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46
Citations
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World Ranking
3548
National Ranking
1701

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1979 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Geoffrey Jones is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes in research within the field of Business, Management, and Accounting. Their work spans various subfields including Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science, and Business and International Management.

Their research covers a range of main topics, prominently featuring International Business and Foreign Direct Investment, Family Business Performance and Succession, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Global and Cross-Cultural Management, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Private Equity and Venture Capital, and Religion, Society, and Development.

Jones has contributed papers to multiple scholarly venues, with frequent publications in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Critical Perspectives on International Business

Recent papers authored by Jones include:

  • "Transitioning from responsible and reactive to deeply responsible and proactive international business," 2024, Critical Perspectives on International Business
  • "Deep responsibility, SDGs, and Asia: a historical perspective," 2025, Asian Business & Management

They have also contributed to collaborative publications such as "Context, time, and change: Historical approaches to entrepreneurship research" (2020, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal), "Drivers of Philanthropic Foundations in Emerging Markets: Family, Values and Spirituality" (2021, Journal of Business Ethics), and "Leveraging history to understand management phenomena" (2021, Academy of Management Proceedings).

Frequent coauthors working alongside Geoffrey Jones include Teresa da Silva Lopes, Noemi Sinkovics, Pavida Pananond, Rob van Tulder, and Lilac Nachum.

Their scholarly output extends to book publications with Harvard University Press publishing two volumes titled Deeply Responsible Business in 2023.

Geoffrey Jones's contributions have been recognized with at least one notable award: Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, awarded in 1979.

Best Publications

  • Culture specific and cross-culturally generalizable implicit leadership theories: Are attributes of charismatic/transformational leadership universally endorsed?

    Deanne N. Den Hartog;Robert J. House;Paul J. Hanges;S. Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla

  • Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty First Century

    Geoffrey Jones

  • British Multinational Banking 1830-1990

    Geoffrey Jones

  • Bringing history (back) into international business

    Geoffrey Jones;Tarun Khanna

  • The Evolution of International Business: An Introduction

    Geoffrey Jones

  • Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival

    Cheng Gao;Tiona Zuzul;Geoffrey G. Jones;Tarun Khanna

  • Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

    Geoffrey Jones

  • National Culture and Leadership Profiles in Europe: Some Results From the GLOBE Study

    Paul L. Koopman;Deanne N. Den Hartog;Edvard Konrad;S. Akerblom

  • The Oxford Handbook of Business History

    Geoffrey Jones;Jonathan Zeitlin

  • Merchants to multinationals : British trading companies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

    Geoffrey Jones

  • The Growth of International Business.

    Mark Casson;Peter J. Buckley

  • History‐informed strategy research: The promise of history and historical research methods in advancing strategy scholarship

    Nicholas S. Argyres;Alfredo De Massis;Alfredo De Massis;Alfredo De Massis;Nicolai J. Foss;Nicolai J. Foss;Federico Frattini

  • Context, time, and change : Historical approaches to entrepreneurship research

    R. Daniel Wadhwani;R. Daniel Wadhwani;David Kirsch;Friederike Welter;William B. Gartner;William B. Gartner

  • Multinationals and Global Capitalism

    Geoffrey Jones

  • Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

    Geoffrey Jones

  • Business History Around the World

    Franco Amatori;Geoffrey Jones

  • Banks as Multinationals

    Geoffrey Jones

  • Business History around the World: GENERAL ISSUES, OPEN QUESTIONS, CONTROVERSIES

    Franco Amatori;Geoffrey Jones

  • Multinationals : theory and history

    Edgar Jones;Peter Hertner;Geoffrey Jones

  • Business History: Time for Debate

    Walter A. Friedman;Geoffrey Jones

  • The rise and fall of mass marketing.

    Richard S. Tedlow;Geoffrey Jones

  • British Business in Asia since 1860

    R. P. T. Davenport-Hines;Geoffrey Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Deanne N. Den Hartog
Deanne N. Den Hartog University of Amsterdam
Fred Luthans
Fred Luthans University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Michael Frese
Michael Frese Asia School of Business
Majken Schultz
Majken Schultz Copenhagen Business School
Celeste P.M. Wilderom
Celeste P.M. Wilderom University of Twente
Miriam Erez
Miriam Erez Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Felix C. Brodbeck
Felix C. Brodbeck Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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