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Business and Management
USA
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
75
Citations
22296
World Ranking
227
National Ranking
108

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  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award

Overview

Pankaj C. Patel is affiliated with Villanova University in the United States. Their research spans several major fields, including Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these broader areas, Patel has contributed to subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science, and Strategy and Management.

The scientist's work covers diverse main topics, including Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Corporate Finance and Governance, Family Business Performance and Succession, Firm Innovation and Growth, Employment and Welfare Studies, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, and Private Equity and Venture Capital.

Patel has published extensively in various academic journals. The frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Business Research
  • Applied Economics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Business Venturing Insights
  • Small Business Economics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Patel include:

  • "Decentralized Governance of Digital Platforms," 2020, Journal of Management
  • "Industry 4.0 and supply chain performance: A systematic literature review of the benefits, challenges, and critical success factors of 11 core technologies," 2022, Industrial Marketing Management
  • "Unfolding the digital servitization path from products to product-service-software systems: Practicing change through intentional narratives," 2021, Journal of Business Research
  • "Financial literacy and self employment - The moderating effect of gender and race," 2021, Journal of Business Research
  • "Managing information for innovation using knowledge integration capability: The role of boundary spanning objects," 2021, International Journal of Information Management

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Marcus T. Wolfe
  • Pejvak Oghazi
  • Srikant Devaraj
  • Divesh Ojha
  • Efthymios G. Tsionas

Best Publications

  • Variations in R&D Investments of Family and Nonfamily Firms: Behavioral Agency and Myopic Loss Aversion Perspectives

    James J. Chrisman;Pankaj C. Patel

  • Measuring entrepreneurial passion: Conceptual foundations and scale validation

    Melissa S. Cardon;Denis A. Gregoire;Christopher E. Stevens;Pankaj C. Patel

  • Unlocking the black box: exploring the link between high-performance work systems and performance.

    Jake G. Messersmith;Pankaj C. Patel;David P. Lepak;Julian S. Gould-Williams

  • High-Performance Work Systems and Job Control Consequences for Anxiety, Role Overload, and Turnover Intentions

    Jaclyn M. Jensen;Pankaj C. Patel;Jake G. Messersmith

  • Walking the Tightrope: An Assessment of the Relationship between High-Performance Work Systems and Organizational Ambidexterity

    Pankaj C. Patel;Jake G. Messersmith;David P. Lepak

  • Group Faultlines: A Review, Integration, and Guide to Future Research

    Sherry M. B. Thatcher;Pankaj C. Patel

  • Too much of a good thing? Absorptive capacity, firm performance, and the moderating role of entrepreneurial orientation

    William J. Wales;Vinit Parida;Pankaj C. Patel

  • The relationship between digitalization and servitization: The role of servitization in capturing the financial potential of digitalization

    Marko Kohtamäki;Vinit Parida;Vinit Parida;Pankaj C. Patel;Heiko Gebauer

  • In the Horns of the Dilemma: Socioemotional Wealth, Financial Wealth, and Acquisitions in Family Firms:

    Luis R. Gomez-Mejia;Pankaj C. Patel;Thomas M. Zellweger

  • The effect of environmental complexity and environmental dynamism on lean practices

    Arash Azadegan;Pankaj C. Patel;Abouzar Zangoueinezhad;Kevin Linderman

  • The effect of environmental complexity and environmental dynamism on lean practices

    Arash Azadegan;Pankaj C. Patel;Abouzar Zangoueinezhad;Kevin Linderman

  • In Pursuit of Greatness: CEO Narcissism, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Firm Performance Variance

    William J. Wales;Pankaj C. Patel;G. T. Lumpkin

  • How Do Young Firms Manage Product Portfolio Complexity? The Role of Absorptive Capacity and Ambidexterity

    Stephanie A. Fernhaber;Pankaj C. Patel

  • Nonlinear Effects of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Small Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of Resource Orchestration Capabilities

    William J. Wales;Pankaj C. Patel;Vinit Parida;Vinit Parida;Patrick M. Kreiser

  • Demographic faultlines: a meta-analysis of the literature.

    Sherry M. B. Thatcher;Pankaj C. Patel

  • Enhancing effects of manufacturing flexibility through operational absorptive capacity and operational ambidexterity

    Pankaj C. Patel;Siri Terjesen;Dan Li

  • Decentralized Governance of Digital Platforms

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  • Risk abatement as a strategy for R&D investments in family firms

    Pankaj C. Patel;James J. Chrisman;James J. Chrisman

  • Is Stress Worth it? Stress-Related Health and Wealth Trade-Offs for Entrepreneurs

    Melissa S. Cardon;Pankaj C. Patel

  • Knowledge Combination and the Potential Advantages of Family Firms in Searching for Opportunities

    Pankaj C. Patel;James O. Fiet

  • Structural Power Equality between Family and Non-Family TMT Members and the Performance of Family Firms

    Pankaj C. Patel;Danielle Cooper

  • Entrepreneurial orientation‐as‐experimentation and firm performance: The enabling role of absorptive capacity

    Pankaj C. Patel;Marko Kohtamäki;Marko Kohtamäki;Vinit Parida;Joakim Wincent;Joakim Wincent

  • In Search of Process Innovations The Role of Search Depth, Search Breadth, and the Industry Environment

    Siri Terjesen;Pankaj C. Patel

Frequent Co-Authors

Siri Terjesen
Siri Terjesen Florida Atlantic University
Vinit Parida
Vinit Parida Luleå University of Technology
Joakim Wincent
Joakim Wincent Hanken School of Economics
James J. Chrisman
James J. Chrisman Mississippi State University
David P. Lepak
David P. Lepak University of Massachusetts Amherst
Marko Kohtamäki
Marko Kohtamäki University of Vaasa
Kevin Linderman
Kevin Linderman University of Minnesota
Thomas Zellweger
Thomas Zellweger University of St. Gallen
Roy Thurik
Roy Thurik Montpellier Business School
Jayanth Jayaram
Jayanth Jayaram University of North Carolina Wilmington

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