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Business and Management
UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
72
Citations
40775
World Ranking
263
National Ranking
38

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

John Bessant is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily centers on Business, Management and Accounting, with significant contributions spanning subfields such as Marketing, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, Business and International Management, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The main themes in Bessant's work include Environmental Sustainability in Business, Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Service and Product Innovation, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Animal and Plant Science Education.

Bessant has authored multiple papers in various academic journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Factors influencing the application of nature as inspiration for sustainability-oriented innovation in multinational corporations, 2020, Business Strategy and the Environment
  • Sustainability oriented innovation narratives: Learning from nature inspired innovation, 2022, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • A Home-Based eHealth Intervention for an Older Adult Population With Food Insecurity: Feasibility and Acceptability Study, 2021, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • From supply chain learning to the learning supply chain: drivers, processes, complexity, trade-offs and challenges, 2023, International Journal of Operations & Production Management
  • Sustainable Business Models: A Systematic Review of Approaches and Challenges in Manufacturing, 2021, Revista de Administração Contemporânea

Their frequent coauthors include Jimmi Normann Kristiansen, Mats Magnusson, Ingrid Kihlander, Joanne Hyland, and Magnus Karlsson.

John Bessant publishes regularly in venues such as the International Journal of Innovation Management, The business & management collection, Series on technology Management, Business Strategy and the Environment, and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In terms of book publications, Bessant has contributed to the Series on technology Management, with a book titled "Changing the Dynamics and Impact of Innovation Management" published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change

    Joseph Tidd;Joseph Tidd;John Bessant;Keith Pavitt

  • Innovation management measurement: A review

    Richard Adams;John Bessant;Robert Phelps

  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    J. R. Bessant;Joseph Tidd

  • Sustainability‐oriented Innovation: A Systematic Review

    Richard Adams;Sally Jeanrenaud;John Bessant;David Denyer

  • Building bridges for innovation: the role of consultants in technology transfer

    John Bessant;Howard Rush

  • Small firms, R&D, technology and innovation in the UK: a literature review

    Kurt Hoffman;Milady Parejo;John Bessant;Lew Perren

  • High-involvement innovation through continuous improvement

    John Bessant;Sarah Caffyn

  • Targeting innovation and implications for capability development

    Dave Francis;John Bessant

  • Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change. 3rd edition

    Joe Tidd;John Bessant;Keith Pavitt

  • An evolutionary model of continuous improvement behaviour

    John Bessant;Sarah Caffyn;Maeve Gallagher

  • Managing Innovation: Integrating technological, market and organizational change. 2nd Edition

    Joe Tidd;John Bessant;Keith Pavitt

  • Rediscovering continuous improvement

    J. Bessant;S. Caffyn;J. Gilbert;R. Harding

  • Life cycles of growing organizations: A review with implications for knowledge and learning.

    Robert Phelps;Richard Adams;John Bessant

  • Managing innovation beyond the steady state

    John Bessant;Richard Lamming;Hannah Noke;Wendy Phillips

  • Responsible innovation : managing the responsible emergence of science and innovation in society

    Richard Owen;John Bessant;Maggy Heintz

  • Developing strategic continuous improvement capability

    John Bessant;David Francis

  • Putting supply chain learning into practice

    John Bessant;Raphael Kaplinsky;Richard Lamming

  • Approaching the innovation frontier in Korea: the transition phase to leadership

    Michael Hobday;Howard Rush;John Bessant

  • High-involvement innovation : building and sustaining competitive advantage through continuous change

    John Bessant

  • The manufacturing strategy‐capabilities links in mass customisation and agile manufacturing – an exploratory study

    Steve Brown;John Bessant

  • Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies can Outsmart Upstarts

    John Bessant

  • Competitive advantage through people: by Jeffrey Pfeffer. Harvard Business School Press, Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA 02163, USA, 1994, 288 pp., ISBN 0-87584-413-8. $24.95

    John Bessant

Frequent Co-Authors

Joe Tidd
Joe Tidd University of Sussex
Richard Lamming
Richard Lamming University of Southampton
Michael Hobday
Michael Hobday University of Brighton
Raphael Kaplinsky
Raphael Kaplinsky University of Sussex
Keith Pavitt
Keith Pavitt University of Sussex
Mike Morris
Mike Morris University of Cape Town
Rick Delbridge
Rick Delbridge Cardiff University
Julian Birkinshaw
Julian Birkinshaw London Business School
Andy Neely
Andy Neely University of Cambridge
Peter Jones
Peter Jones University of Cambridge

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