédéric Delmar;Johan Wiklund

  • The Domain of Entrepreneurship Research: Some Suggestions

    Per Davidsson

  • Entrepreneurship — And after? A study of growth willingness in small firms

    Per Davidsson

  • Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Firm Growth

    Per Davidsson;Johan Wiklund

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

    Per Davidsson;Johan Wiklund

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

    Alexander McKelvie;Per Davidsson

  • Nascent Entrepreneurship: Empirical Studies and Developments

    Per Davidsson

  • Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research

    Richard Harrison;W.D. Bygrave;C.G. Brush;P. Davidsson

  • Arriving at the High-Growth Firm

    Frederic Delmar;Per Davidsson;Johan Wiklund

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan Wiklund
Johan Wiklund Syracuse University
Alexander McKelvie
Alexander McKelvie Syracuse University
Shaker A. Zahra
Shaker A. Zahra University of Minnesota
Ted Baker
Ted Baker Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jan C. Recker
Jan C. Recker Universität Hamburg
Magnus Klofsten
Magnus Klofsten Linköping University
Colin Mason
Colin Mason University of Glasgow
Benson Honig
Benson Honig McMaster University
Andy Lockett
Andy Lockett University of Warwick
Martin Obschonka
Martin Obschonka Queensland University of Technology

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