2026 Mark Freel: 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	2570	2426	107	96	74	8741

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

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Business and Management

2570

2426

107

8741

Overview

Mark Freel is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada. Their research contributions span several areas within business and economics, with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation, corporate finance, and management.

Their recent publications include the following:

"A tension lens for understanding entrepreneurship-related activities in the university" (2022, Technological Forecasting and Social Change)
"Ownership, innovation, and variable institutional quality" (2022, Corporate Governance An International Review)
"Some initial observations on the geography of the supply of equity crowdfunding" (2022, Venture Capital)
"How civic engagement sparks entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of well-being" (2025, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development)
"Open Innovation Deficiency: Evidence on Project Abandonment and Delay" (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)

The most frequent co-authors of Mark Freel include:

Hien Thu Tran
Anoosheh Rostamkalaei
Samia Chreim
Vu Tuan Chu
Kristof Van Criekingen

The venues where Mark Freel has often published are:

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
SSRN Electronic Journal
Academy of Management Proceedings
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Corporate Governance An International Review

Their research contributions are primarily situated within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. More specifically, their work addresses several subfields:

Economics and Econometrics
Accounting
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Management of Technology and Innovation
Strategy and Management

Main topics explored in their research include:

Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
Firm Innovation and Growth
Corporate Finance and Governance
Private Equity and Venture Capital
Management and Organizational Studies
Innovation Policy and R&D
Family Business Performance and Succession

Best Publications

Sectoral patterns of small firm innovation, networking and proximity

Mark S Freel

1090
Citations
Entrepreneurial learning and the growth process in SMEs

David Deakins;Mark Freel

954
Citations
Patterns of innovation and skills in small firms

Mark S. Freel

657
Citations
Barriers to Product Innovation in Small Manufacturing Firms

Mark S. Freel

633
Citations
Small Firm Innovation, Growth and Performance: Evidence from Scotland and Northern England

Mark S. Freel;Paul J. A. Robson

526
Citations
DO SMALL INNOVATING FIRMS OUTPERFORM NON-INNOVATORS?

Mark S. Freel

496
Citations
External linkages and product innovation in small manufacturing firms

Mark Freel

441
Citations
Patterns of Technological Innovation in Knowledge‐Intensive Business Services

Mark Freel

374
Citations
Absorptive capacity and the reach of collaboration in high technology small firms

Jeroen P.J. de Jong;Mark Freel

365
Citations
Perceived Environmental Uncertainty and Innovation in Small Firms

Mark S. Freel

338
Citations
Are Small Innovators Credit Rationed

Mark S. Freel

315
Citations
Innovation and cooperation in the small firm sector: evidence from 'Northern Britain'

Mark S. Freel;Richard T. Harrison

308
Citations
The latent demand for bank debt: characterizing “discouraged borrowers”

Mark Freel;Sara Carter;Stephen Tagg;Colin Mason

303
Citations
Strategy and Structure in Innovative Manufacturing SMEs: The Case of an English Region

Mark S. Freel

217
Citations
The cost of growth: small firms and the pricing of bank loans

Anoosheh Rostamkalaei;Mark Stephen Freel;Mark Stephen Freel

157
Citations
Appropriation strategies and open innovation in SMEs

Mark Stephen Freel;Paul Robson

155
Citations
Where are the skills gaps in innovative small firms

Mark S. Freel

127
Citations
Market novelty, competence-seeking and innovation networking

Mark Freel;Jeroen P.J. de Jong

127
Citations
Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: Geography and Innovation

David Doloreux;Mark S. Freel;Richard G. Shearmur

108
Citations
The financing of small firm product innovation within the UK

Mark S Freel

104
Citations
Enterprise and Small Business: Principles, Practice and Policy

Mark S. Freel

15
Citations
Innovation and cooperation in the small firm sector

Mark Freel;R. Harrison

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Robson Royal Holloway University of London

Jeroen P.J. de Jong Utrecht University

Sarah Jack Stockholm School of Economics

Richard T. Harrison University of Edinburgh

Dirk Czarnitzki KU Leuven

David Doloreux HEC Montréal

Richard Shearmur McGill University

Colin Mason University of Glasgow

Sara Carter University of Glasgow

External Links

Personal website of Mark Freel Google Scholar page

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