2026 Ans Kolk: 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	76	203	188	8	7	213	27686

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Ans Kolk is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and conducts research primarily in the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Marketing, Business and International Management, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The main topics explored by Kolk include Environmental Sustainability in Business, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Digital Platforms and Economics, Privacy, Security, and Data Protection, and International Business and Foreign Direct Investment.

Frequent co-authors in Kolk's publications are:

Francesca Ciulli
Kristina Irion
Jonatan Pinkse
Eugénie Coche
Václav Ocelík

Kolk has published frequently in several academic venues. These include:

Academy of Management Proceedings
Journal of International Business Studies
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Internet Policy Review
Business Strategy and the Environment

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Kolk comprise:

"The potential of sustainability-oriented digital platform multinationals: A comment on the transitions research agenda" (2020), published in Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
"International Business, digital technologies and sustainable development: Connecting the dots" (2023), published in Journal of World Business
"The role of business models in firm internationalization: An exploration of European electricity firms in the context of the energy transition" (2020), published in Journal of International Business Studies
"Driving the electric bandwagon: The dynamics of incumbents' sustainable innovation" (2020), published in Business Strategy and the Environment
"Uncovering missing links in global value chain research - and implications for corporate social responsibility and international business" (2020), published in Critical Perspectives on International Business

Best Publications

Sustainability, accountability and corporate governance: exploring multinationals' reporting practices

Ans Kolk

1070
Citations
Corporate Responses in an Emerging Climate Regime: The Institutionalization and Commensuration of Carbon Disclosure

Ans Kolk;David Levy;Jonatan Pinkse

1057
Citations
International business, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development

Ans Kolk;Rob van Tulder

1029
Citations
Trends in sustainability reporting by the Fortune Global 250

Ans Kolk

970
Citations
The social responsibility of international business: From ethics and the environment to CSR and sustainable development

Ans Kolk

900
Citations
Determinants of the adoption of sustainability assurance statements: an international investigation

Ans Kolk;Paolo Perego

879
Citations
Business Models for Sustainable Technologies: Exploring Business Model Evolution in the Case of Electric Vehicles

René Bohnsack;Jonatan Pinkse;Ans Kolk

762
Citations
A decade of sustainability reporting: developments and significance

Ans Kolk

740
Citations
Reviewing a Decade of Research on the “Base/Bottom of the Pyramid” (BOP) Concept:

Ans Kolk;Miguel Rivera-Santos;Carlos Rufín

688
Citations
Business Responses to Climate Change: Identifying Emergent Strategies

Ans Kolk;Jonatan Pinkse;Jonatan Pinkse

638
Citations
Strategic Responses to Global Climate Change: Conflicting Pressures on Multinationals in the Oil Industry

David L. Levy;Ans Kolk

594
Citations
Multinationals' Accountability on Sustainability: The Evolution of Third-party Assurance of Sustainability Reports

Paolo Perego;Ans Kolk

587
Citations
Market Strategies for Climate Change

Ans Kolk;Jonatan Pinkse

585
Citations
Trajectories of sustainability reporting by MNCs

Ans Kolk

511
Citations
Global rule-setting for business: A critical analysis of multi-stakeholder standards

Luc W. Fransen;Ans Kolk

477
Citations
The evolution of environmental management: from stage models to performance evaluation

Ans Kolk;Anniek Mauser

464
Citations
Extrinsic and intrinsic drivers of corporate social performance: Evidence from foreign and domestic firms in Mexico

Alan Muller;Ans Kolk

457
Citations
The integration of corporate governance in corporate social responsibility disclosures

Ans Kolk;Jonatan Pinkse

430
Citations
Multinationality and corporate ethics: codes of conduct in the sporting-goods industry

Rob Van Tulder;Ans Kolk

430
Citations
Winds of Change:: Corporate Strategy, Climate change and Oil Multinationals

Ans Kolk;David Levy

414
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonatan Pinkse King's College London

Rob van Tulder Erasmus University Rotterdam

David L. Levy University of Massachusetts Boston

Michele M. Betsill University of Copenhagen

Karin Bäckstrand Stockholm University

Peter Newell University of Sussex

Tobias Hahn Ramon Llull University

Rosaleen Duffy University of Sheffield

Pieter Glasbergen Maastricht University

Harriet Bulkeley Durham University

External Links

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