2026 William B. Gartner: 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	60	517	482	230	211	234	40508

William B. Gartner 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 William B. Gartner sits on this spectrum.

35 publications 436+

This scientist: 234 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William B. Gartner 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 William B. Gartner sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

William B. Gartner is affiliated with Babson College in the United States, contributing to the field of Business, Management, and Accounting with a particular focus on entrepreneurship and organizational studies.

Their research spans multiple subfields, including Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Accounting, Sociology and Political Science, and Education. This interdisciplinary approach supports an extensive examination of business phenomena from various perspectives.

Key topics in William B. Gartner's work include:

Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
Family Business Performance and Succession
Private Equity and Venture Capital
Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Human Resource and Talent Management
Higher Education and Employability
Innovation and Socioeconomic Development

Their recent papers highlight contributions to understanding entrepreneurship through different lenses. Notable publications include:

"Context, time, and change: Historical approaches to entrepreneurship research" (2020) in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
"Entrepreneurship-as-practice: grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies" (2020) in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
"'Who is an entrepreneur?' is (still) the wrong question" (2020) in Journal of Business Venturing Insights
"In search of creative qualitative methods to capture current entrepreneurship research challenges" (2021) in Journal of Small Business Management
"Legacy in Family Business: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda" (2024) in Family Business Review

William B. Gartner frequently collaborates with other researchers closely linked to their field. Important coauthors include Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Bruce T. Teague, Raja Singaram, Angela Randolph, and Christina Lubinski.

Their works are often published in venues with a focus on entrepreneurship and management, such as:

Academy of Management Proceedings
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
Family Business Review
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Best Publications

A Conceptual Framework for Describing the Phenomenon of New Venture Creation

William B. Gartner

5492
Citations
“Who Is an Entrepreneur?” Is the Wrong Question:

William B. Gartner

5143
Citations
Arriving at the high growth firm

Frédéric Delmar;Per Davidsson;William B. Gartner

2439
Citations
Properties of Emerging Organizations

Jerome Katz;William B. Gartner

2202
Citations
The career reasons of nascent entrepreneurs

Nancy M Carter;William B Gartner;Kelly G Shaver;Elizabeth J Gatewood

1717
Citations
Exploring start-up event sequences

Nancy M. Carter;William B. Gartner;Paul D. Reynolds

1642
Citations
What are we talking about when we talk about entrepreneurship

William B. Gartner

1635
Citations
Acting as If: Differentiating Entrepreneurial from Organizational Behavior:

William B. Gartner;Barbara J. Bird;Jennifer A. Starr

1213
Citations
A longitudinal study of cognitive factors influencing start-up behaviors and success at venture creation

Elizabeth J. Gatewood;Kelly G. Shaver;William B. Gartner

1148
Citations
A profile of new venture success and failure in an emerging industry

Donald A. Duchesneau;William B. Gartner

1103
Citations
Measuring progress in entrepreneurship education

Karl H. Vesper;William B. Gartner

1088
Citations
Some Suggestions for Research on Entrepreneurial Traits and Characteristics

William B. Gartner

1023
Citations
Is There an Elephant in Entrepreneurship? Blind Assumptions in Theory Development

William B. Gartner

961
Citations
Everyday Entrepreneurship—A Call for Entrepreneurship Research to Embrace Entrepreneurial Diversity:

Friederike Welter;Ted Baker;David B. Audretsch;William B. Gartner

876
Citations
Finding the Entrepreneur in Entrepreneurship

William B. Gartner;Kelly G. Shaver;Elizabeth Gatewood;Jerome A. Katz

681
Citations
Experiments in entrepreneurship education: Successes and failures

William B. Gartner;Karl H. Vesper

610
Citations
The Prevalence of Nascent Entrepreneurs in the United States: Evidence from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics

Paul D. Reynolds;Nancy M. Carter;William B. Gartner;Patricia G. Greene

605
Citations
Complexity dynamics of nascent entrepreneurship

Benyamin B. Lichtenstein;Nancy M. Carter;Kevin J. Dooley;William B. Gartner

571
Citations
Entrepreneurial Expectancy, Task Effort, and Performance*

Elizabeth J. Gatewood;Kelly G. Shaver;Joshua B. Powers;William B. Gartner

517
Citations
Handbook of entrepreneurial dynamics : the process of business creation

William B. Gartner;William B. Gartner

516
Citations
Acting As If: Differentiating Entrepreneurial From Organizational Behavior: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner

William B. Gartner;Barbara J. Bird;Jennifer A. Starr

24
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. Reynolds Aston University

Nancy M. Carter University of St. Thomas - Minnesota

Jerome A. Katz Saint Louis University

Friederike Welter University of Siegen

Daniel Hjorth Copenhagen Business School

Patricia G. Greene Babson College

Per Davidsson Jönköping University

Stefano Pascucci University of Exeter

Shaker A. Zahra University of Minnesota

Hans Landström Lund University

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