2026 Anita M. McGahan: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	51	918	855	47	42	165	15744

Research.com Recognitions

Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
Fellow of the Strategic Management Society
Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
Fellow of the Strategic Management Society

Overview

Anita M. McGahan is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a total of 46 publications. Their research primarily focuses on a range of subfields, including Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Business and International Management, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The scientist's work spans key topics such as Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Environmental Sustainability in Business, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Management and Organizational Studies, and Complex Systems and Decision Making.

Frequent collaborators include Gerard George, Paul S. Adler, Martine R. Haas, Paul Tracey, and Sérgio G. Lazzarini, with multiple coauthored works alongside these researchers.

The researcher has published across several venues, with notable contributions in:

Academy of Management Proceedings (11 publications)
Journal of Management (3 publications)
Strategy Science (3 publications)
BMJ Global Health (2 publications)
SSRN Electronic Journal (2 publications)

Significant recent papers include:

"Integrating Insights From the Resource-Based View of the Firm Into the New Stakeholder Theory," 2021, Journal of Management
"Tackling Societal Challenges with Open Innovation," 2020, California Management Review
"The New Stakeholder Theory on Organizational Purpose," 2023, Strategy Science

Other notable papers, coauthored with Gerard George, include:

"Purpose in the For-Profit Firm: A Review and Framework for Management Research," 2021, Journal of Management
"Partnering for Grand Challenges: A Review of Organizational Design Considerations in Public-Private Collaborations," 2023, Journal of Management

Anita M. McGahan has been recognized as a Dean of Fellow by the Academy of Management and as a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society.

Best Publications

HOW MUCH DOES INDUSTRY MATTER, REALLY?

Anita M. McGAHAN;Michael E. Porter

2713
Citations
Innovation for Inclusive Growth: Towards a Theoretical Framework and a Research Agenda

Gerard George;Anita M. McGahan;Jaideep Prabhu

1203
Citations
Business-Model Innovation: General Purpose Technologies and their Implications for Industry Structure

Alfonso Gambardella;Anita M. McGahan

974
Citations
The choice among acquisitions, alliances, and divestitures

Belén Villalonga;Anita M. McGahan

729
Citations
What Do We Know About Variance in Accounting Profitability

Anita M. McGahan;Michael E. Porter

506
Citations
Toward a theory of public entrepreneurship

Peter G. Klein;Joseph T. Mahoney;Anita M. McGahan;Christos N. Pitelis

486
Citations
Perspective---The Interdependence of Private and Public Interests

Joseph T. Mahoney;Anita M. McGahan;Christos N. Pitelis

459
Citations
The Persistence of Shocks to Profitability

Anita M. McGahan;Michael E. Porter

436
Citations
How Open System Intermediaries Address Institutional Failures: The Case of Business Incubators in Emerging-Market Countries

Nilanjana Dutt;Olga Hawn;Elena Vidal;Aaron Chatterji

359
Citations
The Performance of US Corporations: 1981-1994

Anita M. McGahan

338
Citations
HOW MUCH DOES INDUSTRY MATTER, REALLY?: HOW MUCH DOES INDUSTRY MATTER, REALLY?

Anita M. McGAHAN;Michael E. Porter

288
Citations
Profiting from technological innovation by others: The effect of competitor patenting on firm value

Anita M. McGahan;Brian S. Silverman

263
Citations
The Emergence and Sustainability of Abnormal Profits

Anita M. McGahan;Michael E. Porter

249
Citations
How industries change.

Anita M McGahan

248
Citations
Capabilities and strategic entrepreneurship in public organizations

Peter G. Klein;Joseph T. Mahoney;Anita M. McGahan;Christos N. Pitelis

244
Citations
An interview with Michael Porter

Nicholas Argyres;Anita M. McGahan

226
Citations
Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS

Margaret K. Kyle;Anita M. McGahan

219
Citations
How much does home country matter to corporate profitability

Anita M McGahan;Rogerio Victer

213
Citations
An International Comparative Public Health Analysis of Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls in Eight Cities: Achieving a More Effective Health Sector Response

Wendy Macias Konstantopoulos;Roy Ahn;Elaine J. Alpert;Elaine J. Alpert;Elizabeth Cafferty

207
Citations
Competition, Strategy, and Business Performance:

Anita M. McGahan

196
Citations
The field of strategic management within the evolving science of strategic organization

Joseph T. Mahoney;Anita M. McGahan

194
Citations
Purpose in the For-Profit Firm: A Review and Framework for Management Research:

Gerard George;Martine R. Haas;Anita M. McGahan;Simon J. D. Schillebeeckx

112
Citations
Toward a Theory of Public Entrepreneurship

Peter G. Klein;Peter G. Klein;Peter G. Klein;Anita M. McGahan;Christos N. Pitelis;Joseph T. Mahoney

37
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph T. Mahoney University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Peter G. Klein Baylor University

Christos N. Pitelis University of Leeds

Will Mitchell University of Toronto

Michael E. Porter Harvard University

Abdallah S. Daar University of Toronto

Joel A. C. Baum University of Toronto

Prabhat Jha University of Toronto

Marcel Bogers Eindhoven University of Technology

Peter A. Singer National University of Singapore

External Links

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