George Ball

778 total citations
20 papers, 539 citations indexed

About

George Ball is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, George Ball has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 539 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Strategy and Management, 6 papers in Management Information Systems and 6 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in George Ball's work include Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (5 papers), Quality and Supply Management (4 papers) and Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare (3 papers). George Ball is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (5 papers), Quality and Supply Management (4 papers) and Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare (3 papers). George Ball collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Switzerland. George Ball's co-authors include Rachna Shah, Kaitlin D. Wowak, Serguei Netessine, David J. Ketchen, Enno Siemsen, Corinne Post, Karen Donohue, Christoph G. Schmidt, David Wuttke and H. Sebastian Heese and has published in prestigious journals such as Management Science, Journal of Operations Management and Production and Operations Management.

In The Last Decade

George Ball

19 papers receiving 518 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
George Ball United States 10 284 152 106 97 87 20 539
Kaitlin D. Wowak United States 11 459 1.6× 254 1.7× 106 1.0× 74 0.8× 148 1.7× 23 774
Xiaosong Peng United States 11 232 0.8× 166 1.1× 112 1.1× 82 0.8× 38 0.4× 25 502
K. Bharatendra United States 8 251 0.9× 129 0.8× 50 0.5× 92 0.9× 37 0.4× 13 530
Hung‐Chung Su United States 13 364 1.3× 258 1.7× 94 0.9× 86 0.9× 32 0.4× 22 545
Guanyi Lu United States 11 594 2.1× 403 2.7× 148 1.4× 102 1.1× 59 0.7× 20 859
Anirban Adhikary India 9 487 1.7× 185 1.2× 107 1.0× 193 2.0× 30 0.3× 14 643
Xincheng Wang China 11 223 0.8× 108 0.7× 34 0.3× 126 1.3× 50 0.6× 21 493
Sangho Chae United States 12 462 1.6× 259 1.7× 65 0.6× 66 0.7× 33 0.4× 18 579
Salam Abdallah United Arab Emirates 13 135 0.5× 128 0.8× 87 0.8× 42 0.4× 30 0.3× 32 520
Hamieda Parker South Africa 9 338 1.2× 107 0.7× 48 0.5× 88 0.9× 28 0.3× 20 517

Countries citing papers authored by George Ball

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Fields of papers citing papers by George Ball

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Ball

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of George Ball. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of George Ball 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 George Ball. George Ball 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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Wowak, Kaitlin D., et al.. (2025). The Politics of Product Safety: Top Management Team Political Ideology and Serious Medical Product Recalls. Management Science. 72(2). 1132–1156. 1 indexed citations
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Gray, J.A., et al.. (2025). Are All Generic Drugs Created Equal? An Empirical Analysis of Generic Drug Manufacturing Location and Serious Drug Adverse Events. Production and Operations Management. 34(9). 2601–2617. 3 indexed citations
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Ball, George, et al.. (2025). Obligatory Responses to FDA Inspection Outcomes and Future Drug Shortages. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 27(3). 789–807. 1 indexed citations
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Anand, Gopesh, George Ball, John Gray, & Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee. (2025). Operations Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Journal of Operations Management. 71(3). 302–313. 1 indexed citations
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Ball, George, et al.. (2024). Gender and Serious Drug Recalls: A Textual Sentiment Analysis of Drug Reviews on WebMD. Production and Operations Management. 34(4). 698–710. 5 indexed citations
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Shah, Rachna, et al.. (2024). Product Recall Decisions and the CEO: Informed Trading in the Medical Device Industry. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Ball, George, et al.. (2023). Scheduling Smarter: Scheduling Decision Impact on Nurse-Aide Turnover. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 26(1). 182–196. 2 indexed citations
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Ball, George, et al.. (2023). Generic Drug Transparency: Testing a Regulatory Policy Proposal. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Darby, Jessica L., David J. Ketchen, George Ball, & Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee. (2023). CEO Stock Ownership, Recall Timing, and Stock Market Penalties. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 25(5). 1909–1930. 9 indexed citations
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Ball, George, et al.. (2022). The Recall Decision Exposed: Automobile Recall Timing and Process Data Set. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 24(3). 1457–1473. 16 indexed citations
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Mukherjee, Ujjal Kumar, et al.. (2021). Hiding in the Herd: The Product Recall Clustering Phenomenon. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 24(1). 392–410. 21 indexed citations
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Ball, George, et al.. (2021). CEO Tenure and Recall Risk Management in the Consumer Products Industry. Production and Operations Management. 31(2). 743–763. 22 indexed citations
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Wowak, Kaitlin D., George Ball, Corinne Post, & David J. Ketchen. (2020). The Influence of Female Directors on Product Recall Decisions. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 23(4). 895–913. 79 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Christoph G., David Wuttke, George Ball, & H. Sebastian Heese. (2020). Does social media elevate supply chain importance? An empirical examination of supply chain glitches, Twitter reactions, and stock market returns. Journal of Operations Management. 66(6). 646–669. 66 indexed citations
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Ball, George, Rachna Shah, & Kaitlin D. Wowak. (2018). Product competition, managerial discretion, and manufacturing recalls in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. Journal of Operations Management. 58-59(1). 59–72. 71 indexed citations
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Ball, George, Rachna Shah, & Karen Donohue. (2018). The decision to recall: A behavioral investigation in the medical device industry. Journal of Operations Management. 62(1). 1–15. 50 indexed citations
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Ball, George, Jeffrey T. Macher, & Ariel Dora Stern. (2018). Recalls, Innovation, and Competitor Response: Evidence from Medical Device Firms. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Ball, George, Enno Siemsen, & Rachna Shah. (2017). Do Plant Inspections Predict Future Quality? The Role of Investigator Experience. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 19(4). 534–550. 61 indexed citations
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Shah, Rachna, George Ball, & Serguei Netessine. (2016). Plant Operations and Product Recalls in the Automotive Industry: An Empirical Investigation. Management Science. 63(8). 2439–2459. 100 indexed citations
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Shah, Rachna, George Ball, & Serguei Netessine. (2013). Plant Operations and Product Recalls in the Automotive Industry: An Empirical Investigation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 26 indexed citations

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