2026 James H. Love: 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	53	816	759	125	111	149	13286

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D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Business and Management

816

759

125

111

149

13286

Overview

James H. Love is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their work covers several main research topics, including:

International Business and FDI
Firm Innovation and Growth
Innovation and Knowledge Management
Global trade and economics
Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
Innovation Policy and R&D
Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues

James H. Love has contributed to knowledge in multiple subfields such as Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Accounting.

The scientist's research outputs include papers published in a variety of venues. Frequent publication venues include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
International Business Review
Journal of International Business Policy
Research Policy
Journal of Business Research

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by James H. Love include:

"Export status and SME productivity: Learning-to-export versus learning-by-exporting" (2021) in Journal of Business Research
"Learning by exporting under fast, short-term changes: The moderating role of absorptive capacity and foreign collaborative agreements" (2020) in International Business Review
"FDI in hot labour markets: The implications of the war for talent" (2020) in Journal of International Business Policy
"Quantifying sunk costs and learning effects in R&D persistence" (2020) in Research Policy
"The dynamics of abandoned innovation activities: Learning from failure or learning to prevent failure?" (2023) in Research Policy

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Nigel Driffield
Stephen Roper
Bettina Becker
Sandra Lancheros
Priit Vahter

Best Publications

Modelling the innovation value chain

Stephen Roper;Jun Du;James H. Love

967
Citations
SME innovation, exporting and growth: A review of existing evidence

James H Love;Stephen Roper

955
Citations
Innovation and export performance: evidence from the UK and German manufacturing plants

Stephen Roper;James H. Love

838
Citations
Innovation, productivity and growth in US business services: A firm-level analysis

Mica Ariana Mansury;James H. Love

506
Citations
The Determinants of Innovation: R&D, Technology Transfer and Networking Effects

James H. Love;Stephen Roper

470
Citations
Location and network effects on innovation success: evidence for UK, German and Irish manufacturing plants

James H. Love;Stephen Roper

449
Citations
Linking FDI motivation and host economy productivity effects: conceptual and empirical analysis

Nigel L. Driffield;James H. Love

408
Citations
Learning from openness: The dynamics of breadth in external innovation linkages

James H. Love;Stephen Roper;Priit Vahter

401
Citations
Openness, knowledge, innovation and growth in UK business services

James H. Love;Stephen Roper;John R. Bryson

365
Citations
R&D, product innovation, and exporting: evidence from UK new technology based firms

Panagiotis Ganotakis;James H. Love

310
Citations
Experience, age and exporting performance in UK SMEs

James H. Love;Stephen Roper;Ying Zhou

300
Citations
Export propensity, export intensity and firm performance:the role of the entrepreneurial founding team

Panagiotis Ganotakis;James H. Love

289
Citations
Learning by exporting: Lessons from high-technology SMEs

James H. Love;Panagiotis Ganotakis

285
Citations
Foreign direct investment, technology sourcing and reverse spillovers

Nigel L. Driffield;James H. Love

279
Citations
Analysing the determinants of US direct investment in Mexico

James H. Love;Francisco Lage-Hidalgo

275
Citations
Firms’ knowledge search and local knowledge externalities in innovation performance

Stephen Roper;James H. Love;Karen Bonner

274
Citations
Organizing innovation: Complementarities between cross-functional teams

James H. Love;Stephen Roper

235
Citations
External Linkages, R&D and Innovation Performance in US Business Services

James H. Love;Mica Ariana Mansury

209
Citations
Innovation, ownership and profitability

James H. Love;Stephen Roper;Jun Du

191
Citations
The innovation value chain

Stephen Roper;Jun Du;James H. Love

116
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Roper University of Warwick

Nigel Driffield University of Warwick

Mark Hart Aston University

External Links

Personal website of James H. Love Google Scholar page

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