2026 Rod B. McNaughton: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	32	2581	2436	16	16	120	7858

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Overview

Rod B. McNaughton is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand and specializes primarily in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research portfolio includes a considerable focus on strategy and management, accounting, management of technology and innovation, organizational behavior and human resource management, as well as management information systems.

Their research covers several key topics, including:

Innovation and Knowledge Management
Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
Private Equity and Venture Capital
International Business and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
Corporate Finance and Governance
Family Business Performance and Succession
FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance

McNaughton's recent publications illustrate a broad engagement with contemporary business challenges. Notable papers include:

"COVID-19 and the global venture capital landscape," 2021, published in Small Business Economics
"Entrepreneurial heuristics: Making strategic decisions in highly uncertain environments," 2023, published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
"Inexperienced decision-makers' use of positive heuristics for marketing decisions," 2021, published in Management Decision
"The Multiple Dimensions of Embeddedness of Small Multinational Enterprises," 2022, published in Management International Review
"COVID-19 and the Global Venture Capital Landscape," 2021, published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators in their work include Antoine Gilbert-Saad, Frank Siedlok, Cristiano Bellavitis, Christian Fisch, and Olli Kuivalainen. These collaborations have contributed to various multi-authored papers, reflecting an interdisciplinary and networked approach to research.

Their publications have appeared in several academic journals, reflecting the diversity of their research interests. Common venues include:

Small Business Economics
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Management International Review
Management Decision
SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

Examining the link between knowledge management practices and types of innovation

Jenny Darroch;Rod McNaughton

1402
Citations
Towards an Integrative Model of Small Firm Internationalisation

Jim Bell;Rod McNaughton;Stephen Young;Dave Crick

1197
Citations
‘Born-again global’ firms: An extension to the ‘born global’ phenomenon

Jim Bell;Rod McNaughton;Stephen Young

914
Citations
Resilience and entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review

Stefan Korber;Rodney McNaughton

464
Citations
Beyond market orientation: Knowledge management and the innovativeness of New Zealand firms

Jenny Darroch;Rod McNaughton

354
Citations
Internationalization patterns of small and medium‐sized enterprises

Olli Kuivalainen;Sanna Sundqvist;Sami Saarenketo;Rod McNaughton

288
Citations
ENTRE-U: An entrepreneurial orientation scale for universities

Zelimir William Todorovic;Rod B. McNaughton;Paul Guild

263
Citations
A cross-national study on the impact of management teams on the rapid internationalization of small firms

S. Loane;J.D. Bell;R. McNaughton

257
Citations
The Number of Export Markets that a Firm Serves: Process Models versus the Born-Global Phenomenon

Rod B. McNaughton

222
Citations
The Internationalization of Internet-Enabled Entrepreneurial Firms: Evidence from Europe and North America

Sharon Loane;Rod B. McNaughton;Jim Bell

196
Citations
The Service Quality Construct on a Global Stage

Brian C. Imrie;John W. Cadogan;Rod McNaughton

191
Citations
Market‐oriented value creation in service firms

Rod B. McNaughton;Phil Osborne;Brian C. Imrie

191
Citations
Market orientation and firm value

Rod B. McNaughton;Phil Osborne;Robert E. Morgan;Gopal Kutwaroo

121
Citations
Beyond learning by experience: The use of alternative learning processes by incrementally and rapidly internationalizing SMEs

Juan M. Pellegrino;Rod B. McNaughton

115
Citations
The export mode decision‐making process in small knowledge‐intensive firms

Rod B. McNaughton

104
Citations
Determinants of Time-Span to Foreign Market Entry

Rod B. McNaughton

90
Citations
The Co-evolution of Learning and Internationalization Strategy in International New Ventures

Juan M. Pellegrino;Rod B. McNaughton

84
Citations
International E-Business Marketing

Richard Fletcher;Jim Bell;Rod B McNaughton

82
Citations
The use of multiple export channels by small knowledge‐intensive firms

Rod B. McNaughton

77
Citations
Individual-level antecedents to market-oriented actions

Francine K. Schlosser;Rod B. McNaughton

76
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Fisch University of Luxembourg

Sami Saarenketo Lappeenranta University of Technology

Olli Kuivalainen Lappeenranta University of Technology

Pavlos Dimitratos University of Glasgow

John W. Cadogan University of Leicester

Dave Crick University of Ottawa

Robert E. Morgan Cardiff University

External Links

Personal website of Rod B. McNaughton Google Scholar page

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