Wickham Skinner

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Wickham Skinner is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation and Management Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Wickham Skinner has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Strategy and Management, 3 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation and 2 papers in Management Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Wickham Skinner's work include Operations Management Techniques (2 papers), Management and Marketing Education (2 papers) and Innovation and Knowledge Management (2 papers). Wickham Skinner is often cited by papers focused on Operations Management Techniques (2 papers), Management and Marketing Education (2 papers) and Innovation and Knowledge Management (2 papers). Wickham Skinner collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Latvia. Wickham Skinner's co-authors include Kenneth D. Ramsing, Kasra Ferdows, Walter Galenson, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, W. Earl Sasser and D. C. Rogers and has published in prestigious journals such as Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly and Journal of Operations Management.

In The Last Decade

Wickham Skinner

29 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

The Focused Factory

1974 744 citations Wickham Skinner Harvard business review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wickham Skinner United States	12	1.0k	979	434	281	277	31	2.0k
Jeffrey G. Miller United States	14	1.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	358 0.8×	199 0.7×	272 1.0×	31	1.9k
Robert E. Markland United States	19	773 0.8×	719 0.7×	210 0.5×	248 0.9×	212 0.8×	63	1.7k
Kasra Ferdows United States	17	1.6k 1.6×	1.6k 1.7×	511 1.2×	370 1.3×	320 1.2×	37	2.6k
Thomas M. Hout United States	7	528 0.5×	846 0.9×	332 0.8×	145 0.5×	291 1.1×	16	1.5k
Kimberly Bates United States	9	1.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	321 0.7×	143 0.5×	265 1.0×	14	2.3k
Gianluca Spina Italy	24	1.2k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	279 0.6×	160 0.6×	257 0.9×	51	2.0k
Richard J. Schonberger United States	25	2.0k 2.0×	1.5k 1.5×	424 1.0×	695 2.5×	688 2.5×	71	3.3k
Pär Åhlström Sweden	22	1.6k 1.5×	1.3k 1.4×	505 1.2×	325 1.2×	527 1.9×	41	2.4k
M. Bixby Cooper United States	13	866 0.9×	687 0.7×	128 0.3×	205 0.7×	223 0.8×	20	1.6k
P. M. Swamidass United States	25	1.5k 1.5×	1.8k 1.9×	665 1.5×	264 0.9×	380 1.4×	62	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wickham Skinner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wickham Skinner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wickham Skinner 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 Wickham Skinner. Wickham Skinner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Skinner, Wickham, et al.. (2015). The Strategy‐Focused Factory in Turbulent Times. Production and Operations Management. 24(10). 1513–1523. 13 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham. (2014). The Shareholder's Delight: companies that achieve competitive advantage from process innovation. International Journal of Technology Management. 7 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham. (2006). Manufacturing strategy: The story of its evolution. Journal of Operations Management. 25(2). 328–335. 44 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham, et al.. (1996). INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON MANUFACTURING STRATEGY. Production and Operations Management. 5(1). 1–2. 9 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham. (1989). Forty-Eight Words. Academy of Management Review. 14(2). 292–294. 1 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham. (1986). The productivity paradox. 75(9). 41–45. 243 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham. (1985). Manufacturing: The Formidable Competitive Weapon. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 332 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham. (1983). Getting Physical: New Strategic Leverage From Operations. Journal of Business Strategy. 3(4). 74–79. 10 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham. (1982). La gestión de los recursos humanos. Harvard-Deusto business review. 17–28. 1 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham, et al.. (1982). The impact of new technology: People and organizations in service industries. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 4 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham. (1981). Big hat, no cattle: managing human resources.. PubMed. 59(5). 106–14. 46 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham, et al.. (1980). FORMULATING A STRATEGY OF SUPERIOR RESOURCES. Journal of Business Strategy. 1(1). 4–10. 5 indexed citations

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Ramsing, Kenneth D. & Wickham Skinner. (1979). Manufacturing in the Corporate Strategy. Academy of Management Review. 4(2). 305–305. 222 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham & W. Earl Sasser. (1977). Managers with Impact: Verstile and Inconsistent.. Harvard business review. 3 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham. (1974). The Focused Factory. Harvard business review. 114–121. 744 indexed citations breakdown →

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Skinner, Wickham. (1973). A Quarter Century of Production Practices. Journal of Petroleum Technology. 25(12). 1425–1431. 1 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham, et al.. (1970). American Industries in Developing Economies. Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique. 3(2). 355–355. 1 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham, et al.. (1968). Manufacturing policy in the oil industry : a casebook of major production problems. 2 indexed citations

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Galenson, Walter & Wickham Skinner. (1968). American Industry in Developing Economies: The Management of International Manufacturing.. Administrative Science Quarterly. 13(3). 524–524. 5 indexed citations

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Skinner, Wickham, et al.. (1959). Sunshine Builders, Inc.. 1 indexed citations

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