Antony Upward

848 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 553 citations indexed

About

Antony Upward is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Antony Upward has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 553 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Strategy and Management, 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Antony Upward's work include Complex Systems and Decision Making (3 papers), Sustainable Supply Chain Management (3 papers) and Service and Product Innovation (2 papers). Antony Upward is often cited by papers focused on Complex Systems and Decision Making (3 papers), Sustainable Supply Chain Management (3 papers) and Service and Product Innovation (2 papers). Antony Upward collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Sweden and Mexico. Antony Upward's co-authors include Peter Jones, Elizabeth Kurucz, Barry A. Colbert, Florian Lüdeke‐Freund, Niklas Karlsson, Maya Hoveskog, Marie Mattßon, Fawzi Halila, Theo Kötter and Manuel Riemer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Organization & Environment and Journal of Global Responsibility.

In The Last Decade

Antony Upward

5 papers receiving 529 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

An Ontology for Strongly Sustainable Business Models

2015 338 citations Antony Upward, Peter Jones Organization & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Antony Upward Canada	5	336	300	126	68	62	7	553
Thijs Geradts Netherlands	6	368 1.1×	242 0.8×	133 1.1×	46 0.7×	111 1.8×	9	545
Fawzi Halila Sweden	15	407 1.2×	344 1.1×	75 0.6×	42 0.6×	95 1.5×	27	651
Herman Stål Sweden	11	389 1.2×	336 1.1×	101 0.8×	91 1.3×	52 0.8×	21	584
Flávio Hourneaux Brazil	11	409 1.2×	292 1.0×	78 0.6×	91 1.3×	44 0.7×	55	685
Edurne A. Iñigo Spain	7	410 1.2×	290 1.0×	139 1.1×	63 0.9×	95 1.5×	10	585
Nathalia Suchek Portugal	7	373 1.1×	276 0.9×	158 1.3×	94 1.4×	101 1.6×	8	568
Arthur Marcon Brazil	15	260 0.8×	334 1.1×	56 0.4×	61 0.9×	111 1.8×	21	650
Ilka Weissbrod Germany	9	447 1.3×	306 1.0×	128 1.0×	93 1.4×	67 1.1×	12	600
Pietro Previtali Italy	12	310 0.9×	166 0.6×	96 0.8×	78 1.1×	38 0.6×	32	538
Marília Bonzanini Bossle Brazil	11	528 1.6×	519 1.7×	136 1.1×	32 0.5×	72 1.2×	29	932

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Antony Upward

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Antony Upward. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Antony Upward based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Antony Upward. Antony Upward is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Riemer, Manuel, Pourya Salehi, David Corbett, et al.. (2025). Systemic Management Practices—Enabling Local Governments to Adapt in Response to Complexity. World. 6(2). 72–72.

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Hoveskog, Maya, et al.. (2025). Lean Startup Supporting Sustainability-as-Flourishing during the Early Stages of Enterprise Development. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 13(1). 47–88.

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Hoveskog, Maya, Fawzi Halila, Marie Mattßon, Antony Upward, & Niklas Karlsson. (2017). Education for Sustainable Development: Business modelling for flourishing. Journal of Cleaner Production. 172. 4383–4396. 41 indexed citations

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Kurucz, Elizabeth, et al.. (2016). Relational leadership for strategic sustainability: practices and capabilities to advance the design and assessment of sustainable business models. Journal of Cleaner Production. 140. 189–204. 136 indexed citations

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Upward, Antony, et al.. (2016). Leadership as enabling function for flourishing by design. Journal of Global Responsibility. 7(1). 126–144. 23 indexed citations

6.

Upward, Antony & Peter Jones. (2015). An Ontology for Strongly Sustainable Business Models. Organization & Environment. 29(1). 97–123. 338 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jones, Peter & Antony Upward. (2014). Caring for the future: The systemic design of flourishing enterprises. 15 indexed citations

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