Bill Cooke

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Bill Cooke is a scholar working on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Bill Cooke has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Bill Cooke's work include Management and Organizational Studies (15 papers), Management Theory and Practice (9 papers) and International Development and Aid (5 papers). Bill Cooke is often cited by papers focused on Management and Organizational Studies (15 papers), Management Theory and Practice (9 papers) and International Development and Aid (5 papers). Bill Cooke collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Brazil. Bill Cooke's co-authors include Uma Kothari, Bernard Burnes, Frances Cleaver, Albert J. Mills, Sadhvi Dar, Rafael Alcadipani, Scott Taylor, Emma Bell, Thomaz Wood and Nic Beech and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Management Studies and Human Relations.

In The Last Decade

Bill Cooke

49 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

Participation: the New Tyranny? 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Participation: the New Tyranny?
    2001 3.1k citations Bill Cooke, Uma Kothari Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bill Cooke United Kingdom 21 2.2k 890 770 704 566 53 5.2k
John Gaventa United Kingdom 29 2.3k 1.1× 1.2k 1.3× 359 0.5× 210 0.3× 745 1.3× 73 5.3k
Katherine Gibson Australia 37 3.7k 1.7× 991 1.1× 496 0.6× 392 0.6× 730 1.3× 109 7.9k
Deepa Narayan United States 22 3.6k 1.6× 609 0.7× 298 0.4× 243 0.3× 880 1.6× 51 6.4k
Michael Woolcock United States 30 5.6k 2.6× 1.3k 1.4× 428 0.6× 456 0.6× 1.2k 2.2× 105 10.2k
Geoffrey McNicoll United States 37 2.5k 1.1× 944 1.1× 452 0.6× 363 0.5× 640 1.1× 162 7.3k
Andréa Cornwall United Kingdom 43 4.0k 1.8× 1.4k 1.5× 588 0.8× 267 0.4× 1.7k 3.0× 110 9.1k
Eva Sørensen Denmark 36 2.0k 0.9× 2.5k 2.8× 674 0.9× 615 0.9× 457 0.8× 157 7.0k
Jacob Torfing Denmark 45 2.8k 1.3× 3.3k 3.7× 761 1.0× 782 1.1× 725 1.3× 168 9.2k
Uma Kothari United Kingdom 25 2.9k 1.3× 999 1.1× 823 1.1× 100 0.1× 603 1.1× 72 5.6k
Jon Pierre Sweden 35 2.4k 1.1× 3.9k 4.4× 796 1.0× 396 0.6× 448 0.8× 132 8.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bill Cooke

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bill Cooke

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bill Cooke. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bill Cooke 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 Bill Cooke. Bill Cooke is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cooke, Bill, et al.. (2022). Management’s collusion in poverty? Archetypes, conceits, and performative neophytism. Organization. 31(2). 402–411. 1 indexed citations
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MacIntosh, Robert, Nic Beech, Jean M. Bartunek, et al.. (2017). Impact and Management Research: Exploring Relationships between Temporality, Dialogue, Reflexivity and Praxis. British Journal of Management. 28(1). 3–13. 65 indexed citations
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Cooke, Bill. (2014). Can We Afford to be “Post-Secular?”. 21(1). 93–103. 1 indexed citations
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Burnes, Bernard & Bill Cooke. (2012). Review Article: The past, present and future of organization development: Taking the long view. Human Relations. 65(11). 1395–1429. 81 indexed citations
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Taylor, Scott, Emma Bell, & Bill Cooke. (2009). Business history and the historiographical operation. Management & Organizational History. 4(2). 151–166. 41 indexed citations
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Cooke, Bill. (2009). The Tavistock’s everyday use of benzedrine, and more: On the multiple significances of DB, scholar–publisher. Management & Organizational History. 4(2). 203–206. 3 indexed citations
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Cooke, Bill. (2007). The Kurt Lewin–Goodwin Watson FBI/CIA files. Human Relations. 60(3). 435–462. 12 indexed citations
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Cooke, Bill. (2006). The Cold War origin of action research as managerialist cooptation. Human Relations. 59(5). 665–693. 41 indexed citations
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Cooke, Bill, et al.. (2005). The Fundamentals of Action Research, Volume 3: Social Change Applications, the Practitioner, and Action Research Knowledge (Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Series). Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 2 indexed citations
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Cooke, Bill. (2004). O GERENCIAMENTO DO (TERCEIRO) MUNDO. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9 indexed citations
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Mills, Albert J., et al.. (2002). Management theory in context: exploring the influence of the Cold War. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 11 indexed citations
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Cooke, Bill, et al.. (2001). The case for participation as tyranny. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 9. 187–187. 233 indexed citations
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Cooke, Bill & Uma Kothari. (2001). Participation: the New Tyranny?. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 3100 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kothari, Uma & Bill Cooke. (2001). Participatory Development: Power, Knowledge and Social Control. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 5 indexed citations
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Kothari, Uma & Bill Cooke. (2001). Power, knowledge and social control in participatory development.. 139–152. 267 indexed citations
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Cooke, Bill. (1999). The social psychological limits of participation. OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique). 51 indexed citations
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Cooke, Bill. (1998). Participation, ‘process’ and management: lessons for development in the history of organization development. Journal of International Development. 10(1). 35–54. 24 indexed citations
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Cooke, Bill. (1997). From process consultation to a clinical model of development practice. Public Administration and Development. 17(3). 325–340. 1 indexed citations
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Cooke, Bill. (1997). From process consultation to a clinical model of development practice. Public Administration and Development. 17(3). 325–340. 15 indexed citations
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Cooke, Bill. (1997). The deceptive illusion of multi-paradigm development practice. Public Administration and Development. 17(5). 479–486. 7 indexed citations

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