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Business and Management
UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
75
Citations
41330
World Ranking
216
National Ranking
26

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
  • 2015 - Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award, British Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management

Overview

John Child is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus also on Social Sciences. The main subfields of study include Strategy and Management, Law, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Accounting, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's scholarly output includes notable recent papers such as:

  • "The role of context in SME internationalization - A review" (2021), Journal of World Business
  • "Organizational participation in post-covid society - its contributions and enabling conditions" (2020), International Review of Applied Economics

Though not the primary author, works associated with John Child also connect with broader themes in strategic alliances, innovation, and international business dynamics.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • David Ormerod
  • Saïd Elbanna
  • Joanna Karmowska
  • Linda Hsieh
  • Qile He

John Child's research appears regularly in journals such as the European Management Review, British Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, International Review of Applied Economics, and International Journal of Management Reviews.

The scientist's work covers significant topics including:

  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • International Business and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
  • Business Strategy and Innovation
  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Legal Education and Practice Innovations

John Child has contributed to book publications with Oxford University Press, notably in works related to criminal law co-authored with colleagues Smith, Hogan, and Ormerod. These books were published in 2021 and 2023.

The scientist's academic contributions have been recognized with awards including the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Academy of Management in 2015 and designation as a Fellow of the British Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • Organizational Structure, Environment and Performance: The Role of Strategic Choice

    John Child

  • The Internationalization of Chinese Firms: A Case for Theoretical Extension?[1]

    John Child;Suzana B. Rodrigues

  • Strategic Choice in the Analysis of Action, Structure, Organizations and Environment: Retrospect and Prospect

    John Child

  • Organization: A Guide to Problems and Practice

    John Child

  • From Fiefs to Clans and Network Capitalism: Explaining China's Emerging Economic Order

    Max Boisot;John Child

  • Organization Structure and Strategies of Control: A Replication of the Aston Study

    John Child

  • Predicting and Understanding Organization Structure.

    John Child

  • Strategies of Cooperation: Managing Alliances, Networks, and Joint Ventures

    John Child;David Faulkner

  • Organizations As Adaptive Systems in Complex Environments: the Case of China

    Max Boisot;John Child

  • MANAGERIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH COMPANY PERFORMANCE PART I

    John Child

  • Organizations Unfettered: Organizational Form in an Information-Intensive Economy

    John Child;Rita Gunther McGrath

  • China's Transition and its Implications for International Business

    John Child;David K. Tse

  • Management in China during the age of reform

    Oded Shenkar

  • Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge

    Meinolf Dierkes;Ariane Berthoin Antal;John Child;Ikujiro Nonaka

  • Organization: Contemporary Principles and Practice

    John Child

  • The Dynamic Between Firms¿ Environmental Strategies and Institutional Constraints in Emerging Economies: Evidence from China and Taiwan

    John Child;Terence Tsai

  • THE CONTEXT AND PROCESS OF ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION ‐ CADBURY LIMITED IN ITS SECTOR

    John Child;Chris Smith

  • Influences on strategic decision effectiveness: Development and test of an integrative model

    Said Elbanna;John Child

  • Contextual Confidence and Active Trust Development in the Chinese Business Environment

    John Child;Guido Möllering

  • The Iron Law of Fiefs: Bureaucratic Failure and the Problem of Governance in the Chinese Economic Reforms

    Max Boisot;John Child

  • Strategies of Cooperation

    Unknown

  • The Internationalization of Chinese Firms: A Case for Theoretical Extension?

    John Child;Suzana B. Rodrigues

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Tallman
Stephen Tallman University of Richmond
Said Elbanna
Said Elbanna Qatar University
Ilan Alon
Ilan Alon Ariel University
Emanuel Gomes
Emanuel Gomes Universidade Nova de Lisboa
David K. Tse
David K. Tse Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Mark N. K. Saunders
Mark N. K. Saunders University of Birmingham
Yadong Luo
Yadong Luo University of Miami
Malcolm Warner
Malcolm Warner University of Cambridge
Rita Gunther McGrath
Rita Gunther McGrath Columbia University
Michael W. Morris
Michael W. Morris Columbia University

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