David Tranfield

81 total papers · 7.5k total citations
49 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

David Tranfield is a scholar working on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management and Management Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, David Tranfield has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, 16 papers in Strategy and Management and 15 papers in Management Information Systems. Recurrent topics in David Tranfield’s work include Innovation and Knowledge Management (15 papers), Management and Organizational Studies (14 papers) and Complex Systems and Decision Making (11 papers). David Tranfield is often cited by papers focused on Innovation and Knowledge Management (15 papers), Management and Organizational Studies (14 papers) and Complex Systems and Decision Making (11 papers). David Tranfield collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and Netherlands. David Tranfield's co-authors include David Denyer, Palie Smart, Joan Ernst van Aken, Ken Starkey, Stuart F. Smith, Roger Maull, John Bessant, Javier Marcos Cuevas, M. John Foster and David Partington and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Production Economics, Human Relations and International Journal of Information Management.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Tranfield

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

David Tranfield

48 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by David Tranfield

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by David Tranfield

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