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37
Citations
5559
World Ranking
1978
National Ranking
309

Overview

Paul Robson is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a particular focus on Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Management Science and Operations Research, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Their research covers several main topics, including Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Family Business Performance and Succession, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment, Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting, Corporate Finance and Governance, and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy.

Robson's recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • Social innovation, goal orientation, and openness: insights from social enterprise hybrids (2022) published in Small Business Economics
  • The role of digital presence and investment network signals on the internationalisation of small firms (2020) published in International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship
  • The nascent ecology of social enterprise (2021) published in Small Business Economics
  • To learn or not to learn from new product development project failure: The roles of failure experience and error orientation (2023) published in Technovation
  • Regulatory Focus, Ambidextrous Learning, and Opportunity Recognition in New Product Development (2023) published in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

They have frequently co-authored with Helen Haugh, Catherine L. Wang, Dalal Alrubaishi, Rachel Doern, and William J. Wales, indicating collaborative engagement within the academic community.

Robson's publications often appear in journals such as Small Business Economics, Academy of Management Proceedings, International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship, Technovation, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

In addition to articles, Paul Robson has contributed to book literature with a publication titled Entrepreneurial Orientation: Epistemological, Theoretical, and Empirical Perspectives (2021), under the Advances in entrepreneurship, firm emergence, and growth series.

Best Publications

  • SME Growth: The Relationship with Business Advice and External Collaboration

    Paul J.A. Robson;Robert J. Bennett

  • Small Firm Innovation, Growth and Performance: Evidence from Scotland and Northern England

    Mark S. Freel;Paul J. A. Robson

  • The use of external business advice by SMEs in Britain

    Robert J. Bennett;Paul J. A. Robson

  • Entrepreneurship and innovation in Ghana: enterprising Africa

    Paul J. A. Robson;Helen M. Haugh;Bernard Acquah Obeng

  • Sensemaking and the distortion of critical upward communication in organizations

    Dennis Tourish;Paul Robson

  • Social identity and signalling success factors in online crowdfunding

    Endrit Kromidha;Paul Robson

  • The Barriers to Growth in Ghana

    Paul J. A. Robson;Bernard A. Obeng

  • Networks, Entrepreneurial Orientation and Internationalization Scope: Evidence from Chilean Small and Medium Enterprises

    Christian Felzensztein;Luciano Ciravegna;Paul Robson;José Ernesto Amorós

  • The increasing role of small business in the Chinese economy.

    Alistair R. Anderson;Jin-Hai Li;Richard T. Harrison;Paul J. A. Robson

  • Strategic entrepreneurship and small firm growth in Ghana

    Bernard Acquah Obeng;Paul Robson;Helen Haugh

  • Appropriation strategies and open innovation in SMEs

    Mark Stephen Freel;Paul Robson

  • Managing internal communication: an organizational case study

    Paul J.A. Robson;Dennis Tourish

  • Changing Use of External Business Advice and Government Supports by SMEs in the 1990s

    Robert Bennett;Paul Robson

  • The role of trust and contract in the supply of business advice

    Robert J. Bennett;Paul J. A. Robson

  • Determinants of long-distance investing by business angels in the UK

    Richard T. Harrison;C.M. Mason;Paul J.A. Robson

  • Intensity of interaction in supply of business advice and client impact: a comparison of consultancy, business associations and government support initiatives for SMEs

    Robert J. Bennett;Paul J. A. Robson

  • Exporting intensity, human capital and business ownership experience:

    Paul J.A. Robson;Charles K. Akuetteh;Paul Westhead;Mike Wright

  • The use and impact of business advice by SMEs in Britain: an empirical assessment using logit and ordered logit models

    P.J.A. Robson;R.J. Bennett

  • The role of boards of directors in small and medium‐sized firms

    R.J. Bennett;P.J.A. Robson

  • The Manifestation of Entrepreneurial Orientation in the Social Entrepreneurship Context

    Ghadah Alarifi;Paul Robson;Endrit Kromidha

  • Determinants of of long-distance investing by business angels

    R.T. Harrison;C. Mason;P. Robson

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Bennett
Robert J. Bennett University of Cambridge
Mark Freel
Mark Freel University of Ottawa
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Paul Westhead
Paul Westhead Durham University
Shirley Dex
Shirley Dex University College London
Richard T. Harrison
Richard T. Harrison University of Edinburgh
Dennis Tourish
Dennis Tourish University of Sussex
Sarah Jack
Sarah Jack Stockholm School of Economics
Colin Mason
Colin Mason University of Glasgow
Charles E. Murry
Charles E. Murry University of Washington

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