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2024
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2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
156
Citations
107511
World Ranking
1
National Ranking
1

Economics and Finance

D-Index
156
Citations
106492
World Ranking
5
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management

Overview

Mike Wright was affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. The main field of their research was Business, Management and Accounting, with a strong focus on related subfields such as Accounting, Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Economics and Econometrics, and Management Information Systems.

Their work covered various key topics, notably Private Equity and Venture Capital, Corporate Finance and Governance, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Innovation and Knowledge Management, State Capitalism and Financial Governance, FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance, as well as Business Strategy and Innovation.

Frequent publication venues for their research included:

  • Journal of Management
  • Academy of Management Perspectives
  • Journal of World Business
  • Small Business Economics
  • Journal of Family Business Strategy

Some of the recent papers associated with Mike Wright were:

  • State capitalism in international context: Varieties and variations (2020), Journal of World Business
  • Resource-Based Theory and the Value Creation Framework (2021), Journal of Management (co-authored by Jay B. Barney)
  • The Evolution of Resource-Based Inquiry: A Review and Meta-Analytic Integration of the Strategic Resources-Actions-Performance Pathway (2021), Journal of Management (co-authored by Laura D'Oria)
  • Corporate entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda (2022), Small Business Economics (co-authored by David Urbano)
  • Family management and family guardianship: Governance effects on family firm innovation strategy (2021), Journal of Family Business Strategy (co-authored by Louise Scholes)

Mike Wright collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • John Gilligan
  • David J. Ketchen
  • Geoffrey Wood
  • Ilya Okhmatovskiy
  • Anna Grosman

In terms of book publications, Mike Wright authored at least one book titled Private Equity Demystified published by Oxford University Press in 2020.

Throughout their career, Mike Wright received multiple awards such as the 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow, Fellow of the British Academy of Management, and the Mentor Award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • The resource-based view of the firm: Ten years after 1991

    Jay Barney;Mike Wright;David J. Ketchen

  • Strategy in Emerging Economies

    Robert E. Hoskisson;Lorraine Eden;Chung Ming Lau;Mike Wright

  • Strategy Research in Emerging Economies: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom*

    Mike Wright;Igor Filatotchev;Robert E. Hoskisson;Mike W. Peng

  • The Future of Resource-Based Theory: Revitalization or Decline?

    Jay B. Barney;David J. Ketchen;Mike Wright

  • The internationalization of new and small firms: A resource-based view

    Paul Westhead;Mike Wright;Deniz Ucbasaran

  • Critical junctures in the development of university high-tech spinout companies

    Ajay Vohora;Mike Wright;Andy Lockett

  • The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes

    Satish Nambisan;Mike Wright;Maryann Feldman

  • Entrepreneurial innovation: The importance of context

    Erkko Autio;Martin Kenney;Martin Kenney;Philippe Mustar;Don Siegel

  • Science parks and incubators: Observations, synthesis and future research

    Phillip H. Phan;Donald S. Siegel;Mike Wright

  • Spinning out new ventures: a typology of incubation strategies from European research institutions

    Bart Clarysse;Mike Wright;Andy Lockett;Els Van de Velde

  • Digital affordances, spatial affordances, and the genesis of entrepreneurial ecosystems

    Erkko Autio;Erkko Autio;Satish Nambisan;Llewellyn D. W. Thomas;Mike Wright;Mike Wright

  • Resources, capabilities, risk capital and the creation of university spin-out companies

    Andy Lockett;Mike Wright

  • 30 years after Bayh–Dole: Reassessing academic entrepreneurship

    Rosa Grimaldi;Martin Kenney;Martin Kenney;Donald S. Siegel;Mike Wright;Mike Wright

  • The Focus of Entrepreneurial Research: Contextual and Process Issues:

    Deniz Ucbasaran;Paul Westhead;Mike Wright

  • Opportunity Identification and Pursuit: Does an Entrepreneur’s Human Capital Matter?

    Deniz Ucbasaran;Paul Westhead;Mike Wright

  • New financial alternatives in seeding entrepreneurship: microfinance, crowdfunding, and peer-to-peer innovations

    Garry D. Bruton;Susanna Khavul;Susanna Khavul;Donald Siegel;Mike Wright

  • Academic Entrepreneurship in Europe

    Mike Wright;Bart Clarysse;Philippe Mustar;Andy Lockett

  • Novice, portfolio, and serial founders: are they different?

    Paul Westhead;Mike Wright

  • The extent and nature of opportunity identification by experienced entrepreneurs

    Deniz Ucbasaran;Paul Westhead;Paul Westhead;Mike Wright;Mike Wright

  • Creating value in ecosystems: Crossing the chasm between knowledge and business ecosystems

    Bart Clarysse;Mike Wright;Johan Bruneel;Aarti Mahajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Westhead
Paul Westhead Durham University
Andy Lockett
Andy Lockett University of Warwick
Igor Filatotchev
Igor Filatotchev King's College London
Bart Clarysse
Bart Clarysse ETH Zurich
Donald S. Siegel
Donald S. Siegel Arizona State University
Sophie Manigart
Sophie Manigart Vlerick Business School
Deniz Ucbasaran
Deniz Ucbasaran University of Warwick
Trevor Buck
Trevor Buck University of Glasgow
Nick Wilson
Nick Wilson University of Leeds
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

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