Crawford Spence

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Crawford Spence is a scholar working on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science and Management Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Crawford Spence has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 18 papers in Management Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Crawford Spence's work include Management and Organizational Studies (20 papers), Accounting and Organizational Management (16 papers) and Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (10 papers). Crawford Spence is often cited by papers focused on Management and Organizational Studies (20 papers), Accounting and Organizational Management (16 papers) and Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (10 papers). Crawford Spence collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Crawford Spence's co-authors include Chris Carter, Javier Husillos, Pablo Archel, Carlos Larrínaga, Carmen Correa Ruiz, Rob Gray, Shahed Imam, Vaughan S. Radcliffe, Mitchell Stein and Jesse Dillard and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Business Ethics and The Accounting Review.

In The Last Decade

Crawford Spence

56 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Being a Successful Professional: An Exploration of Who Ma... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 50 100 150 200
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. Being a Successful Professional: An Exploration of Who Makes Partner in the Big 4
    2013 226 citations Chris Carter, Crawford Spence Contemporary Accounting Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Crawford Spence United Kingdom 26 1.0k 829 673 628 470 57 2.5k
Jim Haslam United Kingdom 28 717 0.7× 1.2k 1.4× 418 0.6× 1.1k 1.8× 273 0.6× 92 2.6k
Alan J. Richardson Canada 27 1.3k 1.3× 1.8k 2.2× 595 0.9× 1.2k 1.9× 476 1.0× 75 3.3k
Tony Tinker United States 26 642 0.6× 1.2k 1.4× 785 1.2× 1.4k 2.2× 299 0.6× 73 2.7k
Teerooven Soobaroyen United Kingdom 24 1.4k 1.4× 1.6k 1.9× 330 0.5× 350 0.6× 611 1.3× 67 2.7k
Farah Kodeih France 6 1.3k 1.2× 448 0.5× 1.6k 2.4× 431 0.7× 306 0.7× 14 3.0k
Paolo Quattrone United Kingdom 28 605 0.6× 745 0.9× 786 1.2× 1.6k 2.6× 236 0.5× 52 2.7k
Sonja Gallhofer United Kingdom 28 581 0.6× 1.1k 1.3× 444 0.7× 1.2k 1.9× 245 0.5× 65 2.6k
Evelyn Micelotta Canada 12 1.4k 1.4× 621 0.7× 2.0k 2.9× 491 0.8× 370 0.8× 24 3.7k
Christine Cooper United Kingdom 29 517 0.5× 718 0.9× 504 0.7× 909 1.4× 178 0.4× 71 2.6k
Mia Raynard Canada 12 1.7k 1.7× 751 0.9× 1.9k 2.8× 445 0.7× 424 0.9× 18 3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Crawford Spence

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Fields of papers citing papers by Crawford Spence

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Crawford Spence

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Crawford Spence. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Crawford Spence 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 Crawford Spence. Crawford Spence 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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Carter, Chris, et al.. (2024). The importance of being privileged: Digital entrepreneurship as a class project. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 11(1). 1–15. 3 indexed citations
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Spence, Crawford, et al.. (2024). Sell‐side analysts as social intermediaries. Contemporary Accounting Research. 41(3). 1925–1951. 1 indexed citations
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Millo, Yuval, et al.. (2024). Algorithmic self-referentiality: How machine learning pushes calculative practices to assess themselves. Accounting Organizations and Society. 113. 101567–101567. 4 indexed citations
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Spence, Crawford, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Big Data Analytics on Decision-Making Within the Government Sector. Big Data. 13(2). 73–89. 5 indexed citations
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Boulianne, Emilio, et al.. (2024). When audit confronts blockchain. Research Portal (King's College London). 38(4). 1149–1173. 1 indexed citations
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Millo, Yuval, et al.. (2023). The mountains are high and the emperor is far away: Credit scoring and the infrastructure of surveillance capitalism in China. Contemporary Accounting Research. 41(2). 781–808. 3 indexed citations
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Millo, Yuval, Crawford Spence, & James J. Valentine. (2023). The Field of Investment Advice: The Social Forces That Govern Equity Analysts. The Accounting Review. 98(7). 457–477. 6 indexed citations
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Millo, Yuval, Crawford Spence, & James J. Valentine. (2023). The Field of Investment Advice: The Social Forces that Govern Equity Analysts. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Millo, Yuval, Crawford Spence, & James J. Valentine. (2023). Active fund managers and the rise of passive investing: Epistemic opportunism in financial markets. Economy and Society. 52(2). 227–249. 3 indexed citations
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Spence, Crawford, et al.. (2023). Auditor judgment in the fourth industrial revolution. Contemporary Accounting Research. 41(1). 498–528. 19 indexed citations
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Blaylock, Bradley S., et al.. (2021). Tax-Motivated Profit Shifting in Big 4 Networks: Evidence from Europe. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Radcliffe, Vaughan S., et al.. (2018). Professional repositioning during times of institutional change: The case of tax practitioners and changing moral boundaries. Accounting Organizations and Society. 66. 45–59. 50 indexed citations
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Spence, Crawford, Georgios Voulgaris, & Mairi Maclean. (2017). Politics and the professions in a time of crisis. Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick). 4(3). 261–281. 9 indexed citations
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Spence, Crawford, Chris Carter, Javier Husillos, & Pablo Archel. (2016). Taste matters: Cultural capital and elites in proximate Strategic Action Fields. Human Relations. 70(2). 211–236. 22 indexed citations
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McDonald, Ruth & Crawford Spence. (2016). Professions and financial incentives. 4 indexed citations
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Reinecke, Juliane, et al.. (2015). Signposts or Weathervanes? The Curious Case of Corporate Social Responsibility and Conflict Minerals. Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick). 2 indexed citations
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Spence, Crawford, Chris Carter, Ataur Rahman Belal, et al.. (2015). Tracking habitus across a transnational professional field. Work Employment and Society. 30(1). 3–20. 54 indexed citations
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Archel, Pablo, Javier Husillos, Carlos Larrínaga, & Crawford Spence. (2009). Social Disclosure, Legitimacy Theory and the Role of the State. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations
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Spence, Crawford. (2009). Accounting for the dissolution of a nation state: Scotland and the Treaty of Union. Accounting Organizations and Society. 35(3). 377–392. 25 indexed citations
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Spence, Crawford. (2007). Social and environmental reporting and the corporate ego. Business Strategy and the Environment. 18(4). 254–265. 94 indexed citations

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