2026 Ian Fillis: 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	30	2974	2812	479	440	113	4640

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Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

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Business and Management

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113

4640

Overview

Ian Fillis is affiliated with Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the intersection of social sciences and business, management, and accounting, with a strong emphasis on cultural industries and urban development.

The main fields of study for Ian Fillis include:

Social Sciences
Business, Management and Accounting

Within these fields, key subfields of study are:

Urban Studies
Sociology and Political Science
Management of Technology and Innovation
Marketing
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Their work encompasses a variety of topics, including:

Cultural Industries and Urban Development
Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
Art History and Market Analysis
Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Creativity in Education and Neuroscience

Ian Fillis has published in several academic venues with varying frequency. The most frequent publication venues are:

Arts and the Market
Journal of Customer Behaviour
Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Cultural Trends
Journal of Business Research

Recent papers contributed by Ian Fillis include:

"Creative entrepreneurship, urban transformation and the (Baltic) triangle model," 2022, Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship
"Investigating the relationship between visitor location and motivations to attend a museum," 2020, Cultural Trends
"To sell or not to sell? Pricing strategies of newly-graduated artists," 2022, Journal of Business Research
"Artists versus arts council: A longitudinal analysis of brand legitimacy," 2021, Poetics
"Defining the art product: a network perspective," 2020, Arts and the Market

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

Kim Lehman
Boram Lee
Ruth Rentschler
Mark Wickham
Özge Gökbulut Özdemir

Best Publications

Small firm internationalisation: an investigative survey and future research directions

Ian Fillis

522
Citations
THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Ian Fillis;Ruth Rentschler

503
Citations
Factors impacting on e‐business adoption and development in the smaller firm

Ian Fillis;Ulf Johansson;Beverly Wagner

323
Citations
E-business and e-supply strategy in small and medium sized businesses (SMEs)

Beverly Wagner;Ian Fillis;Ulf Johansson

259
Citations
A conceptualisation of the opportunities and barriers to e‐business development in the smaller firm

Ian Fillis;Ulf Johansson;Beverly Wagner

188
Citations
Barriers to internationalisation: An investigation of the craft microenterprise

Ian Fillis

178
Citations
E-business Development An Exploratory Investigation of the Small Firm

Ian Fillis;Beverly Wagner

174
Citations
Being Creative at the Marketing/Entrepreneurship Interface: Lessons from the Art Industry

Ian Fillis

151
Citations
Image, Reputation and Identity Issues in the Arts and Crafts Organization

Ian Fillis

147
Citations
Modeling and Measuring Creativity at the Interface

Ian Fillis;Andrew McAuley

129
Citations
The evolution and development of arts marketing research

Ian Fillis

125
Citations
A qualitative investigation of smaller firm e-business development

Ian Fillis;Ulf Johansson;Beverly Wagner

124
Citations
Art for Art's Sake or Art for Business Sake: An exploration of artistic product orientation

Ian Fillis

120
Citations
The Internationalizing Smaller Craft Firm: Insights from the Marketing/Entrepreneurship Interface

Ian Fillis

117
Citations
Creative marketing and the art organisation: what can the artist offer?

Ian Fillis

111
Citations
Small Firm Marketing Theory and Practice: Insights From The Outside

Ian Fillis

97
Citations
Moving beyond fan typologies: The impact of social integration on team loyalty in football

Ian Fillis;Craig Mackay

94
Citations
A methodology for researching international entrepreneurship in SMEs

Ian Fillis

93
Citations
Creative marketing : an extended metaphor for marketing in a new age

Ian Fillis;Ruth Rentschler

93
Citations
Using creativity to achieve an entrepreneurial future for arts marketing

Ian Fillis;Ruth Rentschler

83
Citations
The role of handicraft micro-enterprises as a catalyst for youth employment

Oluwayemisi Adebola Abisuga-Oyekunle;Ian Ronald Fillis

76
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Beverly Wagner University of Strathclyde

Morgan P. Miles Charles Sturt University

Ian S. Fraser University of New South Wales

External Links

Personal website of Ian Fillis Google Scholar page

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