Robert Blackburn

Robert Blackburn publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

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Robert Blackburn D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert Blackburn sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Researching the small enterprise

  James Curran;Robert A. Blackburn

  1128
  Citations

• The business case for sustainability? An examination of small firms in the UK's construction and restaurant sectors

  Andrea Revell;Robert Blackburn

  656
  Citations

• Small Firms and Local Economic Networks: The Death of the Local Economy?

  James Curran;Robert A. Blackburn

  644
  Citations

• Small business performance: business, strategy and owner‐manager characteristics

  Robert A. Blackburn;Mark Hart;Thomas Wainwright

  612
  Citations

• Researching small firms and entrepreneurship: Past, present and future

  Robert Blackburn;Anne Kovalainen

  448
  Citations

• Networks and Small Firms: Constructs, Methodological Strategies and Some Findings:

  James Curran;Robin Jarvis;Robert A. Blackburn;Sharon Black

  435
  Citations

• Fix or fixation? The contributions and limitations of entrepreneurship and small firms to combating social exclusion

  Robert Blackburn;Monder Ram

  354
  Citations

• Older People and the Enterprise Society: Age and Self-Employment Propensities

  James Curran;Robert A Blackburn

  312
  Citations

• Learning the hard way: the lessons of owner‐managers who have closed their businesses

  David Stokes;Robert Blackburn

  305
  Citations

• Environmental management and the small firm: an international comparison

  Robert Rutherfoord;Robert A. Blackburn;Laura J. Spence

  243
  Citations

• The nature of training and motivation to train in small firms

  John Kitching;Robert Blackburn

  237
  Citations

• Pathways to entrepreneurial growth: The influence of management, marketing, and money

  Candida G. Brush;Dennis J. Ceru;Robert Blackburn

  226
  Citations

• Linking HR formality with employee job quality: The role of firm and workplace size

  David J. Storey;George Saridakis;Sukanya Sen-Gupta;Paul K. Edwards

  222
  Citations

• Breaking Down the Barriers: Using Focus Groups to Research Small and Medium-sized Enterprises:

  Robert Blackburn;David Stokes

  216
  Citations

• Intellectual property management in the small and medium enterprise (SME)

  John Kitching;Robert Blackburn

  212
  Citations

• Are the HR responses of small firms different from large firms in times of recession

  Yanqing Lai;George Saridakis;Robert Blackburn;Stewart Johnstone

  206
  Citations

• Older People and the Enterprise Society: Age and Self-Employment Propensities

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  177
  Citations

• Researching Small Firms and Entrepreneurship in the U.K.: Developments and Distinctiveness

  Robert A. Blackburn;David Smallbone;David Smallbone

  164
  Citations

• Business strategies and performance during difficult economic conditions

  John Kitching;Robert Blackburn;David Smallbone;Sarah Dixon

  159
  Citations

• Establishing Small Firms' Training Practices, Needs, Difficulties and Use of Industry Training Organisations

  James Curran;Robert Blackburn;John Kitching;Julian North

  139
  Citations