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Business and Management
UK
2024
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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
69
Citations
19682
World Ranking
325
National Ranking
44

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Richard T. Harrison is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in the field of Business, Management, and Accounting. Their work spans several subfields, including Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, and Archeology.

The scientist's main topics of investigation include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Family Business Performance and Succession, Corporate Finance and Governance, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Islamic Finance and Banking Studies, and Cultural Industries and Urban Development.

Richard T. Harrison has published extensively, with notable recent papers such as:

  • "Digital girl: cyberfeminism and the emancipatory potential of digital entrepreneurship in emerging economies" (2020) in Small Business Economics
  • "Beyond profit vs. purpose: Transactional-relational practices in impact investing" (2020) in Journal of Business Venturing Insights
  • "Anointed or appointed? Father-daughter succession within the family business" (2020) in International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship
  • "Why do small businesses have difficulty in accessing bank financing?" (2022) in International Review of Financial Analysis
  • "Business Angel Investment as an Informal Learning Process: Does Experience Matter?" (2021) in British Journal of Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard T. Harrison include:

  • Maura McAdam
  • Franco Montanari
  • Stavros Frangoulidis
  • Fausto Montana
  • Alberto Bernabé

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as Trends in Classics, International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology), and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research

    Richard Harrison;C.G. Brush;P. Davidsson;J. Fiet

  • Towards a process theory of entrepreneurial ecosystems

    Benjamin Spigel;Richard Harrison

  • Entrepreneurial Learning: Researching the Interface Between Learning and the Entrepreneurial Context

    Richard T. Harrison;Claire M. Leitch

  • Is it worth it? The rates of return from informal venture capital investments

    Colin M Mason;Richard T Harrison

  • The Philosophy and Practice of Interpretivist Research in Entrepreneurship: Quality, Validation, and Trust

    Claire M. Leitch;Frances M. Hill;Richard T. Harrison

  • Does Gender Matter? Women Business Angels and the Supply of Entrepreneurial Finance

    Richard T. Harrison;Colin M. Mason

  • Barriers to investment in the informal venture capital sector

    Colin M. Mason;Richard T. Harrison

  • Staying Lean: Thriving, Not Just Surviving

    Peter Arthur Hines;Pauline Found;Richard Harrison;Gary Griffiths

  • Informal venture capital: a study of the investment process, the post-investment experience and investment performance

    Colin M Mason;Richard T. Harrison

  • The development of entrepreneurial leadership : the role of human, social and institutional capital

    Claire M. Leitch;Christel McMullan;Richard T. Harrison

  • After the exit: acquisitions, entrepreneurial recycling and regional economic development

    Colin M. Mason;Richard T. Harrison

  • Closing the regional equity capital gap: The role of informal venture capital

    Colin M. Mason;Richard T. Harrison

  • Voodoo Institution or Entrepreneurial University? Spin-off Companies, the Entrepreneurial System and Regional Development in the UK

    Richard T. Harrison;Claire Leitch

  • Innovation and cooperation in the small firm sector: evidence from 'Northern Britain'

    Mark S. Freel;Richard T. Harrison

  • Financial bootstrapping and venture development in the software industry

    Richard T. Harrison;Colin M. Mason;Paul Girling

  • Venture capital market complementarities: The links between business angels and venture capital funds in the United Kingdom

    Richard T. Harrison;Colin M. Mason

  • The role of trust in the informal investor's investment decision: an exploratory analysis

    Richard T. Harrison;Mark R. Dibben;Colin M. Mason

  • A process model for entrepreneurship education and development

    Claire M. Leitch;Richard T. Harrison

  • International perspectives on the supply of informal venture capital

    Richard T. Harrison;Colin M. Mason

  • Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research

    Richard Harrison;W.D. Bygrave;C.G. Brush;P. Davidsson

  • A Gendered Look at Entrepreneurship Ecosystems

    Candida G Brush;Linda F. Edelman;Richard T. Harrison;Diana Hechavarria

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin Mason
Colin Mason University of Glasgow
Maura McAdam
Maura McAdam Dublin City University
Melvin J. Lerner
Melvin J. Lerner University of Waterloo
Candida G. Brush
Candida G. Brush Babson College
Per Davidsson
Per Davidsson Jönköping University
Peter Hines
Peter Hines South East Technological University
Paul Robson
Paul Robson Royal Holloway University of London
Shaker A. Zahra
Shaker A. Zahra University of Minnesota
Allan Findlay
Allan Findlay University of St Andrews
Alistair R. Anderson
Alistair R. Anderson Lancaster University

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