Christopher Williams

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Christopher Williams is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Accounting and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Williams has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Strategy and Management, 16 papers in Accounting and 9 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Christopher Williams's work include International Business and FDI (23 papers), Innovation and Knowledge Management (17 papers) and Corporate Finance and Governance (14 papers). Christopher Williams is often cited by papers focused on International Business and FDI (23 papers), Innovation and Knowledge Management (17 papers) and Corporate Finance and Governance (14 papers). Christopher Williams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Canada. Christopher Williams's co-authors include Soo Hee Lee, Suk Bong Choi, Sander van Triest, Nathalie Spielmann, Candace A. Martinez, Ana Colovic, Susanne Durst, Dylan Sutherland, Xinwei Shi and Ke Rong and has published in prestigious journals such as Research Policy, Journal of Business Research and Journal of Management Studies.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Williams

39 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Ownership and firm innovation in a transition economy: Evidence from China

2011 426 citations Suk Bong Choi, Soo Hee Lee et al. Research Policy profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Williams United Kingdom	20	672	363	344	323	210	40	1.2k
Samina Karim United States	16	1.2k 1.7×	419 1.2×	426 1.2×	335 1.0×	218 1.0×	39	1.6k
David Souder United States	11	778 1.2×	524 1.4×	218 0.6×	312 1.0×	337 1.6×	17	1.3k
Vladislav Maksimov United States	13	796 1.2×	274 0.8×	179 0.5×	286 0.9×	249 1.2×	23	1.1k
Yuri Mishina United States	6	587 0.9×	392 1.1×	188 0.5×	177 0.5×	206 1.0×	12	986
Simon Collinson United Kingdom	20	878 1.3×	198 0.5×	241 0.7×	184 0.6×	224 1.1×	42	1.2k
Patricia M. Norman United States	11	701 1.0×	201 0.6×	365 1.1×	235 0.7×	184 0.9×	18	1.2k
Svetla Trifonova Marinova Denmark	16	786 1.2×	273 0.8×	180 0.5×	184 0.6×	224 1.1×	65	1.1k
Jacob Lyngsie Denmark	10	586 0.9×	191 0.5×	148 0.4×	377 1.2×	224 1.1×	12	982
Ji‐Yub Kim United States	10	812 1.2×	660 1.8×	302 0.9×	207 0.6×	279 1.3×	13	1.4k
Yong Kyu Lew South Korea	23	1.1k 1.7×	289 0.8×	205 0.6×	351 1.1×	253 1.2×	51	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Williams

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Williams

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Williams

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shi, Xinwei, Christopher Williams, Dylan Sutherland, & Ke Rong. (2021). Patent- and trademark-seeking outward foreign direct investment by Chinese firms: The role of business group affiliation. Industrial and Corporate Change. 31(3). 838–862. 1 indexed citations

Shi, Xinwei, Dylan Sutherland, Christopher Williams, & Ke Rong. (2021). Chinese MNE acquisition of unrelated foreign businesses: The role of diversified business group affiliation, private ownership and strategic asset seeking. Journal of Business Research. 129. 145–156. 21 indexed citations

Williams, Christopher & Sander van Triest. (2021). Innovativeness in the Professional Services Industry: A Practice Level Analysis. European Management Review. 18(3). 263–276. 3 indexed citations

Williams, Christopher & Jacqueline Jing You. (2018). Building Resilience in Client Organisations: The Consultant’s Challenge. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 1(2). 28–37. 2 indexed citations

Williams, Christopher & Susanne Durst. (2018). Exploring the transition phase in offshore outsourcing: Decision making amidst knowledge at risk. Journal of Business Research. 103. 460–471. 17 indexed citations

Williams, Christopher, et al.. (2016). Startups and Unmet Legal Needs. Utah law review. 2016(4). 575.

Choi, Suk Bong & Christopher Williams. (2016). Entrepreneurial orientation and performance: mediating effects of technology and marketing action across industry types. Industry and Innovation. 23(8). 673–693. 35 indexed citations

Spielmann, Nathalie & Christopher Williams. (2016). It goes with the territory: Communal leverage as a marketing resource. Journal of Business Research. 69(12). 5636–5643. 19 indexed citations

Williams, Christopher & Sander van Triest. (2016). PRODUCT LAUNCH PERFORMANCE IN HI-TECH SMEs: NEWNESS TO THE FIRM AND THE ROLE OF MANAGEMENT CONTROLS. International Journal of Innovation Management. 21(3). 1750022–1750022. 3 indexed citations

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Williams, Christopher, et al.. (2016). The moderating effect of bilateral investment treaty stringency on the relationship between political instability and subsidiary ownership choice. International Business Review. 26(1). 1–11. 23 indexed citations

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Choi, Suk Bong, Soo Hee Lee, & Christopher Williams. (2011). Ownership and firm innovation in a transition economy: Evidence from China. Research Policy. 40(3). 441–452. 426 indexed citations breakdown →

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Williams, Christopher, et al.. (2011). R&D subsidiary embedment: a resource dependence perspective. Critical Perspectives on International Business. 7(4). 297–325. 7 indexed citations

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Williams, Christopher & Soo Hee Lee. (2010). Political Heterarchy and Dispersed Entrepreneurship in the MNC. Journal of Management Studies. 48(6). 1243–1268. 31 indexed citations

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Williams, Christopher. (2010). Client-vendor knowledge transfer in IS offshore outsourcing: insights from a survey of Indian software engineers. Information Systems Journal. 21(4). 335–356. 38 indexed citations

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Williams, Christopher & Soo Hee Lee. (2009). Resource allocations, knowledge network characteristics and entrepreneurial orientation of multinational corporations. Research Policy. 38(8). 1376–1387. 66 indexed citations

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Williams, Christopher & Soo Hee Lee. (2009). Exploring the internal and external venturing of large R&D‐intensive firms. R and D Management. 39(3). 231–246. 21 indexed citations

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Williams, Christopher, et al.. (2009). R&D subsidiary isolation in knowledge‐intensive industries: evidence from Austria. R and D Management. 39(2). 111–123. 22 indexed citations

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Williams, Christopher & Sander van Triest. (2009). The impact of corporate and national cultures on decentralization in multinational corporations. International Business Review. 18(2). 156–167. 50 indexed citations

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Lee, Soo Hee & Christopher Williams. (2007). Institutional Foundations of Entrepreneurship: An Introduction and Cross-country Comparisons. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics. 18(2-3). 113–121. 2 indexed citations

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Williams, Christopher. (2003). Global Leadership, Education, and Human Survival. World Futures. 59(3-4). 301–313. 6 indexed citations

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