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Business and Management
UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
58
Citations
25816
World Ranking
598
National Ranking
89

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 Hagedoorn is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the intersecting fields of Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. The main subfields of their work include Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science, and Accounting.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to innovation and firm growth. These include Innovation and Knowledge Management, Firm Innovation and Growth, Innovation Policy and R&D, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Intellectual Property and Patents, Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering, and Cooperative Studies and Economics.

John Hagedoorn has published numerous papers, with a particular focus on innovation and inventive output following mergers and acquisitions, as well as the role of social enterprise and network ties in innovation performance. Selected papers include:

  • The nascent ecology of social enterprise, 2021, Small Business Economics
  • Hiring new key inventors to improve firms' post-M&A inventive output, 2020, R and D Management
  • Innovation performance and licensing: The effect of the compositional quality of direct and indirect network ties, 2023, Technovation
  • Look at U: Technological scope of the acquirer, technological complementarity with the target, and post-acquisition R&D output, 2022, Technovation
  • Hiring New Key Inventors to Improve Firms' Post-M&A Inventive Output, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors include Hui Tan, Marta F. Arroyabe, Katrin Hussinger, Sime Serge, and Helen Haugh. This collaboration list reflects repeated partnerships in research focused primarily on innovation and management topics.

John Hagedoorn's work has appeared in several academic venues, notably SSRN Electronic Journal, Technovation, Small Business Economics, R and D Management, and Scientific American. The publication volume is concentrated in SSRN Electronic Journal and Technovation.

Best Publications

  • Understanding the rationale of strategic technology partnering: Interorganizational modes of cooperation and sectoral differences

    John Hagedoorn

  • Inter-firm R & D partnerships- an overview of major trends and patterns since 1960

    John Hagedoorn

  • Measuring innovative performance: is there an advantage in using multiple indicators?

    J Hagedoorn;Mmah Myriam Cloodt

  • The effect of strategic technology alliances on company performance

    John Hagedoorn;Jos Schakenraad

  • The Institutionalization and Evolutionary Dynamics of Interorganizational Alliances and Networks

    Richard N. Osborn;John Hagedoorn

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

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

  • External Sources of Innovative Capabilities: The Preferences for Strategic Alliances or Mergers and Acquisitions

    J Hagedoorn;GM Geert Duysters

  • Mergers and acquisitions : their effect on the innovative performance of companies in high-tech industries

    Myriam Cloodt;John Hagedoorn;Hans Van Kranenburg

  • Innovating through strategic alliances: moving towards international partnerships and contractual agreements

    Rajneesh Narula;John Hagedoorn

  • Research Partnerships

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  • Choosing Organizational Modes of Strategic Technology Partnering: International and Sectoral Differences

    John Hagedoorn;Rajneesh Narula

  • Do alliances promote knowledge flows

    Benjamin Gomes-Casseres;John Hagedoorn;Adam B. Jaffe

  • Inter-firm R&D partnering in pharmaceutical biotechnology since 1975: Trends, patterns, and networks

    Nadine Roijakkers;John Hagedoorn

  • Learning in Dynamic Inter-firm Networks - The Efficacy of Multiple Contacts

    John Hagedoorn;Geert Duysters

  • Learning in Dynamic Inter-Firm Networks: The Efficacy of Multiple Contacts

    J Hagedoorn;GM Geert Duysters

  • The effect of mergers and acquisitions on the technological performance of companies in a high-tech environment

    J. Hagedoorn;G.M. Duysters

  • The effect of mergers and acquisitions on the technological performance of companies in a high-tech environment

    J Hagedoorn;GM Geert Duysters

  • Is there complementarity or substitutability between internal and external R&D strategies?

    John Hagedoorn;Ning Wang

  • Leading companies and networks of strategic alliances in information technologies

    John Hagedoorn;Jos Schakenraad

  • Inter-firm R&D networks: the importance of strategic network capabilities for high-tech partnership formation

    John Hagedoorn;Nadine Roijakkers;Hans Van Kranenburg

  • Trends and patterns in strategic technology partnering since the early seventies

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  • Organizational modes of inter-firm co-operation and technology transfer☆

    John Hagedoorn

  • Understanding the Cross-Level Embeddedness of Interfirm Partnership Formation

    John Hagedoorn

  • Inter-firm partnerships and co-operative strategies in core technologies

    John Hagedoorn;Jos Schakenraad

Frequent Co-Authors

Geert Duysters
Geert Duysters Tilburg University
Rajneesh Narula
Rajneesh Narula University of Reading
Adam B. Jaffe
Adam B. Jaffe Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
Marcel Bogers
Marcel Bogers Eindhoven University of Technology
Albert N. Link
Albert N. Link University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Nicholas S. Vonortas
Nicholas S. Vonortas George Washington University
Keld Laursen
Keld Laursen Copenhagen Business School
Elias G. Carayannis
Elias G. Carayannis George Washington University
Annabelle Gawer
Annabelle Gawer University of Surrey
Ann Majchrzak
Ann Majchrzak University of Southern California

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