Kent Walker

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Kent Walker is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Marketing and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Kent Walker has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Strategy and Management, 10 papers in Marketing and 8 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in Kent Walker's work include Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (13 papers), Environmental Sustainability in Business (9 papers) and Management and Organizational Studies (7 papers). Kent Walker is often cited by papers focused on Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (13 papers), Environmental Sustainability in Business (9 papers) and Management and Organizational Studies (7 papers). Kent Walker collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Kent Walker's co-authors include Fang Wan, Na Ni, Zhou Zhang, Bruno Dyck, Weidong Huo, Xin Yu, André O. Laplume, Francine Schlosser, Arran Caza and David L. Deephouse and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies.

In The Last Decade

Kent Walker

20 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Harm of Symbolic Actions and Green-Washing: Corporate Actions and Communications on Environmental Performance and Their Financial Implications

2011 689 citations Kent Walker, Fang Wan Journal of Business Ethics profile →
A Systematic Review of the Corporate Reputation Literature: Definition, Measurement, and Theory

2010 572 citations Kent Walker Corporate Reputation Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kent Walker Canada	14	1.3k	876	291	272	197	21	1.8k
Michelle Rodrigue Canada	14	1.4k 1.0×	857 1.0×	292 1.0×	531 2.0×	155 0.8×	30	2.0k
Wendy Chapple United Kingdom	14	1.4k 1.1×	681 0.8×	276 0.9×	329 1.2×	350 1.8×	23	1.9k
José Milton de Sousa-Filho Brazil	13	984 0.7×	633 0.7×	173 0.6×	364 1.3×	156 0.8×	52	1.5k
Daniel Arenas Spain	19	1.3k 0.9×	668 0.8×	480 1.6×	229 0.8×	134 0.7×	55	1.9k
Iain J. Clelland United States	7	1.1k 0.9×	761 0.9×	249 0.9×	272 1.0×	191 1.0×	12	1.4k
R. Scott Marshall United States	16	1.3k 1.0×	959 1.1×	241 0.8×	487 1.8×	209 1.1×	23	2.1k
A. Wren Montgomery Canada	11	836 0.6×	768 0.9×	217 0.7×	135 0.5×	223 1.1×	21	1.7k
Colin Higgins Australia	16	1.4k 1.0×	703 0.8×	342 1.2×	603 2.2×	99 0.5×	39	1.9k
Tobias Gößling Netherlands	12	1.0k 0.8×	656 0.7×	236 0.8×	297 1.1×	183 0.9×	17	1.5k
Muhammad Azizul Islam Australia	21	1.6k 1.2×	854 1.0×	249 0.9×	649 2.4×	153 0.8×	70	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Kent Walker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kent Walker

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20 of 20 papers shown

Laplume, André O., Jeffrey S. Harrison, Zhou Zhang, Xin Yu, & Kent Walker. (2021). Evidence of an Inverted U–Shaped Relationship between Stakeholder Management Performance Variation and Firm Performance. Business Ethics Quarterly. 32(2). 272–298. 13 indexed citations

Walker, Kent, Xin Yu, & Zhou Zhang. (2020). All for one or all for three: Empirical evidence of paradox theory in the triple-bottom-line. Journal of Cleaner Production. 275. 122881–122881. 29 indexed citations

Laplume, André O., Kent Walker, Zhou Zhang, & Xin Yu. (2020). Incumbent Stakeholder Management Performance and New Entry. Journal of Business Ethics. 174(3). 629–644. 9 indexed citations

Dyck, Bruno, Kent Walker, & Arran Caza. (2019). Antecedents of sustainable organizing: A look at the relationship between organizational culture and the triple bottom line. Journal of Cleaner Production. 231. 1235–1247. 38 indexed citations

Walker, Kent, Zhou Zhang, & Na Ni. (2018). The Mirror Effect: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Social Irresponsibility and Firm Performance in Coordinated Market Economies and Liberal Market Economies. British Journal of Management. 30(1). 151–168. 119 indexed citations

Walker, Kent. (2018). Top ten journal articles for residents beginning a pediatric orthopaedic rotation. Current Orthopaedic Practice. 29(3). 193–196.

Walker, Kent, et al.. (2017). The Use of Praxis in the Classroom to Facilitate Student Transformation. Journal of Business Ethics. 157(1). 199–216. 7 indexed citations

Walker, Kent, et al.. (2016). The angel-halo effect. European Business Review. 28(6). 709–722. 21 indexed citations

Walker, Kent, Francine Schlosser, & David L. Deephouse. (2014). Organizational Ingenuity and the Paradox of Embedded Agency: The Case of the Embryonic Ontario Solar Energy Industry. Organization Studies. 35(4). 613–634. 38 indexed citations

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Walker, Kent & Bruno Dyck. (2014). The Primary Importance of Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethicality in Corporate Reputation: An Empirical Study. Business and Society Review. 119(1). 147–174. 35 indexed citations

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Walker, Kent & André O. Laplume. (2014). Sustainability fellowships: the potential for collective stakeholder influence. European Business Review. 26(2). 149–168. 18 indexed citations

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Walker, Kent, Na Ni, & Weidong Huo. (2013). Is the Red Dragon Green? An Examination of the Antecedents and Consequences of Environmental Proactivity in China. Journal of Business Ethics. 125(1). 27–43. 90 indexed citations

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Walker, Kent. (2013). The Detroit River International Crossing Bridge: A Stakeholder Analysis Of How One Wealthy Individual Could Exercise His Will Against Many. Scholarship at UWindsor (University of Windsor). 1 indexed citations

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Walker, Kent, Na Ni, & Bruno Dyck. (2013). Recipes for Successful Sustainability: Empirical Organizational Configurations for Strong Corporate Environmental Performance. Business Strategy and the Environment. 24(1). 40–57. 41 indexed citations

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Dyck, Bruno, Kent Walker, Frederick A. Starke, & Krista L. Uggerslev. (2012). Enhancing Critical Thinking by Teaching Two Distinct Approaches to Management. Journal of Education for Business. 87(6). 343–357. 12 indexed citations

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Hutchinson, David, Jang Bahadur Singh, & Kent Walker. (2012). An assessment of the early stages of a sustainable business model in the Canadian fast food industry. European Business Review. 24(6). 519–531. 17 indexed citations

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Walker, Kent & Fang Wan. (2011). The Harm of Symbolic Actions and Green-Washing: Corporate Actions and Communications on Environmental Performance and Their Financial Implications. Journal of Business Ethics. 109(2). 227–242. 689 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dyck, Bruno, Kent Walker, Frederick A. Starke, & Krista L. Uggerslev. (2011). Addressing Concerns Raised by Critics of Business Schools by Teaching Multiple Approaches to Management. Business and Society Review. 116(1). 1–27. 15 indexed citations

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Walker, Kent. (2010). A Systematic Review of the Corporate Reputation Literature: Definition, Measurement, and Theory. Corporate Reputation Review. 12(4). 357–387. 572 indexed citations breakdown →

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Litz, Reginald A. & Kent Walker. (2007). Buying into buying groups: is it good for the family firm?. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. 3(4). 419–436. 2 indexed citations

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