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Business and Management
UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
81
Citations
50505
World Ranking
151
National Ranking
15

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
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Julian Birkinshaw is affiliated with London Business School in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily falls within the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a particular focus on Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Management of Technology and Innovation. Additional subfields include Accounting and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research topics cover several areas such as Innovation and Knowledge Management, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Business Strategy and Innovation, Management and Organizational Studies, Digital Platforms and Economics, Collaboration in Agile Enterprises, and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Julian Birkinshaw include:

  • Move fast and break things: Reassessing IB research in the light of the digital revolution, 2022, Global Strategy Journal
  • The Blinkered Boss: How Has Managerial Behavior Changed with the Shift to Virtual Working?, 2021, California Management Review

Other notable papers in the same venues by colleagues or in related contexts are:

  • Corporate Strategy and the Theory of the Firm in the Digital Age, 2021, Journal of Management Studies
  • Business Agility: Key Themes and Future Directions, 2023, California Management Review
  • Complexity and multinationals, 2023, Global Strategy Journal

Julian Birkinshaw has frequent co-authors including:

  • Jonas Ridderstråle (12 publications)
  • Sven Kunisch (2 publications)
  • Maya Gudka (2 publications)
  • Xiaoshi Xu (2 publications)
  • Carl F. Fey (2 publications)

Their work has been published across various venues, with major contributions to:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings (5 publications)
  • California Management Review (4 publications)
  • Global Strategy Journal (2 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (2 publications)
  • Journal of Management Studies (1 publication)

Julian Birkinshaw has also contributed to book literature, including a publication titled Fast/Forward (2020) released by Stanford University Press eBooks.

Recognized for their academic contributions, this scholar holds honors such as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom and Dean of Fellow at the Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • THE ANTECEDENTS, CONSEQUENCES AND MEDIATING ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL AMBIDEXTERITY

    Cristina B. Gibson;Julian Birkinshaw

  • Organizational Ambidexterity: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Moderators

    Sebastian Raisch;Julian Birkinshaw

  • Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration for Sustained Performance

    Sebastian Raisch;Julian Birkinshaw;Gilbert Probst;Michael L. Tushman

  • Multinational Subsidiary Evolution: Capability and Charter Change in Foreign-Owned Subsidiary Companies

    Julian Birkinshaw;Neil Hood

  • Entrepreneurship in multinational corporations : The characteristics of subsidiary initiatives

    Julian Birkinshaw

  • Knowledge transfer in international acquisitions

    Henrik Bresman;Julian Birkinshaw;Robert Nobel

  • BUILDING FIRM-SPECIFIC ADVANTAGES IN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: THE ROLE OF SUBSIDIARY INITIATIVE

    Julian Birkinshaw;Neil Hood;Stefan Jonsson

  • The innovation value chain.

    Morten T Hansen;Julian Birkinshaw

  • Configurations of Strategy and Structure in Subsidiaries of Multinational Corporations

    Julian M. Birkinshaw;Allen J. Morrison

  • Building Ambidexterity Into an Organization

    Julian Birkinshaw;Cristina Gibson

  • CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE IN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS

    Tony S. Frost;Julian M. Birkinshaw;Prescott C. Ensign

  • Managing the Post-acquisition Integration Process: How the Human Iintegration and Task Integration Processes Interact to Foster Value Creation

    Julian Birkinshaw;Henrik Bresman;Lars Håkanson

  • The sources of management innovation: When firms introduce new management practices

    Michael J. Mol;Julian M. Birkinshaw

  • Building an Ambidextrous Organisation

    Julian Birkinshaw;Christina B. Gibson

  • How Multinational Subsidiary Mandates are Gained and Lost

    Julian Birkinshaw

  • Clarifying the Distinctive Contribution of Ambidexterity to the Field of Organization Studies

    Julian Birkinshaw;Kamini Gupta

  • Weight Versus Voice: How Foreign Subsidiaries Gain Attention From Corporate Headquarters

    Cyril Bouquet;Julian Birkinshaw

  • INNOVATION IN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: CONTROL AND COMMUNICATION PATTERNS IN INTERNATIONAL R&D OPERATIONS

    Robert Nobel;Julian Birkinshaw

  • From a distance and generalizable to up close and grounded: Reclaiming a place for qualitative methods in international business research

    Julian Birkinshaw;Mary Yoko Brannen;Rosalie L Tung

  • Knowledge as a Contingency Variable: Do the Characteristics of Knowledge Predict Organization Structure?

    Julian Birkinshaw;Robert Nobel;Jonas Ridderstråle

Frequent Co-Authors

Pontus Braunerhjelm
Pontus Braunerhjelm Royal Institute of Technology
Siri Terjesen
Siri Terjesen Florida Atlantic University
Carl F. Fey
Carl F. Fey BI Norwegian Business School
John Bessant
John Bessant University of Exeter
Rick Delbridge
Rick Delbridge Cardiff University
Cristina B. Gibson
Cristina B. Gibson Pepperdine University
Markku V. J. Maula
Markku V. J. Maula Aalto University
Siegwart Lindenberg
Siegwart Lindenberg University of Groningen
Daniel M. Cable
Daniel M. Cable London Business School
Nicolai Juul Foss
Nicolai Juul Foss Copenhagen Business School

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