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Alistair R. Anderson

Alistair R. Anderson

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Business and Management
UK
2024

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
68
Citations
20508
World Ranking
347
National Ranking
47

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Alistair R. Anderson is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and focuses their research on business, management, and accounting, with a concentration on entrepreneurship studies and influences. They have contributed extensively to academic literature across several subfields, including management of technology and innovation, organizational behavior and human resource management, accounting, strategy and management, and sociology and political science.

The primary research topics covered in Anderson's work include entrepreneurship studies and influences, family business performance and succession, private equity and venture capital, innovation and socioeconomic development, migration, ethnicity and economy, corporate finance and governance, and management and organizational studies.

Anderson's recent publications include the following:

  • Perspectives, progress and prospects; researching women's entrepreneurship in emerging economies, 2021, Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
  • Women's Entrepreneurship in the Global South: Empowering and Emancipating?, 2020, Administrative Sciences
  • "Let them not make me a stone"-repositioning entrepreneurship, 2021, Journal of Small Business Management
  • Entrepreneurial space and the freedom for entrepreneurship: Institutional settings, policy, and action in the space industry, 2021, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
  • Cultures and entrepreneurial competencies; ethnic propensities and performance in Malaysia, 2020, Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies

The researcher frequently collaborates with several scholars, most notably:

  • Funmi Ojediran
  • Sarah Jack
  • Ayoob Sadeghiani
  • Sadra Ahmadi
  • Sajjad Shokouhyar

Anderson's work appears regularly in key journals such as the Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, Administrative Sciences, and Journal of Small Business Management.

Best Publications

  • The effects of embeddedness on the entrepreneurial process

    Sarah L. Jack;Alistair R. Anderson

  • The articulation of social capital in entrepreneurial networks: a glue or a lubricant?

    Alistair R. Anderson;Sarah L. Jack

  • Entrepreneurship education within the enterprise culture: Producing reflective practitioners

    Sarah L. Jack;Alistair R. Anderson

  • “Class matters”: human and social capital in the entrepreneurial process

    Alistair R Anderson;Claire J Miller

  • Religion as an environmental influence on enterprise culture – The case of Britain in the 1980s

    Alistair R. Anderson;Sarah L. Drakopoulou‐Dodd;Michael G. Scott

  • The role of family members in entrepreneurial networks: beyond the boundaries of the family firm.

    Alistair R. Anderson;Sarah L. Jack;Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd

  • Mumpsimus and the Mything of the Individualistic Entrepreneur

    Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd;Alistair R. Anderson

  • Change and the development of entrepreneurial networks over time: a processual perspective

    Sarah Jack;Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd;Alistair R. Anderson

  • Embedded entrepreneurship in the creative re-construction of place

    Edward McKeever;Sarah L. Jack;Alistair R. Anderson

  • News and Nuances of the Entrepreneurial Myth and Metaphor: Linguistic Games in Entrepreneurial Sense‐Making and Sense‐Giving

    Louise Nicholson;Alistair R. Anderson

  • Paradox in the periphery: an entrepreneurial reconstruction?

    Alistair R. Anderson

  • Entrepreneurial social capital: conceptualizing social capital in new high-tech firms.

    Alistair R. Anderson;John Park;Sarah L. Jack

  • Network practices and entrepreneurial growth

    Alistair R. Anderson;Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd;Sarah L. Jack

  • Cultivating the Garden of Eden: environmental entrepreneuring

    Alistair R. Anderson

  • The entrepreneur as hero and jester: Enacting the entrepreneurial discourse

    Alistair R. Anderson;Lorraine Warren

  • An entrepreneurial network evolving: Patterns of change

    Sarah Louise Jack;Susan Moult;Alistair Anderson;Sarah Louise Drakopoulou Dodd

  • The Big Five and brand personality: Investigating the impact of consumer personality on preferences towards particular brand personality

    Riza Casidy Mulyanegara;Yelena Tsarenko;Alastair Andrew Anderson

  • Enacting entrepreneurship as social value creation

    Steffen Korsgaard;Alistair R. Anderson

  • Entrepreneurship as connecting: some implications for theorising and practice

    Alistair R. Anderson;Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd;Sarah L. Jack

  • Entrepreneurship and mutuality: social capital in processes and practices

    Edward McKeever;Alistair R. Anderson;Sarah L. Jack

  • The Role of Family Members in Entrepreneurial Networks: Beyond the Boundaries of the Family Firm

    Alistair R Anderson;Sarah L. Jack;Sarah Drakopoulou‐Dodd

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah Jack
Sarah Jack Stockholm School of Economics
Alain Fayolle
Alain Fayolle IDRAC Business School
Gerard McElwee
Gerard McElwee York St John University
Richard T. Harrison
Richard T. Harrison University of Edinburgh
Jeremy Howells
Jeremy Howells University of Portsmouth
Claire Wallace
Claire Wallace University of Aberdeen
Edward J. Malecki
Edward J. Malecki The Ohio State University
Paul Robson
Paul Robson Royal Holloway University of London

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