2026 Kai Hockerts: 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	32	2550	2407	22	22	80	12509

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Overview

Kai Hockerts is affiliated with Copenhagen Business School in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research largely focuses on Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Finance, Information Systems and Management, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Their scholarly work addresses several key topics, including Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Community Development and Social Impact, Ethics in Business and Education, Management and Organizational Studies, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Environmental Sustainability in Business, and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development.

Recent publications by Kai Hockerts include the following papers:

Defining and Conceptualizing Impact Investing: Attractive Nuisance or Catalyst? (2022, Journal of Business Ethics)
How to Sharpen Our Discourse on Corporate Sustainability and Business Ethics-A View from the Section Editors (2023, Journal of Business Ethics)
Corporate Sustainability and Business Ethics: Towards A Normative Research Agenda (2020, Academy of Management Proceedings)

Kai Hockerts has also collaborated frequently with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

Anne-Karen Hueske
Lisa Hehenberger
Cory Searcy
Othmar M. Lehner
Liana Razmerita

The main venues where Kai Hockerts publishes include:

Academy of Management Proceedings
Journal of Business Ethics
International Journal of Management Reviews
SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

Beyond the business case for corporate sustainability

Thomas Dyllick;Kai Hockerts

5972
Citations
Greening Goliaths Versus Emerging Davids: Theorizing About the Role of Incumbents and New Entrants in Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Kai Hockerts;Rolf Wüstenhagen

1781
Citations
Determinants of Social Entrepreneurial Intentions

Kai Hockerts

779
Citations
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability in Scandinavia: An Overview.

Robert Strand;R. Edward Freeman;Kai Hockerts

397
Citations
Communicating Corporate Responsibility to Investors: The Changing Role of the Investor Relations Function

Kai Hockerts;Lance Moir

362
Citations
Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Social Purpose Business Ventures

Kai Hockerts

352
Citations
A Cognitive Perspective on the Business Case for Corporate Sustainability

Kai Hockerts

253
Citations
The Social Entrepreneurial Antecedents Scale (SEAS): A Validation Study

Kai Hockerts

243
Citations
Impact investing: review and research agenda

Anirudh Agrawal;Kai Hockerts

242
Citations
The Consolidation of the ESG Rating Industry as an Enactment of Institutional Retrogression

Emma Avetisyan;Kai Hockerts

204
Citations
How Hybrid Organizations Turn Antagonistic Assets into Complementarities

Kai Hockerts

199
Citations
Collaborative entrepreneurship for sustainability.: Creating solutions in light of the UN sustainable development goals

Stefan Schaltegger;Markus Beckmann;Kai Hockerts

174
Citations
The Effect of Experiential Social Entrepreneurship Education on Intention Formation in Students

Kai Hockerts

168
Citations
The greening dutchman: Philips' process of green flagging to drive sustainable innovations

Marlen Gabriele Arnold;Kai Hockerts

143
Citations
Impact Investing Strategy: Managing Conflicts between Impact Investor and Investee Social Enterprise

Anirudh Agrawal;Kai Hockerts

97
Citations
Managerial Perceptions of the Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility

Kai Hockerts

78
Citations
Social Entrepreneurship between Market and Mission

Kai Hockerts

77
Citations
Organizational social entrepreneurship : scale development and validation

Merie Joseph Kannampuzha;Merie Joseph Kannampuzha;Kai Hockerts

74
Citations
Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien umsetzen mit einer Sustainability Balanced Scorecard

Carl-Ulrich Gminder;Thomas Bieker;Thomas Dyllick;Kai Hockerts

73
Citations
Advancing Sustainable Entrepreneurship through Substantive Research

Pablo Muñoz;Pablo Muñoz;Frank Janssen;Katerina Nicolopoulou;Kai Hockerts

72
Citations
International Perspectives on Social Entrepreneurship

Jeffrey A. Robinson;Johanna Mair;Kai Hockerts

29
Citations
Consolidation of the ESG Rating Industry as an Enactment of Institutional Retrogression

Emma Avetisyan;Kai Hockerts

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Schaltegger Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Francesco Perrini Bocconi University

Maurizio Zollo Imperial College London

Johanna Mair European University Institute

Edeltraud Guenther TU Dresden

Matthew C. Hansen University of Maryland, College Park

Victoria J. Marsick Columbia University

Cory Searcy Toronto Metropolitan University

R. Edward Freeman University of Virginia

External Links

Personal website of Kai Hockerts

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