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Business and Management
UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
67
Citations
19890
World Ranking
361
National Ranking
48

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

Rajneesh Narula is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with additional contributions to Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these domains, Narula's work is notably concentrated on Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The research topics explored by Narula encompass a diverse range of subjects including:

  • International Business and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Global trade and economics
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts

Among Narula's recent publications are several papers that focus on contemporary global economic challenges and innovation dynamics. These include:

  • "European SMEs amidst the COVID-19 crisis: assessing impact and policy responses" (2020), published in the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
  • "Innovation in and from emerging economies: New insights and lessons for international business research" (2021), published in the Journal of International Business Studies
  • "Policy opportunities and challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic for economies with large informal sectors" (2020), published in the Journal of International Business Policy
  • "Organizational learning, unlearning and re-internationalization timing: Differences between emerging- versus developed-market MNEs" (2020), published in the Journal of International Management
  • "Global Value Chain Resilience: Understanding the Impact of Managerial Governance Adaptations" (2022), published in California Management Review

Rajneesh Narula has co-authored research with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Irina Surdu
  • Jill Juergensen
  • Jong Min Lee
  • Khadija van der Straaten
  • André Pineli

Narula's work has appeared multiple times in leading publication venues, with a strong presence in:

  • Journal of International Business Studies
  • Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of International Business Policy
  • International Business Review

In addition to their articles, Narula has contributed to academic literature through book publications. Notably, they have authored a book titled Crises and Disruptions in International Business (2022), published by Springer International Publishing.

Best Publications

  • Multinational Enterprises and Local Contexts: The Opportunities and Challenges of Multiple Embeddedness

    Klaus E. Meyer;Ram Mudambi;Rajneesh Narula

  • Industrial Development, Globalization and Multinational Enterprises: New Realities for Developing Countries

    Rajneesh Narula;John H. Dunning

  • R&D collaboration by SMEs: new opportunities and limitations in the face of globalisation

    Rajneesh Narula;Rajneesh Narula

  • Foreign Direct Investment and Governments: Catalysts for economic restructuring

    John H. Dunning;Rajneesh Narula

  • Innovating through strategic alliances: moving towards international partnerships and contractual agreements

    Rajneesh Narula;John Hagedoorn

  • Globalisation of Innovation

    Rajneesh Narula;Antonello Zanfei

  • The R&D Activities of Foreign Firms in the United States

    John H. Dunning;Rajneesh Narula

  • Choosing Organizational Modes of Strategic Technology Partnering: International and Sectoral Differences

    John Hagedoorn;Rajneesh Narula

  • Multinational investment and economic structure : globalisation and competitiveness

    Rajneesh Narula

  • Foreign direct investment and its role in economic development: do we need a new agenda?

    Sanjaya Lall;Rajneesh Narula

  • Multinational enterprises, development and globalisation: some clarifications and a research agenda

    Rajneesh Narula;John H. Dunning

  • Innovation systems and ‘inertia’ in R&D location: Norwegian firms and the role of systemic lock-in

    Rajneesh Narula

  • European SMEs amidst the COVID-19 crisis: assessing impact and policy responses

    Jill Juergensen;José Guimón;Rajneesh Narula

  • Globalisation of innovation: the role of multinational enterprises

    Rajneesh Narula;Antonello Zanfei

  • The Eclectic Paradigm in the Global Economy

    John Cantwell;Rajneesh Narula

  • A novel approach to national technological accumulation and absorptive capacity: Aggregating Cohen and Levinthal

    Paola Criscuolo;Rajneesh Narula

  • Choosing between internal and non-internal R&D activities: some technological and economic factors

    Rajneesh Narula

  • Do we need different frameworks to explain infant MNEs from developing countries

    Rajneesh Narula

  • Choosing between internal and non-internal R&D activities: some technological and economic factors

    Rajneesh Narula

  • Environmental influences on MNE subsidiary roles: Economic integration and the Nordic countries

    Gabriel R. G. Benito;Birgitte Grøgaard;Rajneesh Narula

  • Role of home and host country innovation systems in r&d internationalisation: a patent citation analysis

    Paola Criscuolo;Rajneesh Narula;Bart Verspagen

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Dunning
John H. Dunning University of Reading
John Hagedoorn
John Hagedoorn Royal Holloway University of London
Alain Verbeke
Alain Verbeke University of Calgary
John Cantwell
John Cantwell Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Gabriel R. G. Benito
Gabriel R. G. Benito BI Norwegian Business School
Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra
Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra Northeastern University
Sanjaya Lall
Sanjaya Lall University of Oxford
Ram Mudambi
Ram Mudambi Temple University
Bart Verspagen
Bart Verspagen Maastricht University
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science

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