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Business and Management
Japan
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
53
Citations
14430
World Ranking
812
National Ranking
3

Economics and Finance

D-Index
53
Citations
14465
World Ranking
1172
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Alex Coad is affiliated with Waseda University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of business, management, accounting, economics, econometrics, and finance. Their research spans multiple subfields including economics and econometrics, management of technology and innovation, accounting, strategy and management, and political science and international relations.

Their recent publications reflect a focus on firm innovation, growth, entrepreneurship, private equity and venture capital, corporate finance and governance, innovation policy and R&D, innovation and knowledge management, as well as climate change policy and economics.

  • Editorial: the dark side of innovation (2020), Industry and Innovation
  • Understanding firm exit: a systematic literature review (2021), Small Business Economics
  • A field guide for gazelle hunters: Small, old firms are unlikely to become high-growth firms (2021), Journal of Business Venturing Insights
  • What's good for the goose ain't good for the gander: heterogeneous innovation capabilities and the performance effects of R&D (2020), Industrial and Corporate Change

Alex Coad's frequent collaborators include:

  • Sven-Olov Daunfeldt
  • Anders Bornhäll
  • Alexander McKelvie
  • Antonio Vezzani
  • Péter Harasztosi

The scholar has published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Small Business Economics (7 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (5 publications)
  • Industry and Innovation (2 publications)
  • Industrial and Corporate Change (2 publications)
  • Research Policy (2 publications)

In addition to journal articles, Alex Coad has contributed to academic books, including a publication with Springer Nature titled Scale-ups and High-Growth Firms (2024).

The central themes of Alex Coad's research revolve around firm innovation and growth, entrepreneurship studies and influences, private equity and venture capital, corporate finance and governance, innovation policy and R&D, innovation and knowledge management, and climate change policy and economics. This range demonstrates a focus on understanding the dynamics that influence firm performance, the impact of innovation, and the broader economic and financial forces shaping business environments.

Best Publications

  • Innovation and firm growth in high-tech sectors: A quantile regression approach

    Alex Coad;Alex Coad;Alex Coad;Rekha Rao

  • The Growth of Firms: A Survey of Theories and Empirical Evidence

    Alex Coad

  • Innovation and firm growth: Does firm age play a role?

    Alex Coad;Agustí Segarra;Mercedes Teruel

  • High-growth firms: Introduction to the special section

    Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;Sven-Olov Daunfeldt;Werner Hölzl;Dan Johansson

  • Like milk or wine: Does firm performance improve with age?

    Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;A. Segarra;M. Teruel

  • Life satisfaction and self-employment: a matching approach

    M. Binder;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad

  • Muppets and gazelles: Political and methodological biases in entrepreneurship research

    P. Nightingale;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad

  • From Average Joe's happiness to Miserable Jane and Cheerful John: using quantile regressions to analyze the full subjective well-being distribution

    M. Binder;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad

  • The Growth of Firms

    Alex Coad

  • Firm growth and innovation

    David B. Audretsch;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;Alexander Jean-Luc Coad;Agustí Segarra

  • Firm growth and R&D expenditure

    Alexander Coad;Rekha Rao

  • Growth paths and survival chances: an application of Gambler's Ruin theory

    Alex Coad;Alex Coad;Alex Coad;Julian Frankish;Richard G. Roberts;David J. Storey

  • Firm growth and barriers to growth among small firms in India

    Alex Coad;Alex Coad;Jaganaddha Pawan Tamvada;Jaganaddha Pawan Tamvada

  • Testing the principle of ‘growth of the fitter’: The relationship between profits and firm growth

    Alex Coad;Alex Coad;Alex Coad

  • Firm Growth : a Survey

    Alexander Coad;Alexander Coad

  • Firm age and performance

    Alex Coad;Jacob Rubæk Holm;Jackie Krafft;Francesco Quatraro;Francesco Quatraro;Francesco Quatraro

  • Corporate growth and industrial dynamics: evidence from French manufacturing

    Giulio Bottazzi;Alex Coad;Nadia Jacoby;Angelo Secchi

  • A Closer Look at Serial Growth Rate Correlation

    Alex Coad

  • Causal Inference by Independent Component Analysis: Theory and Applications*

    Alessio Moneta;Doris Entner;Patrik O. Hoyer;Alex Coad

  • Consumer support for environmental policies: An application to purchases of green cars

    Alex Coad;Peter de Haan;Julia Sophie Woersdorfer

  • 2010,06: Like milk or wine : does firm performance improve with age?

    Alex Coad;Agusti Segarra;Mercedes Teruel

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Storey
David J. Storey University of Sussex
Marc Cowling
Marc Cowling Oxford Brookes University
Ismael Rafols
Ismael Rafols Leiden University
Francesco Quatraro
Francesco Quatraro University of Turin
Karl Wennberg
Karl Wennberg Stockholm School of Economics
Kristian Fog Nielsen
Kristian Fog Nielsen Technical University of Denmark
Patrik O. Hoyer
Patrik O. Hoyer University of Helsinki
Susan Marlow
Susan Marlow University of Nottingham
Giulio Bottazzi
Giulio Bottazzi Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Elisa Giuliani
Elisa Giuliani University of Pisa

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