Nick Williams

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
51 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Nick Williams is a scholar working on Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick Williams has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation, 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 14 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Nick Williams's work include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (26 papers), Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (14 papers) and Family Business Performance and Succession (9 papers). Nick Williams is often cited by papers focused on Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (26 papers), Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (14 papers) and Family Business Performance and Succession (9 papers). Nick Williams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Kosovo and Australia. Nick Williams's co-authors include Tim Vorley, Rachel Doern, Robert Huggins, Colin C. Williams, Fabien Quétier, S. McIntyre, Karl Grigulis, D. L. Garden, Sandra Lavorel and Josh Dorrough and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Business Venturing.

In The Last Decade

Nick Williams

49 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Assessing functional diversity in the field – methodology matters!

2007 740 citations Nick Williams et al. profile →
Special issue on entrepreneurship and crises: business as usual? An introduction and review of the literature

2018 312 citations Nick Williams, Tim Vorley et al. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nick Williams	849	729	533	483	371	51	2.6k
Paulo Guimarães	400 0.5×	2.3k 3.1×	159 0.3×	482 1.0×	565 1.5×	66	3.7k
Michele‐Lee Moore	345 0.4×	187 0.3×	73 0.1×	694 1.4×	167 0.5×	38	2.5k
Daniel Bennett	192 0.2×	408 0.6×	163 0.3×	354 0.7×	110 0.3×	82	1.4k
Mark Morrison	218 0.3×	1.7k 2.3×	51 0.1×	693 1.4×	226 0.6×	123	3.3k
Georgina Cundill	202 0.2×	306 0.4×	226 0.4×	1.0k 2.2×	106 0.3×	50	4.3k
Lorrae van Kerkhoff	260 0.3×	225 0.3×	178 0.3×	887 1.8×	105 0.3×	51	3.4k
Rosemary Hill	128 0.2×	250 0.3×	407 0.8×	442 0.9×	128 0.3×	84	4.3k
David S. White	195 0.2×	111 0.2×	481 0.9×	264 0.5×	502 1.4×	132	3.1k
L. Jamila Haider	91 0.1×	553 0.8×	190 0.4×	1.1k 2.3×	142 0.4×	39	3.5k
Catherine M. Dalton	303 0.4×	284 0.4×	104 0.2×	375 0.8×	1.1k 2.9×	85	3.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nick Williams

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nick Williams

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20 of 20 papers shown

Muñoz, Pablo, Jonathan Kimmitt, & Nick Williams. (2025). Relational Entrepreneurial Perseverance in Extreme Contexts. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 49(6). 1669–1709.

Refai, Deema, Steffen Korsgaard, María Villares‐Varela, et al.. (2025). Entrepreneurial agency in constrained contexts: An introduction and review of the literature. International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship. 43(5). 457–473. 2 indexed citations

Williams, Nick, et al.. (2024). The interplay of affirmative action and entrepreneurial culture: Understanding institutional privilege and exclusion in Malaysia. The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. 1 indexed citations

Krasniqi, Besni̇k A., et al.. (2023). The impact of institutional quality on country-level variations in foreign equity shares in transition economies. Review of International Business and Strategy. 33(4). 581–604. 3 indexed citations

Spigel, Ben, et al.. (2022). Managing through a crisis: emotional leadership strategies of high-growth entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. 35(1-2). 24–48. 11 indexed citations

Williams, Nick, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, & Besni̇k A. Krasniqi. (2022). When Forced Migrants Go Home: The Journey of Returnee Entrepreneurs in the Post-conflict Economies of Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 47(2). 430–460. 24 indexed citations

Bamiatzi, Vassiliki, et al.. (2021). How childhood ADHD-like symptoms predict selection into entrepreneurship and implications on entrepreneurial performance. Journal of Business Venturing. 36(3). 106091–106091. 12 indexed citations

Muñoz, Pablo, et al.. (2020). Reorienting entrepreneurial support infrastructure to tackle a social crisis: A rapid response. Journal of Business Venturing Insights. 14. e00181–e00181. 40 indexed citations

Beecham, Roger, Nick Williams, & Alexis Comber. (2020). Regionally-structured explanations behind area-level populism: An update to recent ecological analyses. PLoS ONE. 15(3). e0229974–e0229974. 11 indexed citations

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Williams, Nick. (2019). Moving beyond financial remittances: The evolution of diaspora policy in post-conflict economies. International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship. 38(1). 41–62. 11 indexed citations

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Williams, Nick, Robert Huggins, & Piers Thompson. (2018). Entrepreneurship and Social Capital: Examining the Association in Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 44(2). 289–309. 14 indexed citations

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Williams, Nick. (2018). Mobilising diaspora to promote homeland investment: The progress of policy in post-conflict economies. Environment and Planning C Politics and Space. 36(7). 1256–1279. 22 indexed citations

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Gherhes, Cristian, et al.. (2017). The nature of publicly funded innovation and implications for regional growth. Competitiveness Review An International Business Journal incorporating Journal of Global Competitiveness. 28(1). 6–21. 2 indexed citations

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Vorley, Tim & Nick Williams. (2015). Creating and sustaining a model of community-based enterprise learning: a participatory case study of ready hubs. Community Development. 46(5). 559–579. 8 indexed citations

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Vorley, Tim, et al.. (2015). The role of civic leadership in fostering economic resilience in City Regions. Policy Studies. 37(1). 1–16. 20 indexed citations

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Williams, Nick, Tim Vorley, & Panayiotis H. Ketikidis. (2013). Economic resilience and entrepreneurship: A case study of the Thessaloniki City Region. Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit. 28(4). 399–415. 60 indexed citations

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Williams, Nick & Colin C. Williams. (2011). Beyond necessity versus opportunity entrepreneurship: some lessons from English deprived urban neighbourhoods. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. 10(1). 23–40. 84 indexed citations

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Williams, Nick. (2011). Cities on the shore: the urban littoral frontier. 3(1). 24–24. 3 indexed citations

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Carpenter, R., et al.. (2007). After 'Unit 1421': an exploratory study into female students' attitudes and behaviours towards binge drinking at Leeds University. Journal of Public Health. 30(1). 8–13. 22 indexed citations

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Huston, David L., Terrence P. Mernagh, Leon Bagas, et al.. (2006). Lode–gold mineralization in the Tanami region, northern Australia. Mineralium Deposita. 42(1-2). 175–204. 43 indexed citations

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