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Robert J. Bennett is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research center is focused on the intersections of economics, sociology, history, and political science. The scientist's work primarily intersects with fields including Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Artificial Intelligence, and Marketing.

The research topics explored by Bennett cover a range of themes such as Historical Economic and Social Studies, Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, Australian History and Society, American History and Culture, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Firm Innovation and Growth, and Family Business Performance and Succession.

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Bennett are the following papers:

  • "Changes in Victorian entrepreneurship in England and Wales 1851-1911: Methodology and business population estimates," 2021, published in Business History
  • "British employer census returns in new digital records 1851-81; consistency, non-response, and truncation - what this means for analysis," 2022, published in Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History

Additional recent related works involving frequent collaborators include:

  • "Machine learning classification of entrepreneurs in British historical census data," 2020, Information Processing & Management, authored by Piero Montebruno
  • "The British business census of entrepreneurs and firm-size, 1851-1881: New data for economic and business historians," 2020, Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, authored by Carry van Lieshout
  • "Households and entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851-1911," 2020, The History of the Family, authored by Harry Smith

Bennett frequently collaborates with scholars Carry van Lieshout, Harry Smith, Piero Montebruno, Romuald Kilianski, and Leslie Hannah.

The scientist's work has appeared repeatedly in venues such as Apollo (University of Cambridge), arXiv (Cornell University), Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, Business History, and Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich).

Best Publications

  • SME Growth: The Relationship with Business Advice and External Collaboration

    Paul J.A. Robson;Robert J. Bennett

  • The use of external business advice by SMEs in Britain

    Robert J. Bennett;Paul J. A. Robson

  • The benefits of external support to SMEs: “Hard” versus “soft” outcomes and satisfaction levels

    M. Ramsden;R.J. Bennett

  • SME Policy Support in Britain since the 1990s: What have We Learnt?:

    Robert Bennett

  • Environmental systems: Philosophy, analysis, and control

    Robert John Bennett;Richard J. Chorley

  • Business associations and their potential contribution to the competitiveness of SMEs

    Robert J. Bennett

  • Changing Use of External Business Advice and Government Supports by SMEs in the 1990s

    Robert Bennett;Paul Robson

  • The role of trust and contract in the supply of business advice

    Robert J. Bennett;Paul J. A. Robson

  • The Location and Concentration of Businesses in Britain: Business Clusters, Business Services, Market Coverage and Local Economic Development

    Robert J Bennett;Daniel J Graham;William Bratton

  • Administrative Systems and Economic Spaces

    Robert J. Bennett

  • Local government in the new Europe

    R. J. Bennett

  • Enterprise and Human Resource Development: Local Capacity Building

    I.R. Couch;Robert J. Bennett;Andrew McCoshan

  • The Contribution of Business Associations to SMEs: Strategy, Bundling or Reassurance?

    Robert J. Bennett;Mark Ramsden

  • Intensity of interaction in supply of business advice and client impact: a comparison of consultancy, business associations and government support initiatives for SMEs

    Robert J. Bennett;Paul J. A. Robson

  • Local Economic Development Partnerships: An Analysis of Policy Networks in EC-LEDA Local Employment Development Strategies

    Robert J. Bennett;Günter Krebs

  • The use and impact of business advice by SMEs in Britain: an empirical assessment using logit and ordered logit models

    P.J.A. Robson;R.J. Bennett

  • The role of boards of directors in small and medium‐sized firms

    R.J. Bennett;P.J.A. Robson

  • The geography of public finance

    R. J. Bennett

  • Decentralization, local governments, and markets : towards a post-welfare agenda

    R. J. Bennett

  • The Problem of Missing Data on Spatial Surfaces

    R. J. Bennett;R. P. Haining;D. A. Griffith

  • The Logic of Membership of Sectoral Business Associations

    Robert J. Bennett

  • Territory and administration in Europe

    R. J. Bennett

Frequent Co-Authors

John Eyles
John Eyles University of the Witwatersrand
Chris Hamnett
Chris Hamnett King's College London
Erik Swyngedouw
Erik Swyngedouw University of Manchester
Michael Batty
Michael Batty University College London

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