2026 Vladislav Valentinov: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	34	3148	2859	111	105	138	3742

Overview

Vladislav Valentinov is affiliated with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Their research predominantly falls within the broad area of Business, Management and Accounting, with particular focus on several subfields including Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The main topics of their scholarly work cover a range of issues in management and organizational studies. Their research interests include:

Management and Organizational Studies
Complex Systems and Decision Making
Environmental Sustainability in Business
Economic Theory and Institutions
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Ethics in Business and Education

Valentinov's recent publications illustrate their engagement with both theoretical and applied aspects of business ethics and organizational governance. Notable papers include:

"Food Safety and Value Chain Coordination in the Context of a Transition Economy: The Role of Agricultural Cooperatives," 2021, published in International Journal of the Commons
"Stakeholder theory: A process-ontological perspective," 2022, published in Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility
"Adaptive governance: learning from what organizations do and managing the role they play," 2021, published in Kybernetes
"East of nature. Accounting for the environments of social sciences," 2020, published in Ecological Economics
"Stakeholder governance to facilitate collaboration for a systemic circular economy transition: A qualitative study in the European chemicals and plastics industry," 2023, published in Business Strategy and the Environment

Frequent collaborators in Valentinov's research include Steffen Roth, Michal Plaček, Ingo Pies, František Ochrana, and Felix Carl Schultz, demonstrating a collaborative approach to multi-author studies.

Their work is often published in specific academic venues, with repeated contributions to:

Systems Research and Behavioral Science
Journal of Business Ethics
Kybernetes
Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility
Journal of Industrial Ecology

Best Publications

Why are cooperatives important in agriculture? An organizational economics perspective

Vladislav Valentinov

427
Citations
The effect of cooperative membership on agricultural technology adoption in Sichuan, China

Shemei Zhang;Zhanli Sun;Wanglin Ma;Vladislav Valentinov

204
Citations
The Complexity–Sustainability Trade‐Off in Niklas Luhmann's Social Systems Theory

Vladislav Valentinov

199
Citations
Toward a Social Capital Theory of Cooperative Organisation

Vladislav L. Valentinov

126
Citations
The Commercialization of the Nonprofit Sector: A General Systems Theory Perspective

Lioudmila Moeller;Vladislav Valentinov

89
Citations
The Economics of Nonprofit Organization: In Search of an Integrative Theory

Vladislav Valentinov

83
Citations
Nonprofit organizations, institutional economics, and systems thinking

Vladislav Valentinov;Stefan Hielscher;Ingo Pies

80
Citations
Economic Theories of Nonprofits and Agricultural Cooperatives Compared: New Perspectives for Nonprofit Scholars

Vladislav Valentinov;Constantine Iliopoulos

80
Citations
THE ECONOMICS OF THE NON‐DISTRIBUTION CONSTRAINT: A CRITICAL REAPPRAISAL

Vladislav Valentinov

79
Citations
The neglect of society in the theory of the firm: a systems-theory perspective

Spencer Thompson;Vladislav Valentinov

77
Citations
Accountability and the Public Interest in the Nonprofit Sector: A Conceptual Framework

Vladislav Valentinov

74
Citations
The Meaning of Nonprofit Organization: Insights from Classical Institutionalism

Vladislav Valentinov

74
Citations
The Property Rights Approach to Nonprofit Organization: The Role of Intrinsic Motivation

Vladislav Valentinov

66
Citations
CSR as hypocrisy avoidance: a conceptual framework

Johanna Jauernig;Vladislav Valentinov

57
Citations
CSR Beyond Economy and Society : A Post-capitalist Approach

Steffen Roth;Vladislav Valentinov;Markus Heidingsfelder;Miguel Pérez-Valls

56
Citations
From Nonprofit Diversity to Organizational Multifunctionality: A Systems–Theoretical Proposal

Matthias Georg Will;Steffen Roth;Vladislav Valentinov;Vladislav Valentinov

55
Citations
K. William Kapp's theory of social costs: A Luhmannian interpretation

Vladislav Valentinov

53
Citations
The moral complexity of agriculture: A challenge for corporate social responsibility

Evelien M. de Olde;Vladislav Valentinov

49
Citations
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability: insights from Boulding and Luhmann

Vladislav Valentinov

45
Citations
Multifunctional organisation models: A systems – theoretical framework for new venture discovery and creation

Steffen Roth;Vladislav Valentinov;Jari Kaivo-oja;Léo-Paul Dana

37
Citations
Institutional Economics and Social Dilemmas: a Systems Theory Perspective

Vladislav Valentinov;Lioudmila Chatalova

27
Citations
The Role of Agriculture in Central and Eastern European Rural Development: Engine of Change or Social Buffer?

Heinz Ahrens;Borbala Balint;Grigore Baltag;Irina V. Bezlepkina

11
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wanglin Ma Lincoln University

External Links

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