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Business and Management

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56
Citations
15228
World Ranking
692
National Ranking
39

Economics and Finance

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56
Citations
15202
World Ranking
998
National Ranking
22

Overview

Simon C. Parker is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada and specializes in areas intersecting business, management, and economics. Their research portfolio spans several main fields of study including Business, Management and Accounting; Social Sciences; and Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The subfields of study examined in Parker's work cover Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science, and Gender Studies. These research interests are tightly connected to a range of key topics such as Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Corporate Finance and Governance, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Firm Innovation and Growth, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Taxation and Compliance Studies, and Labor market dynamics and wage inequality.

Parker has contributed significantly to a collection of frequent publication venues, including:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Small Business Economics
  • Journal of Business Venturing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Academy of Management Discoveries

Their recent published papers, often in collaboration with other researchers, include:

  • "Entrepreneurship Bias and the Mass Media: Evidence from Big Data," 2020, Academy of Management Discoveries
  • "Explaining serial crowdfunders' dynamic fundraising performance," 2021, Journal of Business Venturing
  • "Diverse cognitive skills and team performance: A field experiment based on an entrepreneurship education program," 2020, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "Founder affiliations: jobseeker reactions and impact on employee recruitment by start-up ventures," 2022, Small Business Economics
  • "How are corporate ventures evaluated and selected?" 2020, Technovation

The frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Parker include Randolph Sloof, Mirjam van Praag, Theodor Vladasel, Abdulkader Kaakeh, and Silvia Carolina Reyes.

Best Publications

  • The Economics of Entrepreneurship

    Simon C. Parker

  • The Economics of Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship

    Simon C. Parker

  • The Economics of Entrepreneurship: What We Know and What We Don T

    Simon C. Parker

  • Gender and the business environment for new firm creation

    Leora F. Klapper;Simon C. Parker

  • What happens to gazelles? The importance of dynamic management strategy

    Simon C. Parker;David J. Storey;Arjen van Witteloostuijn

  • Intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship

    Simon C. Parker

  • Schooling, capital constraints, and entrepreneurial performance: The endogenous triangle

    Simon C Parker;C. Mirjam van Praag

  • A Time Series Model of Self-employment under Uncertainty

    Simon C. Parker

  • Explaining international variations in self-employment : evidence from a panel of OECD countries.

    Simon C. Parker;Martin T. Robson

  • Learning about the unknown: How fast do entrepreneurs adjust their beliefs?

    Simon C. Parker

  • What Happens to Nascent Entrepreneurs? An Econometric Analysis of the PSED

    Simon C. Parker;Yacine Belghitar

  • Why are some people more likely to become small-businesses owners than others: Entrepreneurship entry and industry-specific barriers

    Magnus Lofstrom;Timothy Bates;Simon C. Parker

  • Constraints, internationalization and growth: A cross-country analysis of European SMEs

    Jolanda Hessels;Simon C. Parker

  • Do serial entrepreneurs run successively better-performing businesses?

    Simon C. Parker

  • The entrepreneur's mode of entry: business takeover or new venture start?

    Simon C. Parker;C. Mirjam van Praag

  • Modelling Regional House Prices in the UK

    John Ashworth;Simon C. Parker

  • Spatial Variations in the Determinants and Effects of Firm Births and Deaths

    Peter Johnson;Simon Parker

  • The life cycle of entrepreneurial ventures

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  • The retirement behaviour of the self-employed in Britain

    Simon C. Parker;Jonathan C. Rougier

  • Why do small firms produce the entrepreneurs

    Simon C Parker

  • The Economics of Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship: Characteristics of entrepreneurs and the environment for entrepreneurship

    Simon C. Parker

Frequent Co-Authors

Mirjam van Praag
Mirjam van Praag Copenhagen Business School
Timothy Bates
Timothy Bates Wayne State University
Magnus Lofstrom
Magnus Lofstrom Public Policy Institute of California
Arjen van Witteloostuijn
Arjen van Witteloostuijn Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Roy Thurik
Roy Thurik Montpellier Business School
Sharon A. Alvarez
Sharon A. Alvarez University of Pittsburgh
David J. Storey
David J. Storey University of Sussex
Pontus Braunerhjelm
Pontus Braunerhjelm Royal Institute of Technology
André van Stel
André van Stel Kozminski University
Leora Klapper
Leora Klapper World Bank

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