Christopher Wickert

3.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
60 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Christopher Wickert is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Marketing. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Wickert has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Strategy and Management, 34 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and 16 papers in Marketing. Recurrent topics in Christopher Wickert's work include Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (35 papers), Management and Organizational Studies (29 papers) and Environmental Sustainability in Business (16 papers). Christopher Wickert is often cited by papers focused on Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (35 papers), Management and Organizational Studies (29 papers) and Environmental Sustainability in Business (16 papers). Christopher Wickert collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Christopher Wickert's co-authors include Laura J. Spence, Andreas Georg Scherer, Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, David Risi, Stephan Schaefer, Dennis Schoeneborn, Patrick Haack, Frank G. A. de Bakker, Corinne Post and Anselm Schneider and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of Management Studies.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Wickert

55 papers receiving 2.4k citations

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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.

Organizing Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Large Firms: Size Matters

2013 469 citations Christopher Wickert, Laura J. Spence et al. profile →
Walking and Talking Corporate Social Responsibility: Implications of Firm Size and Organizational Cost

2016 304 citations Christopher Wickert, Andreas Georg Scherer et al. Journal of Management Studies profile →
Embracing non‐Western Contexts in Management Scholarship

2024 43 citations Christopher Wickert, Kristina Potočnik et al. Journal of Management Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Wickert Netherlands	21	1.6k	813	808	318	316	60	2.5k
Daniel Arenas Spain	19	1.3k 0.8×	668 0.8×	480 0.6×	309 1.0×	195 0.6×	55	1.9k
Josep M. Lozano Spain	20	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	589 0.7×	287 0.9×	426 1.3×	54	2.6k
Yves Fassin Belgium	25	1.3k 0.8×	645 0.8×	553 0.7×	292 0.9×	403 1.3×	59	2.3k
Christian Voegtlin Switzerland	15	1.1k 0.7×	569 0.7×	741 0.9×	230 0.7×	339 1.1×	38	2.0k
Mehran Nejati Malaysia	25	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	480 0.6×	378 1.2×	201 0.6×	88	2.5k
Kate Kearins New Zealand	26	910 0.6×	726 0.9×	560 0.7×	298 0.9×	219 0.7×	60	2.1k
Jeff Frooman Canada	11	1.8k 1.2×	882 1.1×	718 0.9×	446 1.4×	332 1.1×	15	2.7k
Michelle Greenwood Australia	23	1.3k 0.8×	623 0.8×	975 1.2×	530 1.7×	447 1.4×	73	2.6k
Brendan Gray New Zealand	21	1.1k 0.7×	610 0.8×	790 1.0×	487 1.5×	311 1.0×	48	2.2k
Stelios C. Zyglidopoulos United Kingdom	26	1.4k 0.9×	682 0.8×	460 0.6×	513 1.6×	327 1.0×	68	2.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Muzio, Daniel & Christopher Wickert. (2025). Climate Change and the Politics of System‐Level Change: The Challenges of Moving beyond Incremental Transformation. Journal of Management Studies. 62(8). 3599–3607. 2 indexed citations

Markman, Gideon D., Christopher Wickert, Kristina Potočnik, et al.. (2025). Purposeful Management and the Public Good: Relationships, Tensions, and Consequences. Journal of Management Studies.

Wickert, Christopher. (2025). Capitalism Versus Socialism: Can (or Should) Management Scholars Embrace Varieties of Socio‐Economic Systems in a Multipolar World?. Journal of Management Studies. 1 indexed citations

Wickert, Christopher, et al.. (2025). Examining the financial slack–corporate social performance relationship across countries: The influence of formal institutions. Journal of International Management. 31(6). 101278–101278.

Wickert, Christopher. (2024). Prescriptive Theorizing to Tackle Societal Grand Challenges: Promises and Perils. Journal of Management Studies. 61(4). 1683–1691. 18 indexed citations

Gatrell, Caroline, Daniel Muzio, Corinne Post, & Christopher Wickert. (2024). Here, There and Everywhere: On the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Management Research and the Peer‐Review Process. Journal of Management Studies. 61(3). 739–751. 34 indexed citations

Wickert, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Towards a heuristic view of managerial heuristics: Integrating divergent perspectives. International Journal of Management Reviews. 27(1). 58–80. 2 indexed citations

Wickert, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Evaluating definitions of social entrepreneurship: A rulebook from the philosophy of science. International Journal of Management Reviews. 26(3). 384–409. 13 indexed citations

Wickert, Christopher, et al.. (2024). From seller to broker: When and how issue sellers engage with external stakeholders to sell issues inside organizations. Strategic Organization. 23(3). 520–547. 3 indexed citations

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Hahn, Rüdiger, Daniel Reimsbach, & Christopher Wickert. (2023). Nonfinancial Reporting and Real Sustainable Change: Relationship Status—It’s Complicated. Organization & Environment. 36(1). 3–16. 16 indexed citations

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Lysova, Evgenia I., et al.. (2022). Employee reactions to CSR in the pursuit of meaningful work: A case study of the healthcare industry. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 969839–969839. 3 indexed citations

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Risi, David, Christopher Wickert, & Tommaso Ramus. (2022). Coordinated Enactment: How Organizational Departments Work Together to Implement CSR. Business & Society. 62(4). 745–786. 17 indexed citations

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Kourula, Arno, et al.. (2019). New Roles of Government in the Governance of Business Conduct: Implications for Management and Organizational Research. Organization Studies. 40(8). 1101–1123. 89 indexed citations

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Wickert, Christopher & Frank G. A. de Bakker. (2018). Pitching for Social Change: Towards a Relational Approach to Selling and Buying Social Issues. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Hahn, Rüdiger, Christoph Endenich, Daniel Reimsbach, & Christopher Wickert. (2018). What explains the “dormant” stage of management ideas: The case of integrated reporting. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2018(1). 11762–11762. 3 indexed citations

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Wickert, Christopher, Antonino Vaccaro, & Joep Cornelissen. (2017). “Buying” Corporate Social Responsibility: Organisational Identity Orientation as a Determinant of Practice Adoption. Deposito Adademico Digital Universidad De Navarra (University of Navarra).

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Risi, David & Christopher Wickert. (2016). Reconsidering the ‘Symmetry’ Between Institutionalization and Professionalization: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Managers. Journal of Management Studies. 54(5). 613–646. 83 indexed citations

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Wickert, Christopher. (2014). “Political” Corporate Social Responsibility in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Business & Society. 55(6). 792–824. 83 indexed citations

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Wickert, Christopher, Andreas Georg Scherer, & Laura J. Spence. (2014). Implementing and communicating corporate social responsibility: Implications of firm size and organizational cost. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 3 indexed citations

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Wickert, Christopher. (2010). Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises as Private Actors in Global Governance – Evidence from the Textile Industry. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1 indexed citations

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