Clive Lawson

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Clive Lawson is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Management of Technology and Innovation and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Clive Lawson has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation and 5 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Clive Lawson's work include Innovation and Knowledge Management (5 papers), Economic Theory and Institutions (5 papers) and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (4 papers). Clive Lawson is often cited by papers focused on Innovation and Knowledge Management (5 papers), Economic Theory and Institutions (5 papers) and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (4 papers). Clive Lawson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Clive Lawson's co-authors include Edward Lorenz, David Keeble, Frank Wilkinson, Barry Moore, Helen Lawton Smith, Mark Peacock, Stephen Pratten and Nuno Ornelas Martins and has published in prestigious journals such as Small Business Economics, Regional Studies and Cambridge Journal of Economics.

In The Last Decade

Clive Lawson

15 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Collective Learning, Tacit Knowledge and Regional Innovative Capacity

1999 509 citations Clive Lawson, Edward Lorenz Regional Studies profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Clive Lawson United Kingdom	12	580	513	344	278	261	16	1.2k
AnnaLee Saxenian Taiwan	5	582 1.0×	641 1.2×	394 1.1×	387 1.4×	274 1.0×	9	1.5k
F.W.M. Boekema Netherlands	17	375 0.6×	442 0.9×	258 0.8×	254 0.9×	343 1.3×	49	1.1k
Philip R. Tomlinson United Kingdom	20	567 1.0×	572 1.1×	262 0.8×	173 0.6×	334 1.3×	72	1.4k
Hiro Izushi United Kingdom	16	369 0.6×	340 0.7×	180 0.5×	200 0.7×	192 0.7×	33	854
Vesa Harmaakorpi Finland	21	446 0.8×	258 0.5×	406 1.2×	209 0.8×	272 1.0×	40	1.0k
Dirk Dohse Germany	13	234 0.4×	585 1.1×	566 1.6×	193 0.7×	190 0.7×	40	1.2k
Dan Breznitz United States	17	331 0.6×	383 0.7×	342 1.0×	186 0.7×	271 1.0×	73	1.0k
Ekaterina Turkina Canada	16	534 0.9×	502 1.0×	363 1.1×	178 0.6×	91 0.3×	57	1.2k
Marina Ranga United States	15	505 0.9×	349 0.7×	757 2.2×	129 0.5×	315 1.2×	22	1.3k
Chris DeBresson Canada	9	445 0.8×	299 0.6×	182 0.5×	216 0.8×	113 0.4×	18	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Clive Lawson

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

All Works

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Lawson, Clive. (2017). Technology and Isolation. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 26 indexed citations

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Lawson, Clive. (2015). Order and process in institutionalist thought: Commons and Ayres. Cambridge Journal of Economics. 39(4). 1053–1069. 13 indexed citations

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Lawson, Clive. (2013). Technology, technological determinism and the transformational model of social activity. 46–63. 2 indexed citations

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Lawson, Clive. (2010). Technology and the Extension of Human Capabilities. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 40(2). 207–223. 41 indexed citations

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Lawson, Clive. (2009). Ayres, Technology and Technical Objects. Journal of Economic Issues. 43(3). 641–660. 16 indexed citations

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Lawson, Clive. (2008). An Ontology of Technology. Techné Research in Philosophy and Technology. 12(1). 48–64. 35 indexed citations

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Lawson, Clive, et al.. (2007). Introduction: ontology, philosophy and the social sciences. 15–28. 5 indexed citations

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Smith, Helen Lawton, David Keeble, Clive Lawson, Barry Moore, & Frank Wilkinson. (2001). University–business interaction in the Oxford and Cambridge regions. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 92(1). 88–99. 24 indexed citations

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Keeble, David & Clive Lawson. (1999). Collective Learning Processes, Networking and 'Institutional Thickness' in the Cambridge Region. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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Keeble, David, Clive Lawson, Barry Moore, & Frank Wilkinson. (1999). Collective Learning Processes, Networking and ‘Institutional Thickness' in the Cambridge Region. Regional Studies. 33(4). 319–332. 327 indexed citations

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Lawson, Clive & Edward Lorenz. (1999). Collective Learning, Tacit Knowledge and Regional Innovative Capacity. Regional Studies. 33(4). 305–317. 509 indexed citations breakdown →

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Keeble, David, Clive Lawson, Helen Lawton Smith, Barry Moore, & Frank Wilkinson. (1998). Internationalisation Processes, Networking and Local Embeddedness in Technology-Intensive Small Firms. Small Business Economics. 11(4). 327–342. 169 indexed citations

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Lawson, Clive. (1996). Holism and Collectivism in the Work of J. R. Commons. Journal of Economic Issues. 30(4). 967–984. 18 indexed citations

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Lawson, Clive. (1996). Realism Theory and Individualism in the Work of Carl Menger. Review of Social Economy. 54(4). 445–464. 6 indexed citations

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Lawson, Clive, Mark Peacock, & Stephen Pratten. (1996). Realism, underlabouring and institutions. Cambridge Journal of Economics. 20(1). 137–151. 16 indexed citations

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Lawson, Clive. (1994). The transformational model of social activity and economic analysis: a reinterpretation of the work of J.R. Commons. Review of Political Economy. 6(2). 186–204. 31 indexed citations

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