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2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
84
Citations
50985
World Ranking
130
National Ranking
66

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award

Overview

Robert A. Baron is affiliated with Oklahoma State University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Psychology, with a focus on several subfields including Management of Technology and Innovation, Social Psychology, Business and International Management, Applied Psychology, and Safety Research.

The main topics addressed in their work cover Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Emotional Intelligence and Performance, Optimism, Hope, and Well-being, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, and Employment and Welfare Studies.

Robert A. Baron has co-authored research frequently with several scholars, including Richard Crisp, Nancy E. Adler, Bárbara Anderson, Lisa G. Aspinwall, and Carlene Baum.

Their studies have been published in various academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • Journal of Small Business Management
  • Journal of Business Venturing
  • Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
  • Possibility Studies & Society

Recent papers by Robert A. Baron include:

  • Helping the people innovation leaves behind: the potential benefits of entrepreneurship, 2021, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
  • How entrepreneurs turn the possible into the real-and sometimes change the world, 2023, Possibility Studies & Society

Other relevant publications from the broader author group and co-authors related to their research area include:

  • Entrepreneurial alertness: Exploring its psychological antecedents and effects on firm outcomes, 2021, Journal of Small Business Management
  • Rationality in the entrepreneurship process: Is being rational actually rational? Introduction to the special issue, 2023, Journal of Business Venturing
  • Issue Information, 2020, Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Best Publications

  • Behavior in organizations : understanding and managing the human side of work

    Jerald Greenberg;Robert A. Baron

  • Opportunity Recognition as Pattern Recognition: How Entrepreneurs “Connect the Dots” to Identify New Business Opportunities

    Robert A. Baron

  • The Role of Affect in the Entrepreneurial Process

    Robert A. Baron

  • Opportunity Recognition as the Detection of Meaningful Patterns: Evidence from Comparisons of Novice and Experienced Entrepreneurs

    Robert A. Baron;Michael D. Ensley

  • Cognitive mechanisms in entrepreneurship

    Robert A. Baron

  • The cognitive perspective: a valuable tool for answering entrepreneurship's basic “why” questions

    Robert A. Baron

  • Beyond social capital: the role of entrepreneurs' social competence in their financial success

    Robert A Baron;Gideon D Markman

  • Workplace violence and workplace aggression: Evidence on their relative frequency and potential causes

    Robert A. Baron;Joel H. Neuman

  • Social sources of information in opportunity recognition: Effects of mentors, industry networks, and professional forums

    Eren Ozgen;Robert A. Baron

  • Workplace Violence and Workplace Aggression: Evidence Concerning Specific Forms, Potential Causes, and Preferred Targets

    Joel H. Neuman;Robert A. Baron

  • Beyond social capital: How social skills can enhance entrepreneurs' success

    Robert A. Baron;Gideon D. Markman

  • Entrepreneurs' Optimism And New Venture Performance: A Social Cognitive Perspective

    Keith M. Hmieleski;Robert A. Baron

  • Virtual Customer Environments: Testing a Model of Voluntary Participation in Value Co‐creation Activities

    Satish Nambisan;Robert A. Baron

  • Person-entrepreneurship fit: why some people are more successful as entrepreneurs than others

    Gideon D. Markman;Robert A. Baron

  • Entrepreneurship: A Process Perspective

    Robert A. Baron;Scott Andrew Shane

  • Interactions in virtual customer environments: Implications for product support and customer relationship management

    Satish Nambisan;Robert A. Baron

  • Inventors and New Venture Formation: the Effects of General Self–Efficacy and Regretful Thinking:

    Gideon D. Markman;David B. Balkin;Robert A. Baron

  • The role of entrepreneurs in firm-level innovation: Joint effects of positive affect, creativity, and environmental dynamism

    Robert A. Baron;Jintong Tang

  • Behavioral and cognitive factors in entrepreneurship: entrepreneurs as the active element in new venture creation

    Robert A. Baron

  • Negative effects of destructive criticism: impact on conflict, self-efficacy, and task performance.

    Robert A. Baron

  • Environmentally Induced Positive Affect: Its Impact on Self-Efficacy, Task Performance, Negotiation, and Conflict1

    Robert A. Baron

Frequent Co-Authors

Gideon D. Markman
Gideon D. Markman Colorado State University
Jintong Tang
Jintong Tang Saint Louis University
Satish Nambisan
Satish Nambisan Case Western Reserve University
David B. Balkin
David B. Balkin University of Colorado Boulder
Nyla R. Branscombe
Nyla R. Branscombe University of Kansas
Robert Folger
Robert Folger University of Central Florida
Dean A. Shepherd
Dean A. Shepherd University of Notre Dame
Jon C. Carr
Jon C. Carr North Carolina State University
Donn Byrne
Donn Byrne Purdue University West Lafayette
Michael S. Cole
Michael S. Cole Texas Christian University

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