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Business and Management
UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
57
Citations
8815
World Ranking
668
National Ranking
101

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Paul Edwards is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and has contributed research across various interdisciplinary fields. Their work spans sociology, political science, economics, econometrics, ecology, civil and structural engineering, and global and planetary change. This range reflects a broad engagement with both social sciences and environmental studies.

Edwards has examined topics including employment and welfare studies, innovation diffusion and forecasting, innovation, sustainability, human-machine systems, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, protist diversity and phylogeny, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils. These topics illustrate an emphasis on innovation and sustainability alongside biological and ecological research.

The scientist has published in several academic venues, contributing to the body of knowledge in environmental resources, marine geology, road materials, and peer-reviewed journals:

  • Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • PeerJ
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Road Materials and Pavement Design
  • Journal of the British Academy

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Paul Edwards include:

  • "Digitalization and the Anthropocene," 2022, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • "Systematic review of marine environmental DNA metabarcoding studies: toward best practices for data usability and accessibility," 2023, PeerJ
  • "Integrated bio- and chemo-stratigraphy for Early Cretaceous strata offshore Gabon: Additional constraints on the timing of salt deposition and rifting of the South Atlantic," 2022, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • "Institutions, Infrastructures, and Innovation," 2021, Computer
  • "Rubberised stone mastic asphalt mixtures: a performance-related evaluation," 2022, Road Materials and Pavement Design

Paul Edwards has collaborated with a number of frequent co-authors, which include:

  • Felix Creutzig
  • Daron Acemoğlu
  • Xuemei Bai
  • Marie Josefine Hintz
  • Lynn H. Kaack

Best Publications

  • The social organization of industrial conflict : control and resistance in the workplace

    P. K. Edwards

  • Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism: A Practical Guide

    Paul K. Edwards;Joe O'Mahoney;Steve Vincent

  • The dynamics of informality : employment relations in small firms and the effects of regulatory change

    Monder Ram;P. K. Edwards;Mark William Gilman;James Arrowsmith

  • Mixed embeddedness and new migrant enterprise in the UK

    Trevor Jones;Monder Ram;Paul Edwards;Alex Kiselinchev

  • High-involvement work systems and performance outcomes: the strength of variable, contingent and context-bound relationships

    Paul Edwards;Martyn Wright

  • Linking HR formality with employee job quality: The role of firm and workplace size

    David J. Storey;George Saridakis;Sukanya Sen-Gupta;Paul K. Edwards

  • The politics of working life

    Paul Edwards;Judy Wajcman

  • The possibilities and limits of telework in a bureaucratic environment : Lessons from the public sector

    Laurent Taskin;Paul K. Edwards

  • The Determinants of Employee Responses to Total Quality Management: Six Case Studies

    Paul Edwards;Margaret Collinson;Chris Rees

  • The Impact of the National Minimum Wage in Small Firms

    James Arrowsmith;Mark W. Gilman;Paul Edwards;Monder Ram

  • Staying Underground: Informal Work, Small Firms, and Employment Regulation in the United Kingdom:

    Monder Ram;Paul Edwards;Trevor Jones

  • Power and the Diffusion of Organizational Change within Multinational Enterprises

    Anthony Ferner;Paul Edwards

  • The nature of front-line service work: distinctive features and continuity in the employment relationship

    Jacques Bélanger;Paul Edwards

  • The Conditions Promoting Compromise in the Workplace

    Jacques Bélanger;Paul Edwards

  • Praising Caesar Not Burying Him: What We Know about Employment Relations in Small Firms

    Monder Ram;Paul Edwards

  • Engaging with super-diversity: New migrant businesses and the research–policy nexus

    Monder Ram;Trevor Jones;Paul Edwards;Alexander Kiselinchev

  • Surviving on the margins of the economy: Working relationships in small, low-wage firms

    Paul Edwards;Monder Ram

  • When and why is small beautiful? The experience of work in the small firm:

    Chin-Ju Tsai;Sukanya Sengupta;Paul Edwards

  • Pay determination in small firms in the UK: the case of the response to the National Minimum Wage

    Mark Gilman;Paul Edwards;Monder Ram;James Arrowsmith

  • The challenging but promising future of industrial relations: developing theory and method in context-sensitive research†

    Paul Edwards

  • Industrial relations : theory and practice in Britain

    P. K. Edwards

Frequent Co-Authors

Monder Ram
Monder Ram Aston University
Anthony Ferner
Anthony Ferner University of Sussex
Tony Edwards
Tony Edwards Loughborough University
Judy Wajcman
Judy Wajcman London School of Economics and Political Science
Trevor Jones
Trevor Jones Aston University
John Storey
John Storey The Open University
David J. Storey
David J. Storey University of Sussex
George Saridakis
George Saridakis University of Kent
Hugh Scullion
Hugh Scullion University of Hull
David L. Collinson
David L. Collinson Lancaster University

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