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2023

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Political Science

D-Index
35
Citations
10840
World Ranking
721
National Ranking
116

Laura J. Spence publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Laura J. Spence sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 104 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Laura J. Spence D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Laura J. Spence sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 76 scientists 21 D-Index: 79 scientists 22 D-Index: 84 scientists 23 D-Index: 68 scientists 24 D-Index: 88 scientists 25 D-Index: 82 scientists 26 D-Index: 76 scientists 27 D-Index: 75 scientists 28 D-Index: 99 scientists 29 D-Index: 96 scientists 30 D-Index: 96 scientists 31 D-Index: 81 scientists 32 D-Index: 86 scientists 33 D-Index: 81 scientists 34 D-Index: 84 scientists 35 D-Index: 72 scientists 36 D-Index: 58 scientists 37 D-Index: 53 scientists 38 D-Index: 48 scientists 39 D-Index: 40 scientists 40 D-Index: 40 scientists 41 D-Index: 32 scientists 42 D-Index: 26 scientists 43 D-Index: 25 scientists 44 D-Index: 33 scientists 45 D-Index: 33 scientists 46 D-Index: 17 scientists 47 D-Index: 21 scientists 48 D-Index: 22 scientists 49 D-Index: 18 scientists 50 D-Index: 19 scientists 51 D-Index: 19 scientists 52 D-Index: 15 scientists 53 D-Index: 14 scientists 54 D-Index: 10 scientists 55 D-Index: 13 scientists 56 D-Index: 9 scientists 57 D-Index: 11 scientists 58 D-Index: 12 scientists 59 D-Index: 10 scientists 60 D-Index: 5 scientists 61 D-Index: 7 scientists 62+ D-Index: 100 scientists
20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Laura J. Spence is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and focuses scholarly work primarily within the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research spans several important subfields, including Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Information Systems and Management, Business and International Management, and Sociology and Political Science.

The work of Laura J. Spence encompasses topics such as Management and Organizational Studies, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Ethics in Business and Education, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Global Trade, Sustainability, and Social Impact, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, and Environmental Sustainability in Business.

The recent papers authored or coauthored by Laura J. Spence include:

  • The Elephant in the Room: The Nascent Research Agenda on Corporations, Social Responsibility, and Capitalism (2020, Business & Society)
  • Hybrid (un)freedom in worker hostels in garment supply chains (2022, Human Relations)
  • A typology of small- and medium-sized supplier approaches to social responsibility (2021, Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility)
  • Environmental attitudes of polluting SMEs: Qualitative insights from a low-income developing country (2020, Business Strategy & Development)
  • Polluting SMEs and the construction of their environmental behaviours: Evidence from Bangladesh (2020, Business Strategy & Development)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Business & Society, Academy of Management Proceedings, Human Relations, Business Strategy & Development, and Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility.

Collaborations feature several recurrent coauthors, including Vivek Soundararajan, Simon Oldham, Andrew Crane, Michael Bloomfield, and Genevieve LeBaron, reflecting a network of scholarly engagement across their research topics.

Best Publications

  • Contesting the value of "creating shared value"

    Andrew Crane;Guido Palazzo;Laura J. Spence;Dirk Matten

  • Organizing Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Large Firms: Size Matters

    Dorothée Baumann-Pauly;Christopher Wickert;Laura J. Spence;Andreas Georg Scherer

  • Does size matter? The state of the art in small business ethics

    Laura J. Spence

  • Corporate Social Responsibility Readings and Cases in a Global Context

    Andrew Crane;Dirk Matten;Laura J. Spence

  • CSR and Small Business in a European Policy Context: The Five “C”s of CSR and Small Business Research Agenda 2007

    Laura J. Spence

  • Walking and talking corporate social responsibility: Implications of firm size and organizational cost

    Christopher Wickert;Andreas Georg Scherer;Laura J. Spence

  • Assessing social capital: Small and medium sized enterprises in germany and the U.k

    Laura J. Spence;René Schmidpeter;André Habisch

  • Social responsibility, profit maximisation and the small firm owner‐manager

    Laura J. Spence;Robert Rutherfoord

  • The evolution from corporate social responsibility to supply chain responsibility: the case of Waitrose

    Laura Spence;Michael A. Bourlakis

  • SMEs, Social Capital and the Common Good

    Laura J. Spence;René Schmidpeter

  • Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Salience in Family Firms

    Ronald K. Mitchell;Bradley R. Agle;James J. Chrisman;Laura J. Spence

  • Small Business and Empirical Perspectives in Business Ethics: Editorial

    Laura J. Spence;Robert Rutherfoord

  • Social Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics: Does Social Equal Ethical?

    Elizabeth Chell;Laura J. Spence;Francesco Perrini;Jared D. Harris

  • Governmentality in accounting and accountability: A case study of embedding sustainability in a supply chain

    Laura J. Spence;Leonardo Rinaldi

  • Small business social responsibility

    Laura J. Spence

  • Environmental management and the small firm: an international comparison

    Robert Rutherfoord;Robert A. Blackburn;Laura J. Spence

  • Editorial: Responsibility and Small Business

    Geoff Moore;Laura Spence

  • Small Business and the Environment in the UK and the Netherlands: Toward Stakeholder Cooperation

    Laura J. Spence;Ronald Jeurissen;Robert Rutherfoord

  • Communicating about Ethics with Small Firms: Experiences from the U.K. and Spain

    Laura J. Spence;José Félix Lozano

  • Small Business Social Responsibility: A Critical Multi-Level Review, Synthesis and Research Agenda

    Vivek Soundararajan;Dima Jamali;Laura J. Spence

  • The Forgotten Stakeholder? Ethics and Social Responsibility in Relation to Competitors

    Laura J. Spence;Anne‐Marie Coles;Lisa Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Crane
Andrew Crane University of Bath
Dirk Matten
Dirk Matten York University
Michael Bourlakis
Michael Bourlakis Cranfield University
Andreas Georg Scherer
Andreas Georg Scherer University of Zurich
Mette Morsing
Mette Morsing University of Oxford
Francesco Perrini
Francesco Perrini Bocconi University
Dima Jamali
Dima Jamali Canadian University of Dubai
Guido Palazzo
Guido Palazzo University of Lausanne
James J. Chrisman
James J. Chrisman Mississippi State University
Jedrzej George Frynas
Jedrzej George Frynas Middlesex University

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