Mike Wright

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Mike Wright is a scholar working on Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Mike Wright has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation, 7 papers in Accounting and 6 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in Mike Wright's work include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (9 papers), Private Equity and Venture Capital (6 papers) and Family Business Performance and Succession (5 papers). Mike Wright is often cited by papers focused on Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (9 papers), Private Equity and Venture Capital (6 papers) and Family Business Performance and Succession (5 papers). Mike Wright collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and United States. Mike Wright's co-authors include Paul Westhead, Deniz Ucbasaran, Jay B. Barney, David J. Ketchen, Manuel Alejandro Cardenete, Andy Lockett, Igor Filatotchev, Hans Bruining, Xiaohui Liu and Jiangyong Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

In The Last Decade

Mike Wright

19 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Future of Resource-Based Theory 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 250 500 750 1000
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. The Future of Resource-Based Theory
    2011 1.0k citations Jay B. Barney, David J. Ketchen et al. Journal of Management profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mike Wright United Kingdom 13 1.7k 1.0k 1.0k 1.0k 563 20 3.0k
Robert Wiltbank United States 21 2.2k 1.3× 1.3k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 868 0.8× 393 0.7× 32 3.4k
Moren Lévesque Canada 24 1.9k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 646 0.6× 774 0.8× 759 1.3× 76 3.1k
Nina Rosenbusch Germany 10 2.0k 1.2× 1.0k 1.0× 1.4k 1.3× 935 0.9× 1.1k 1.9× 26 3.7k
Louis Marino United States 26 2.4k 1.4× 885 0.8× 1.3k 1.3× 1.4k 1.4× 589 1.0× 49 3.7k
Leslie E. Palich United States 16 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 903 0.9× 715 1.3× 28 3.2k
Patrick M. Kreiser United States 21 2.2k 1.3× 720 0.7× 1.2k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 459 0.8× 33 3.1k
S. Michael Camp United States 11 1.7k 1.0× 668 0.6× 1.4k 1.4× 1.0k 1.0× 462 0.8× 15 2.8k
Reed E. Nelson Brazil 12 1.9k 1.1× 652 0.6× 1.0k 1.0× 939 0.9× 439 0.8× 41 3.1k
José Carlos Casillas Bueno Spain 25 1.7k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 1.6k 1.5× 1.5k 1.5× 642 1.1× 64 3.4k
Dietmar Grichnik Switzerland 24 1.5k 0.9× 783 0.7× 587 0.6× 863 0.8× 359 0.6× 75 2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Mike Wright

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mike Wright

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mike Wright

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mike Wright. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mike Wright 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 Mike Wright. Mike Wright 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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Langley, Ann, et al.. (2017). What's the Next Chapter for Strategy as Narrative?. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2017(1). 15671–15671. 1 indexed citations
2.
Phan, Phillip & Mike Wright. (2016). Whither the Academy of Management Perspectives. Academy of Management Perspectives. 30(1). 1–4. 10 indexed citations
3.
Westhead, Paul & Mike Wright. (2013). Entrepreneurship: A Very Short Introduction. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 17 indexed citations
4.
Westhead, Paul & Mike Wright. (2013). Entrepreneurship. Oxford University Press eBooks. 12 indexed citations
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Barney, Jay B. & Mike Wright. (2011). Introduction from the new coeditors. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 5(1). 1–2. 1 indexed citations
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Grimaldi, Rosa, Martín Kenney, Donald S. Siegel, & Mike Wright. (2011). 30 Years after Bayh-Dole: Reassessing Academic Entrepreneurship. SSRN Electronic Journal. 46 indexed citations
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Barney, Jay B., David J. Ketchen, & Mike Wright. (2011). The Future of Resource-Based Theory. Journal of Management. 37(5). 1299–1315. 1029 indexed citations breakdown →
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Scholes, Louise, Mike Wright, Paul Westhead, & Hans Bruining. (2010). Strategic changes in family firms post management buyout: Ownership and governance issues. International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship. 28(5). 505–521. 49 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaohui, et al.. (2010). Human mobility and international knowledge spillovers: evidence from high‐tech small and medium enterprises in an emerging market. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 4(4). 340–355. 96 indexed citations
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Ucbasaran, Deniz, Paul Westhead, Mike Wright, & Manuel Alejandro Cardenete. (2009). The nature of entrepreneurial experience, business failure and comparative optimism. Journal of Business Venturing. 25(6). 541–555. 390 indexed citations
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Scholes, Louise, et al.. (2008). Strategic Changes in Family Firms Post-Management Buyout: Ownership and Governance Issues. SSRN Electronic Journal. 11 indexed citations
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Wright, Mike, Evila Piva, Simon Mosey, & Andy Lockett. (2008). Academic entrepreneurship and business schools. Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha). 1–39. 1 indexed citations
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Ucbasaran, Deniz, Paul Westhead, & Mike Wright. (2007). Opportunity Identification and Pursuit: Does an Entrepreneur’s Human Capital Matter?. Small Business Economics. 30(2). 153–173. 484 indexed citations
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Wright, Mike, et al.. (2007). Information Sharing, Price Negotiation and Management Buy-outs of Private Family-owned Firms. Small Business Economics. 29(3). 329–349. 58 indexed citations
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Ucbasaran, Deniz, Paul Westhead, & Mike Wright. (2006). Habitual Entrepreneurs. Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks. 90 indexed citations
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Ucbasaran, Deniz, Andy Lockett, Mike Wright, & Paul Westhead. (2003). Entrepreneurial Founder Teams: Factors Associated with Member Entry and Exit. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 28(2). 107–128. 297 indexed citations
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Vohora, Ajay, Mike Wright, & Andy Lockett. (2002). The Formation of High-Tech University Spinouts Through Joint Ventures. 2002.1(0). 77–82. 3 indexed citations
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Ucbasaran, Deniz, Paul Westhead, & Mike Wright. (2001). The Focus of Entrepreneurial Research: Contextual and Process Issues. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 25(4). 57–80. 378 indexed citations
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Filatotchev, Igor, Mike Wright, Trevor Buck, & Vladimir Zhukov. (1999). Corporate entrepreneurs and privatized firms in russia, ukraine, and belarus. Journal of Business Venturing. 14(5-6). 475–492. 37 indexed citations
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Wright, Mike, Igor Filatotchev, & Trevor Buck. (1993). The role of buy-outs in restructuring Central and Eastern Europe: Theory and practice. International Business Review. 2(3). 239–252. 4 indexed citations

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