2026 Ian P. McCarthy: 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	39	1702	1591	72	65	103	17966

Overview

Ian P. McCarthy is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada and has contributed to research primarily within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences. Their work extends across subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Social Psychology, Education, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their research often focuses on themes such as Digital Marketing and Social Media, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Service and Product Innovation, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies, Ethics in Business and Education, and Early Childhood Education and Development.

Key recent publications by Ian P. McCarthy include:

"Big Data for Creating and Capturing Value in the Digitalized Environment: Unpacking the Effects of Volume, Variety, and Veracity on Firm Performance" (2020), Journal of Product Innovation Management
"Making sense of text: artificial intelligence-enabled content analysis" (2020), European Journal of Marketing
"Beware of botshit: How to manage the epistemic risks of generative chatbots" (2024), Business Horizons
""Real impact": Challenges and opportunities in bridging the gap between research and practice - Making a difference in industry, policy, and society" (2024), International Journal of Information Management
"Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit" (2020), Business Horizons

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

Leyland Pitt
Jan Kietzmann
Caitlin Ferreira
Linda W. Lee
David R. Hannah

Their works have appeared extensively in publication venues such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Business Horizons
Academy of Management Proceedings
Journal of Product Innovation Management
European Journal of Marketing

Best Publications

Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media

Jan H. Kietzmann;Kristopher Hermkens;Ian P. McCarthy;Bruno S. Silvestre

7893
Citations
The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis

Marcel Bogers;Ann Kristin Zobel;Allan Afuah;Esteve Almirall

1096
Citations
Is it all a game? Understanding the principles of gamification

Karen Robson;Kirk Plangger;Jan H. Kietzmann;Ian McCarthy

1083
Citations
When customers get clever: Managerial approaches to dealing with creative consumers

Pierre R. Berthon;Leyland F. Pitt;Ian McCarthy;Steven M. Kates

590
Citations
New Product Development as a Complex Adaptive System of Decisions

Ian P. McCarthy;Christos Tsinopoulos;Peter Allen;Christen Rose-Anderssen

479
Citations
Social media? It's serious! Understanding the dark side of social media

Christian V. Baccarella;Timm F. Wagner;Jan H. Kietzmann;Ian P. McCarthy

476
Citations
Unpacking the social media phenomenon: towards a research agenda

Jan H. Kietzmann;Bruno S. Silvestre;Ian P. McCarthy;Leyland F. Pitt

410
Citations
Game on: Engaging customers and employees through gamification

Karen Robson;Kirk Plangger;Jan H. Kietzmann;Ian McCarthy

389
Citations
The impact of outsourcing on the transaction costs and boundaries of manufacturing

Ian McCarthy;Angela Anagnostou

389
Citations
How to work a crowd: Developing crowd capital through crowdsourcing

John Prpic;Prashant P. Shukla;Jan H. Kietzmann;Ian Paul McCarthy

366
Citations
A Multidimensional Conceptualization of Environmental Velocity

Ian P. McCarthy;Thomas B. Lawrence;Brian Wixted;Brian R. Gordon

358
Citations
Deepfakes: trick or treat?

Jan Kietzmann;Linda W. Lee;Ian P. McCarthy;Ian P. McCarthy;Tim C. Kietzmann

279
Citations
Achieving contextual ambidexterity in R&D organizations: a management control system approach

Ian P. McCarthy;Brian R. Gordon

271
Citations
Big Data for Creating and Capturing Value in the Digitalized Environment: Unpacking the Effects of Volume, Variety, and Veracity on Firm Performance*

Francesco Cappa;Raffaele Oriani;Enzo Peruffo;Ian Paul McCarthy

206
Citations
Special issue editorial: The what, why and how of mass customization

Ian Paul McCarthy

173
Citations
Manufacturing classification: Lessons from organizational systematics and biological taxonomy

Ian Paul Mccarthy

173
Citations
Standardization efforts: The relationship between knowledge dimensions, search processes and innovation outcomes

Zongjie Xie;Jeremy Hall;Ian P. McCarthy;Martin Skitmore

154
Citations
Manufacturing strategy: understanding the fitness landscape

Ian Paul McCarthy

154
Citations
An evolutionary approach to benchmarking

Pedro Jose' Dominguez Fernandez;Ian Paul McCarthy;T. Rakotobe-Joel

152
Citations
Product recovery decisions within the context of Extended Producer Responsibility

Michael R. Johnson;Ian P. McCarthy

140
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Leyland Pitt Simon Fraser University

Pierre Berthon Bentley University

Marcel Bogers Eindhoven University of Technology

Thomas B. Lawrence University of Oxford

John Hagedoorn Royal Holloway University of London

Satish Nambisan Case Western Reserve University

Annabelle Gawer University of Surrey

Ann Majchrzak University of Southern California

Martin Skitmore Bond University

Liyin Shen Chongqing University

External Links

Personal website of Ian P. McCarthy Google Scholar page

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