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Business and Management
UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
60
Citations
13870
World Ranking
549
National Ranking
81

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Stephen Roper is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, alongside Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these broad areas, they focus extensively on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including Firm Innovation and Growth, Innovation Policy and R&D, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Corporate Finance and Governance, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment, as well as Global Trade and Economics.

Stephen Roper has published in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include the SSRN Electronic Journal, Small Business Economics, Academy of Management Proceedings, International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship, and Research Policy.

Key recent papers by Stephen Roper include:

  • R&D and innovation after COVID-19: What can we expect? A review of prior research and data trends after the great financial crisis (2020, International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship)
  • Export status and SME productivity: Learning-to-export versus learning-by-exporting (2021, Journal of Business Research)
  • Estimating the innovation benefits of first-mover and second-mover strategies when micro-businesses adopt artificial intelligence and machine learning (2023, Small Business Economics)
  • Small firms and patenting revisited (2020, Small Business Economics)
  • Do Digital Technologies Enable Firms that Prioritize Sustainability Goals to Innovate? Empirical Evidence from Established UK Micro-businesses (2024, British Journal of Management)

Stephen Roper's frequent coauthors include James H. Love, Kevin Mole, Ully Yunita Nafizah, Halima Jibril, and Effie Kesidou. The collaboration with these researchers reflects activity in related domains of innovation, entrepreneurship, and management studies.

Best Publications

  • Modelling the innovation value chain

    Stephen Roper;Jun Du;James H. Love

  • SME innovation, exporting and growth: A review of existing evidence

    James H Love;Stephen Roper

  • Innovation and export performance: evidence from the UK and German manufacturing plants

    Stephen Roper;James H. Love

  • The Determinants of Innovation: R&D, Technology Transfer and Networking Effects

    James H. Love;Stephen Roper

  • Location and network effects on innovation success: evidence for UK, German and Irish manufacturing plants

    James H. Love;Stephen Roper

  • Learning from openness: The dynamics of breadth in external innovation linkages

    James H. Love;Stephen Roper;Priit Vahter

  • Openness, knowledge, innovation and growth in UK business services

    James H. Love;Stephen Roper;John R. Bryson

  • Product Innovation and Small Business Growth: A Comparison of the Strategies of German, U.K. and Irish Companies

    Stephen Roper

  • Experience, age and exporting performance in UK SMEs

    James H. Love;Stephen Roper;Ying Zhou

  • Firms’ knowledge search and local knowledge externalities in innovation performance

    Stephen Roper;James H. Love;Karen Bonner

  • Perceived Financial Barriers and the Start-up Decision An Econometric Analysis of Gender Differences Using GEM Data

    Stephen Roper;Jonathan M. Scott

  • Modelling Small Business Growth and Profitability

    Stephen Roper

  • Organizing innovation: Complementarities between cross-functional teams

    James H. Love;Stephen Roper

  • Knowledge stocks, knowledge flows and innovation: Evidence from matched patents and innovation panel data

    Stephen Roper;Nola Hewitt-Dundas;Nola Hewitt-Dundas

  • Innovation, ownership and profitability

    James H. Love;Stephen Roper;Jun Du

  • Innovation persistence: Survey and case-study evidence

    Stephen Roper;Nola Hewitt-Dundas

  • Taking risks in the face of uncertainty: An exploratory analysis of green innovation

    Stephen Roper;Efstathios Tapinos

  • "The Golden Thread of Innovation' and Northern Ireland's Evolving Regional Innovation System

    Philip Cooke;Stephen Roper;Peter Wylie

  • An Ex Ante Evaluation Framework for the Regional Benefits of Publicly Supported R&D Projects

    Stephen Roper;Nola Hewitt-Dundas;James H. Love

  • Externalities of openness in innovation

    Stephen Roper;Priit Vahter;James H. Love

  • The innovation value chain

    Stephen Roper;Jun Du;James H. Love

Frequent Co-Authors

James H. Love
James H. Love University of Leeds
Mark Hart
Mark Hart Aston University
Nigel Driffield
Nigel Driffield University of Warwick
John S. Edwards
John S. Edwards Aston University
Philip Shapira
Philip Shapira University of Manchester
Sara Carter
Sara Carter University of Glasgow
Richard Harris
Richard Harris University of Bristol
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Mei-Po Kwan
Mei-Po Kwan Chinese University of Hong Kong
Robert Hassink
Robert Hassink Kiel University

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