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D-Index
33
Citations
20274
World Ranking
2377
National Ranking
931

Ron Adner publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ron Adner sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 70 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Ron Adner 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 Ron Adner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ron Adner is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on business strategy and innovation, with a strong emphasis on ecosystems and decision-making processes within complex business environments.

Their recent scholarly contributions include several papers: Disruption Through Complements published in 2021 in Strategy Science; Innovating in Ecosystems in 2022 in Research-Technology Management; and Strategy Experiments in Nonexperimental Settings: Challenges of Theory, Inference, and Persuasion in Business Strategy in 2024, also appearing in Strategy Science.

Other publications associated with Ron Adner include notable coauthored work such as The Worst-First Heuristic: How Decision Makers Manage Conjunctive Risk (2022) in Management Science and Strategic Leadership of Business Ecosystems - Charting a New Frontier of Research (2023) in Academy of Management Proceedings.

Frequent collaborators include Michael G. Jacobides, A. Adachi, Rajesh Aggarwal, Rui Albuquerque, and Attila Ambrus, reflecting a collaborative approach in advancing research within their expertise areas.

The primary publication venues where Ron Adner's work appears are:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • The RAND Journal of Economics
  • Strategy Science
  • Management Science
  • Research-Technology Management

Ron Adner's main fields of study are centered in Business, Management and Accounting, supported by subfields such as Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Management Information Systems, and General Decision Sciences.

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Business Strategy and Innovation
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Big Data and Business Intelligence
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Risk Perception and Management

In addition to their articles, Ron Adner has contributed to book publications, with at least one book titled Winning the Right Game published in 2021 by The MIT Press.

Best Publications

  • Value creation in innovation ecosystems: how the structure of technological interdependence affects firm performance in new technology generations

    Ron Adner;Rahul Kapoor

  • Match your innovation strategy to your innovation ecosystem

    Ron Adner

  • Ecosystem as Structure: An Actionable Construct for Strategy

    Ron Adner

  • Corporate effects and dynamic managerial capabilities

    Ron Adner;Constance E. Helfat

  • When Are Technologies Disruptive: A Demand-Based View of the Emergence of Competition

    Ron Adner

  • Demand Heterogeneity and Technology Evolution: Implications for Product and Process Innovation

    Ron Adner;Daniel Levinthal

  • What Is Not A Real Option: Considering Boundaries for the Application of Real Options to Business Strategy

    Ron Adner;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • Innovation ecosystems and the pace of substitution: Re‐examining technology S‐curves

    Ron Adner;Rahul Kapoor

  • A demand-based perspective on sustainable competitive advantage

    Ron Adner;Peter Zemsky

  • Disruptive Technologies and the Emergence of Competition

    Ron Adner;Peter Zemsky

  • The Emergence of Emerging Technologies

    Ron Adner;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • Old technology responses to new technology threats: demand heterogeneity and technology retreats

    Ron Adner;Daniel Snow

  • What Is Different About Digital Strategy? From Quantitative to Qualitative Change

    Ron Adner;Phanish Puranam;Feng Zhu

  • What Firms Make vs. What They Know: How Firms' Production and Knowledge Boundaries Affect Competitive Advantage in the Face of Technological Change

    Rahul Kapoor;Ron Adner

  • The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation

    Ron Adner

  • The Case for Formal Theory

    Ron Adner;Laszlo Polos;Michael D Ryall;Olav Sorenson

  • Real Options and Real Tradeoffs

    Ron Adner;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • Profits and the Internet: Seven Misconceptions

    Subramanian Rangan;Ron Adner

  • Real Options Logic Revisited: The Performance Effects of Alternative Resource Allocation Regimes

    Ronald Klingebiel;Ron Adner

  • Doing versus seeing: acts of exploitation and perceptions of exploration

    Ron Adner;Daniel Levinthal

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael G. Jacobides
Michael G. Jacobides London Business School
Daniel A. Levinthal
Daniel A. Levinthal University of Pennsylvania
Constance E. Helfat
Constance E. Helfat Dartmouth College
Carliss Y. Baldwin
Carliss Y. Baldwin Harvard University
Marco Iansiti
Marco Iansiti Harvard University
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt Stanford University
Jay B. Barney
Jay B. Barney University of Utah
Melissa A. Schilling
Melissa A. Schilling New York University

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