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Business and Management
UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
76
Citations
29171
World Ranking
200
National Ranking
23

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 Westhead is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans fields such as Business, Management and Accounting, Social Sciences, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. These areas are further detailed through subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, and General Health Professions.

Westhead has contributed to topics including Sharing Economy and Platforms, Digital Marketing and Social Media, Digital Economy and Work Transformation, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Employment and Welfare Studies, Emotional Intelligence and Performance, as well as Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis.

Their recent scholarly publications comprise:

  • The sharing economy: a bibliometric analysis of the state-of-the-art, 2020, published in International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research
  • Emotional demands and entrepreneurial burnout: the role of autonomy and job satisfaction, 2022, published in Small Business Economics

Frequent collaborators in Westhead's research include Sascha Kraus, Hongbo Li, Qi Kang, Victor Tiberius, and Yosr Ben Tahar. The publication venues where Westhead's work often appears include the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research and Small Business Economics.

In addition to journal publications, Westhead has authored books, notably published by Johns Hopkins University and University of Lodz Press. These include:

  • The Speed Game: My Fast Times in Basketball, published in 2020 by Johns Hopkins University
  • Przedsiębiorczość, published in 2024 by University of Lodz Press

Best Publications

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

    Paul Westhead;Mike Wright;Deniz Ucbasaran

  • Cross-national Comparisons of the Variation in New Firm Formation Rates

    Paul Reynolds;David J. Storey;Paul Westhead

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

    Deniz Ucbasaran;Paul Westhead;Mike Wright

  • Family firm research: the need for a methodological rethink

    Paul Westhead;Marc Cowling

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

    Deniz Ucbasaran;Paul Westhead;Mike Wright

  • A taxonomy of business start-up reasons and their impact on firm growth and size

    Sue Birley;Paul Westhead

  • 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

  • Growth and performance contrasts between ‘types’ of small firms

    Sue Birley;Paul Westhead

  • An exploratory examination of the reasons leading to new firm formation across country and gender

    Scott Shane;Lars Kolvereid;Paul Westhead

  • The nature of entrepreneurial experience, business failure and comparative optimism

    Deniz Ucbasaran;Paul Westhead;Mike Wright;Manuel Flores

  • The nature of entrepreneurial experience, business failure and comparative optimism

    Deniz Ucbasaran;Paul Westhead;Paul Westhead;Mike Wright;Mike Wright;Manuel Flores

  • Ownership and Management Issues Associated With Family Firm Performance and Company Objectives

    Paul Westhead;Carole Howorth

  • Entrepreneurial founder teams : factors associated with member entry and exit.

    Deniz Ucbasaran;Andy Lockett;Mike Wright;Paul Westhead

  • Management Training and Small Firm Performance: Why is the Link So Weak?:

    Paul Westhead;David Storey

  • Assessing the impact of university science parks on research productivity: exploratory firm-level evidence from the United Kingdom

    Donald S. Siegel;Paul Westhead;Mike Wright

  • Decisions, Actions, and Performance: Do Novice, Serial, and Portfolio Entrepreneurs Differ?*

    Paul Westhead;Deniz Ucbasaran;Mike Wright

  • The focus of working capital management in UK small firms

    Carole Howorth;Paul Westhead

  • ‘Types’ of private family firms: an exploratory conceptual and empirical analysis

    Paul Westhead;Carole Howorth

  • The Internationalization of SMEs and International Entrepreneurship: A Critique and Policy Implications

    Mike Wright;Paul Westhead;Deniz Ucbasaran

  • R&D ‘inputs’ and ‘outputs’ of technology‐based firms located on and off Science Parks

    Paul Westhead

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Deniz Ucbasaran
Deniz Ucbasaran University of Warwick
Carole Howorth
Carole Howorth University of York
Marc Cowling
Marc Cowling Oxford Brookes University
Sue Birley
Sue Birley Imperial College London
David J. Storey
David J. Storey University of Sussex
Andy Lockett
Andy Lockett University of Warwick
Harry Matlay
Harry Matlay University of the West of Scotland
Paul Robson
Paul Robson Royal Holloway University of London
Donald F. Kuratko
Donald F. Kuratko Indiana University

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