Charles E. Eesley

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
79 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Charles E. Eesley is a scholar working on Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles E. Eesley has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation, 41 papers in Accounting and 21 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Charles E. Eesley's work include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (49 papers), Private Equity and Venture Capital (32 papers) and Corporate Finance and Governance (21 papers). Charles E. Eesley is often cited by papers focused on Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (49 papers), Private Equity and Venture Capital (32 papers) and Corporate Finance and Governance (21 papers). Charles E. Eesley collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Charles E. Eesley's co-authors include Michael Lenox, Edward B. Roberts, David H. Hsu, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Richard S.E. Keefe, Margaret P. Poe, Daniel Erian Armanios, Jizhen Li, Robert Eberhart and Yanbo Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Strategic Management Journal and Administrative Science Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Charles E. Eesley

73 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Firm responses to secondary stakeholder action

2006 561 citations Charles E. Eesley, Michael Lenox Strategic Management Journal profile →
How entrepreneurs leverage institutional intermediaries in emerging economies to acquire public resources

2016 253 citations Daniel Erian Armanios, Charles E. Eesley et al. Strategic Management Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charles E. Eesley United States	23	1.2k	1.1k	816	539	507	79	2.9k
Christophe Boone Belgium	35	623 0.5×	1.3k 1.2×	966 1.2×	949 1.8×	602 1.2×	127	4.8k
María Concepción López Fernández Spain	26	592 0.5×	596 0.5×	328 0.4×	648 1.2×	205 0.4×	87	2.0k
Louis Marino United States	26	2.4k 2.0×	1.3k 1.2×	885 1.1×	1.4k 2.6×	589 1.2×	49	3.7k
Mark S. Schwartz Canada	24	417 0.3×	1.9k 1.7×	611 0.7×	919 1.7×	828 1.6×	85	4.5k
Richard J. Arend United States	22	668 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	349 0.4×	393 0.7×	297 0.6×	86	2.8k
Ingrid Verheul Netherlands	28	2.7k 2.2×	394 0.4×	756 0.9×	1.3k 2.4×	1.1k 2.1×	69	3.7k
I. C. MacMillan United Kingdom	15	466 0.4×	793 0.7×	327 0.4×	415 0.8×	324 0.6×	27	1.9k
Susan Freeman Australia	27	495 0.4×	1.8k 1.6×	401 0.5×	701 1.3×	244 0.5×	81	2.5k
Dimo Dimov United Kingdom	36	4.2k 3.4×	1.5k 1.3×	1.9k 2.4×	1.9k 3.5×	723 1.4×	95	6.2k
Yan Ling United States	11	861 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	470 0.6×	817 1.5×	217 0.4×	21	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Charles E. Eesley

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Eesley, Charles E. & Elizabeth M. Gerber. (2025). CROSSROADS—Designing Institutions for Applied Impact: Lessons from Engineering for Organizational Research. Organization Science. 36(5). 2044–2051. 2 indexed citations

Eesley, Charles E., et al.. (2023). Impacts of Accelerator Cohort Composition on Startup Performance. 18. 1–10. 1 indexed citations

Armanios, Daniel Erian & Charles E. Eesley. (2021). How Do Institutional Carriers Alleviate Normative and Cognitive Barriers to Regulatory Change?. Organization Science. 32(6). 1415–1438. 31 indexed citations

Eesley, Charles E., et al.. (2020). Entrepreneurship in Dynamic Environments: A Comparison Between the U.S. and China. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

Eesley, Charles E. & Lynn Wu. (2020). For Startups, Adaptability and Mentor Network Diversity Can be Pivotal: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on a MOOC Platform. MIS Quarterly. 44(2). 661–698. 28 indexed citations

Eesley, Charles E. & Yong Suk Lee. (2020). Do university entrepreneurship programs promote entrepreneurship?. Strategic Management Journal. 42(4). 833–861. 74 indexed citations

Eesley, Charles E., et al.. (2019). Born into Chaos: the Role of the Founding Environment and the Performance Impacts of Founding Team Composition. 1 indexed citations

Eesley, Charles E. & William Miller. (2018). Impact: Stanford University’s Economic Impact via Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 14(2). 130–278. 4 indexed citations

Eesley, Charles E.. (2018). Alumni Surveys as a Data Collection Methodology. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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Lee, Yong Suk & Charles E. Eesley. (2018). The persistence of entrepreneurship and innovative immigrants. Research Policy. 47(6). 1032–1044. 33 indexed citations

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Eberhart, Robert & Charles E. Eesley. (2017). New Growth Markets: Supportive Intermediaries and Entrepreneurship. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Armanios, Daniel Erian, Charles E. Eesley, Jizhen Li, & Kathleen M. Eisenhardt. (2016). How entrepreneurs leverage institutional intermediaries in emerging economies to acquire public resources. Strategic Management Journal. 38(7). 1373–1390. 253 indexed citations breakdown →

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Eesley, Charles E.. (2016). Institutional Barriers to Growth: Entrepreneurship, Human Capital and Institutional Change. Organization Science. 27(5). 1290–1306. 92 indexed citations

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Eesley, Charles E., Katherine A. DeCelles, & Michael Lenox. (2015). Through the mud or in the boardroom: Examining activist types and their strategies in targeting firms for social change. Strategic Management Journal. 37(12). 2425–2440. 87 indexed citations

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Eberhart, Robert, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, & Charles E. Eesley. (2014). INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND VENTURE EXIT: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Eesley, Charles E.. (2013). Entrepreneurship and China: History of Policy Reforms and Institutional Development. 8 indexed citations

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Roberts, Edward B. & Charles E. Eesley. (2011). Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 7(1-2). 1–149. 46 indexed citations

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Roberts, Edward B. & Charles E. Eesley. (2011). Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT — An Updated Report. SSRN Electronic Journal. 27 indexed citations

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Eesley, Charles E. & Michael Lenox. (2006). Firm Responses to Secondary Stakeholder Action. SSRN Electronic Journal. 21 indexed citations

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Keefe, Richard S.E., Charles E. Eesley, & Margaret P. Poe. (2005). Defining a cognitive function decrement in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry. 57(6). 688–691. 268 indexed citations

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