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Nicholas O'Regan

Nicholas O'Regan

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Business and Management

D-Index
46
Citations
9183
World Ranking
1224
National Ranking
191

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management

Overview

Nicholas O'Regan is affiliated with Aston University in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the broad field of Business, Management, and Accounting, with substantial contributions to subfields including Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, and Gender Studies.

Their recent publications reflect diverse interests across various management topics and business challenges. Notable papers include:

  • "How can SMEs successfully navigate VUCA environment: The role of agility in the digital transformation era" (2021) published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • ""Real impact": Challenges and opportunities in bridging the gap between research and practice - Making a difference in industry, policy, and society" (2024) published in International Journal of Information Management
  • "Global value chains and digital platforms: Implications for strategy" (2022) published in Strategic Change
  • "COVID-19 Pandemic: The Interplay Between Firm Disruption and Managerial Attention Focus" (2021) published in British Journal of Management
  • "Entrepreneurial behavior and firm performance: The mediating role of business model novelty" (2021) published in R and D Management

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Abby Ghobadian
  • David Sarpong
  • Ciro Troise
  • Tian Han
  • V. K. Narayanan

Their work appears regularly in publication venues such as:

  • Strategic Change
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • International Journal of Information Management
  • British Journal of Management

The main topics explored by Nicholas O'Regan in their research include:

  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Business Strategy and Innovation
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Corporate Finance and Governance

Nicholas O'Regan has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom as well as a Fellow of the British Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • Social innovation and social entrepreneurship: : A systematic review

    Wendy Phillips;Hazel Sung-yan Lee;Abby Ghobadian;Nicholas O’Regan

  • Fast tracking innovation in manufacturing SMEs

    Nicholas O'Regan;Abby Ghobadian;Martin A. Sims

  • In search of the drivers of high growth in manufacturing SMEs

    Nicholas O'Regan;Abby Ghobadian;David Gallear

  • e-Leadership through strategic alignment: an empirical study of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the digital age

    Weizi Li;Kecheng Liu;Maksim Belitski;Abby Ghobadian

  • Innovation in SMEs: the impact of strategic orientation and environmental perceptions

    Nicholas O'Regan;Abby Ghobadian

  • The importance of capabilities for strategic direction and performance

    Nicholas O’Regan;Abby Ghobadian

  • How can SMEs successfully navigate VUCA environment: The role of agility in the digital transformation era

    Ciro Troise;Vincenzo Corvello;Abby Ghobadian;Nicholas O'Regan

  • Business-level strategy and performance: The moderating effects of environment and structure

    M.K. Nandakumar;Abby Ghobadian;Nicholas O'Regan

  • Effective strategic planning in small and medium sized firms

    Nicholas O’Regan;Abby Ghobadian

  • Formal strategic planning: The key to effective business process management?

    Nicholas O’Regan;Abby Ghobadian

  • Examining legitimatisation of additive manufacturing in the interplay between innovation, lean manufacturing and sustainability

    Abby Ghobadian;Irene Talavera;Arijit Bhattacharya;Vikas Kumar

  • The Impact of Ownership on Small Firm Behaviour and Performance

    Abby Ghobadian;Nicholas O'Regan

  • Scholarship That Matters: Academic–Practitioner Engagement in Business and Management

    Tim Hughes;David Bence;Louise Grisoni;Nicholas O'regan

  • Perceptions of generic strategies of small and medium sized engineering and electronics manufacturers in the UK: The applicability of the Miles and Snow typology

    Nicholas O'Regan;Abby Ghobadian

  • Generic strategies and performance: evidence from manufacturing firms

    M.K. Nandakumar;Abby Ghobadian;Nicholas O'Regan

  • Testing the homogeneity of SMEs: The impact of size on managerial and organisational processes

    Nicholas O'Regan;Abby Ghobadian

  • Private-public partnerships: policy and experience

    Abby Ghobadian;Nicholas O'Regan;David Gallear;Howard Viney

  • High performance: ownership and decision‐making in SMEs

    Nicholas O'Regan;Martin Sims;Abby Ghobadian

  • Business model design–performance relationship under external and internal contingencies: Evidence from SMEs in an emerging economy

    Rakesh Kumar Pati;Rakesh Kumar Pati;Mankavil Kovil Veettil Nandakumar;Abby Ghobadian;R. Duane Ireland

  • Implementing dynamic capabilities for corporate strategic change towards sustainability

    Qiang Wu;Qile He;Yanqing Duan;Nicholas O'Regan

  • The use and deployment of soft process technologies within UK manufacturing SMEs: an empirical assessment using logit models

    Kevin F. Mole;Abby Ghobadian;Nicholas O'Regan;Jonathan Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Abby Ghobadian
Abby Ghobadian University of Reading
John A. Parnell
John A. Parnell University of North Alabama
Glenn Parry
Glenn Parry University of Surrey
V Kumar
V Kumar Brock University
Mairi Maclean
Mairi Maclean University of Bath
Howard Thomas
Howard Thomas Singapore Management University
Michael A. Hitt
Michael A. Hitt Texas A&M University
R. Duane Ireland
R. Duane Ireland Texas A&M University
Oscar F. Bustinza
Oscar F. Bustinza University of Granada
Ferran Vendrell-Herrero
Ferran Vendrell-Herrero University of Edinburgh

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