Matthew Alford

829 total citations
17 papers, 308 citations indexed

About

Matthew Alford is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Business and International Management and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Alford has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 308 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Strategy and Management, 10 papers in Business and International Management and 4 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Matthew Alford's work include Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (15 papers), Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (10 papers) and Organic Food and Agriculture (4 papers). Matthew Alford is often cited by papers focused on Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (15 papers), Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (10 papers) and Organic Food and Agriculture (4 papers). Matthew Alford collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, South Africa and United States. Matthew Alford's co-authors include Nicola Phillips, Valentina De Marchi, Stephanie Barrientos, Giovanni Pasquali, Aarti Krishnan, Uma Kothari, Sang Lee, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Noemi Sinkovics and Pablo Navarrete-Hernández and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, World Development and Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

In The Last Decade

Matthew Alford

15 papers receiving 295 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Matthew Alford United Kingdom 10 239 106 65 49 46 17 308
Mark Dallas United States 6 230 1.0× 122 1.2× 38 0.6× 74 1.5× 43 0.9× 16 303
Anne Caroline Posthuma United States 9 267 1.1× 88 0.8× 27 0.4× 80 1.6× 118 2.6× 21 389
Elena Baglioni United Kingdom 7 163 0.7× 59 0.6× 33 0.5× 21 0.4× 49 1.1× 8 341
Gale Raj‐Reichert United Kingdom 10 172 0.7× 68 0.6× 12 0.2× 36 0.7× 35 0.8× 15 244
Ben Selwyn United Kingdom 11 394 1.6× 134 1.3× 86 1.3× 68 1.4× 126 2.7× 17 567
Stefan Renckens Canada 11 254 1.1× 34 0.3× 34 0.5× 8 0.2× 32 0.7× 19 354
Timea Pál Italy 3 264 1.1× 37 0.3× 17 0.3× 17 0.3× 59 1.3× 7 300
Víctor Ramiro Fernández Argentina 7 111 0.5× 58 0.5× 16 0.2× 65 1.3× 71 1.5× 67 271
Lizbeth Navas‐Alemán United Kingdom 5 199 0.8× 121 1.1× 34 0.5× 96 2.0× 31 0.7× 7 331
Nikolaus Hammer United Kingdom 8 244 1.0× 28 0.3× 26 0.4× 20 0.4× 148 3.2× 17 346

Countries citing papers authored by Matthew Alford

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthew Alford

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew Alford

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All Works

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Alford, Matthew, et al.. (2025). Private and public governance of decent work in regional and domestic value chains: the case of horticulture and garments in Sub-Saharan Africa. Review of International Political Economy. 32(5). 1643–1668.
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Alford, Matthew, Giovanni Pasquali, Stephanie Barrientos, & Maggie Opondo. (2024). Governance of intersecting value chains in an era of polycentric trade: the case of Kenyan fresh fruit and vegetables. Journal of Economic Geography. 24(5). 663–678. 1 indexed citations
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Navarrete-Hernández, Pablo, et al.. (2023). Inclusive informal-to-informal trade: the poverty alleviation potential of street vendors’ trade networks in Santiago de Chile. Third World Quarterly. 44(8). 1844–1864. 2 indexed citations
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Driffield, Nigel, et al.. (2023). What Does It Take to Build an Inclusive Governance of Global Value Chains? A Framework for Intervention. AIB Insights. 23(2). 3 indexed citations
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Alford, Matthew, et al.. (2023). Governance and Power Across Intersecting Value Chains: The Case of South African Apples. Journal of Business Ethics. 189(1). 69–86. 3 indexed citations
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Pasquali, Giovanni & Matthew Alford. (2021). Global value chains, private governance and multiple end-markets: insights from Kenyan leather. Journal of Economic Geography. 22(1). 129–157. 10 indexed citations
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Alford, Matthew, et al.. (2021). Southern actors and the governance of labour standards in global production networks: The case of South African fruit and wine. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 53(8). 1915–1934. 13 indexed citations
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Marchi, Valentina De & Matthew Alford. (2021). State policies and upgrading in global value chains: A systematic literature review. Journal of International Business Policy. 5(1). 88–111. 49 indexed citations
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Pasquali, Giovanni, Aarti Krishnan, & Matthew Alford. (2021). Multichain strategies and economic upgrading in global value chains: Evidence from Kenyan horticulture. World Development. 146. 105598–105598. 16 indexed citations
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Alford, Matthew, et al.. (2019). Re-articulating labour in global production networks: The case of street traders in Barcelona. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 37(6). 1081–1099. 11 indexed citations
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Alford, Matthew & Nicola Phillips. (2018). The political economy of state governance in global production networks: change, crisis and contestation in the South African fruit sector. Review of International Political Economy. 25(1). 98–121. 74 indexed citations
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Alford, Matthew. (2018). Antagonistic governance in South African fruit global production networks: a neo‐Gramscian perspective. Global Networks. 20(1). 42–64. 21 indexed citations
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Sinkovics, Noemi, et al.. (2018). The use of global value chain/global production network related literature in international business research: investigating the nature and degree of integration. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 258–296. 7 indexed citations
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Alford, Matthew, et al.. (2017). Multi‐scalar Labour Agency in Global Production Networks: Contestation and Crisis in the South African Fruit Sector. Development and Change. 48(4). 721–745. 52 indexed citations
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Lee, Sang, et al.. (2017). The Effects of Information Communication Technology on Stock Market Capitalization: A Panel Data Analysis. Business and Economic Research. 7(1). 261–261. 11 indexed citations
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