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James Faulconbridge

James Faulconbridge

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Political Science
UK
2023

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Political Science

D-Index
46
Citations
7324
World Ranking
322
National Ranking
47

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

James Faulconbridge is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting. Their research spans multiple subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Management Information Systems, Transportation, Economics and Econometrics, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Their work often addresses topics related to Management and Organizational Studies, Digital Economy and Work Transformation, Big Data and Business Intelligence, Urban Transport and Accessibility, Transportation and Mobility Innovations, Transportation Planning and Optimization, and Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems.

Recent significant publications by Faulconbridge include:

  • How Professionals Adapt to Artificial Intelligence: The Role of Intertwined Boundary Work, 2023, Journal of Management Studies
  • How professional actions connect and protect, 2021, Journal of Professions and Organization

Other influential papers linked to their research interests, although authored by frequent collaborators, include:

  • How information technology automates and augments processes: Insights from Artificial-Intelligence-based systems in professional service operations, 2022, Journal of Operations Management
  • Studying disruptive events: Innovations in behaviour, opportunities for lower carbon transport policy?, 2020, Transport Policy
  • Theory-Driven Perspectives on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Business and Management, 2024, British Journal of Management

Faulconbridge has had a series of frequent collaborators, notably Martin Spring, Atif Sarwar, Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable, and Daniel Muzio, each of whom has coauthored multiple works with them. This network highlights a collaborative approach to research across diverse domains.

They have published repeatedly in key venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Operations Management, Transport Policy, and Journal of Management Studies, indicating a broad engagement with both interdisciplinary and specialized academic communities.

Best Publications

  • Organizational professionalism in globalizing law firms

    James R Faulconbridge;Daniel Muzio

  • Stretching tacit knowledge beyond a local fix? Global spaces of learning in advertising professional service firms

    James R. Faulconbridge

  • Professions in a globalizing world: Towards a transnational sociology of the professions:

    James R Faulconbridge;Daniel Muzio

  • Towards corporate professionalization: The case of project management, management consultancy and executive search

    Daniel Muzio;Damian Hodgson;James Faulconbridge;Jonathan V Beaverstock

  • Advanced Producer Service Firms as Strategic Networks, Global Cities as Strategic Places

    Peter J. Taylor;Ben Derudder;Ben Derudder;James R. Faulconbridge;Michael Hoyler

  • Commuting practices: New insights into modal shift from theories of social practice

    Noel Cass;James Faulconbridge

  • International Encyclopedia of Geography

    Jonathan V Beaverstock;Sarah Hall;James Faulconbridge

  • Corporate Ecologies of Business Travel in Professional Service Firms Working Towards a Research Agenda

    James R. Faulconbridge;Jonathan V. Beaverstock;Ben Derudder;Frank Witlox

  • How information technology automates and augments processes: Insights from Artificial‐Intelligence‐based systems in professional service operations

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  • International business travel: some explorations

    Jonathan V. Beaverstock;Ben Derudder;James R. Faulconbridge;Frank Witlox

  • The 'war for talent': The gatekeeper role of executive search firms in elite labour markets

    James R. Faulconbridge;Jonathan V. Beaverstock;Sarah Hall;Andrew Hewitson

  • Global Architects: Learning and Innovation through Communities and Constellations of Practice

    James R Faulconbridge

  • London and Frankfurt in Europe's evolving financial centre network

    James R Faulconbridge

  • The financialization of large law firms: Situated discourses and practices of reorganization

    James R. Faulconbridge;Daniel Muzio

  • Mobility and Professional Networks in Academia: An Exploration of the Obligations of Presence

    Tom Storme;James Faulconbridge;Jonathan V Beaverstock;Ben Derudder

  • Reinserting the professional into the study of globalizing professional service firms: the case of law

    James R. Faulconbridge;Daniel Muzio

  • The Global Professional Service Firm: ‘One Firm’ Models versus (Italian) Distant Institutionalized Practices:

    Daniel Muzio;James Faulconbridge

  • Global professional service firms and the challenge of institutional complexity:‘field relocation’ as a response strategy

    James Faulconbridge;Daniel Muzio

  • Analysing the Changing Landscape of European Financial Centres: The Role of Financial Products and the Case of Amsterdam

    James R. Faulconbridge;Ewald Engelen;Michael Hoyler;Jonathan V. Beaverstock

  • Managing the transnational law firm: a relational analysis of professional systems, embedded actors and time-space sensitive governance.

    James R. Faulconbridge

  • The Regulation of Design in Global Architecture Firms: Embedding and Emplacing Buildings

    James R. Faulconbridge

  • Negotiating cultures of work in transnational law firms

    James R. Faulconbridge

  • Relational networks of knowledge production in transnational law firms

    James R. Faulconbridge

  • New Insights into the Internationalization of Producer Services: Organizational Strategies and Spatial Economies for Global Headhunting Firms

    James R Faulconbridge;Sarah J E Hall;Jonathan V Beaverstock

  • Towards Corporate Professionalization: The Case of Project Management, Management Consultancy and Executive Search

    James Faulconbridge;Daniel Muzio;Damian Hodgson;Jonathan V. Beaverstock

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Muzio
Daniel Muzio University of York
Jonathan V. Beaverstock
Jonathan V. Beaverstock University of Bristol
Ben Derudder
Ben Derudder KU Leuven
Frank Witlox
Frank Witlox Ghent University
Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor Northumbria University
Neil M. Coe
Neil M. Coe University of Sydney

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