2026 Mike Bresnen: 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	39	1741	1629	274	244	187	8243

Mike Bresnen publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mike Bresnen sits on this spectrum.

35 publications 436+

This scientist: 187 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Mike Bresnen D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mike Bresnen sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mike Bresnen is affiliated with Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, Social Sciences, and Health Professions. Within these areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, General Health Professions, Management Science and Operations Research, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics of Mike Bresnen's research work include:

Construction Project Management and Performance
Management and Organizational Studies
Mental Health and Patient Involvement
BIM and Construction Integration
Public Policy and Administration Research
Innovation and Knowledge Management
Public-Private Partnership Projects

They have published repeatedly in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

Construction Management and Economics
Sociology of Health & Illness
Gender Work and Organization
Journal of Health Organization and Management
New Technology Work and Employment

Notable recent publications authored by Mike Bresnen or in collaboration include:

Partnering in construction re-visited: gauging progress in industry practice and prospects for advances in academic research (2024, Construction Management and Economics)
Managing death: navigating divergent logics in end-of-life care (2020, Sociology of Health & Illness)
Reinforced or disrupted ideal worker norms in the pandemic? Analyzing the gendered impact of the pandemic on professional specialisms in a Professional Services Firm in Kuwait (2022, Gender Work and Organization)
Implementing disruptive technological change in UK healthcare: exploring development of a smart phone app for remote patient monitoring as a boundary object using qualitative methods (2020, Journal of Health Organization and Management)
Ambiguous workarounds in policy piloting in the NHS: Tensions, trade-offs and legacies of organisational change projects (2021, New Technology Work and Employment)

Mike Bresnen has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Sarah-Jane Lennie
Nicholas Marshall
Simon Bailey
Damian Hodgson
Paula Hyde

Best Publications

Partnering in construction: a critical review of issues, problems and dilemmas

Mike Bresnen;Nicholas Marshall

853
Citations
Social practices and the management of knowledge in project environments

Mike Bresnen;Linda Edelman;Sue Newell;Harry Scarbrough

749
Citations
Project-Based Learning and the Role of Learning Boundaries:

Harry Scarbrough;Jacky Swan;Stéphane Laurent;Mike Bresnen

524
Citations
Sharing Knowledge Across Projects Limits to ICT-led Project Review Practices

Sue Newell;Mike Bresnen;Linda F. Edelman;Harry Scarbrough

417
Citations
Building Partnerships: Case Studies of Client-Contractor Collaboration in the UK Construction Industry.

Mike Bresnen;Nicholas Marshall

408
Citations
Embedding New Management Knowledge in Project-Based Organizations

Mike Bresnen;Anna Goussevskaia;Jacky Swan

390
Citations
Motivation, commitment and the use of incentives in partnerships and alliances

Mike Bresnen;Nicholas Marshall

346
Citations
The Benefits and Pitfalls of Social Capital: Empirical Evidence from Two Organizations in the United Kingdom†

Linda F. Edelman;Mike Bresnen;Sue Newell;Harry Scarbrough

328
Citations
Qualitative Research and the Study of Leadership

Alan Bryman;Michael Bresnen;Alan Beardsworth;Teresa Keil

328
Citations
The object of knowledge: The role of objects in biomedical innovation

Jacky Swan;Mike Bresnen;Susan Newell;Maxine Robertson

257
Citations
Deconstructing partnering in project-based organisation: Seven pillars, seven paradoxes and seven deadly sins

Mike Bresnen

212
Citations
The Engineering or Evolution of Co-Operation? A Tale of Two Partnering Projects

Mike Bresnen;Nicholas Marshall

208
Citations
Organizational Routines, Situated Learning and Processes of Change in Project-Based Organizations:

Mike Bresnen;Anna Goussevskaia;Jacky Swan

190
Citations
The Processes of Project-based Learning An Exploratory Study

Harry Scarbrough;Michael Bresnen;Linda F. Edelman;Stephane Laurent

187
Citations
Implementing change in construction project organizations: exploring the interplay between structure and agency

Mike Bresnen;Anna Goussevskaia;Jacky Swan

160
Citations
Understanding the diffusion and application of new management ideas in construction

Mike Bresnen;Nick Marshall

158
Citations
When Policy meets Practice: Colliding Logics and the Challenges of ‘Mode 2’ Initiatives in the Translation of Academic Knowledge

Jacky Swan;Mike Bresnen;Maxine Robertson;Susan Newell

152
Citations
'Best practice' development and transfer in the NHS: the importance of process as well as product knowledge:

Sue Newell;Linda Edelman;Harry Scarbrough;Jacky Swan

152
Citations
All things to all people? Perceptions, attributions, and constructions of leadership

Michael J. Bresnen

119
Citations
Modes of organizing biomedical innovation in the UK and US and the role of integrative and relational capabilities

Jacky Swan;Anna Goussevskaia;Anna Goussevskaia;Susan Newell;Susan Newell;Maxine Robertson

119
Citations
The object of knowledge: the role of objects in biomedical innovation

S. Newell;J. Swan;M. Bresnen

10
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacky Swan University of Warwick

Sue Newell University of Warwick

Maxine Robertson Queen Mary University of London

John Hassard University of Manchester

Harry Scarbrough City, University of London

Linda F. Edelman Bentley University

Alan Bryman University of Leicester

David L. Collinson Lancaster University

Sue Dopson University of Oxford

Stewart Clegg University of Sydney

External Links

Personal website of Mike Bresnen

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