William C. Frederick

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

William C. Frederick is a scholar working on Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, William C. Frederick has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Information Systems and Management, 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in William C. Frederick's work include Ethics in Business and Education (11 papers), Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (5 papers) and Magnetic Properties of Alloys (3 papers). William C. Frederick is often cited by papers focused on Ethics in Business and Education (11 papers), Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (5 papers) and Magnetic Properties of Alloys (3 papers). William C. Frederick collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. William C. Frederick's co-authors include Sidney I. Lirtzman, Diane L. Swanson, Suresh Srivastva, Keith Davis, Lee E. Preston, M. Hoch, David Haven Blake, Robert L. Blomstrom, H. J. Garrett and C. W. Searle and has published in prestigious journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal and Administrative Science Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

William C. Frederick

59 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

  1. The Growing Concern over Business Responsibility
    1960 351 citations William C. Frederick California Management Review profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
William C. Frederick 1.2k 742 660 585 262 62 2.2k
David A. Jones 807 0.7× 274 0.4× 1.9k 2.8× 433 0.7× 765 2.9× 65 3.0k
Liqun Wei 721 0.6× 192 0.3× 995 1.5× 167 0.3× 377 1.4× 78 2.2k
Graham Dietz 707 0.6× 190 0.3× 1.5k 2.2× 150 0.3× 712 2.7× 30 2.8k
D. Brent Smith 357 0.3× 438 0.6× 1.4k 2.1× 100 0.2× 788 3.0× 30 3.0k
Barry M. Goldman 427 0.4× 437 0.6× 2.3k 3.4× 159 0.3× 1.4k 5.2× 40 3.6k
Jonathan Bundy 1.2k 1.0× 179 0.2× 723 1.1× 311 0.5× 691 2.6× 31 2.5k
Thomas W. Zimmerer 347 0.3× 195 0.3× 326 0.5× 103 0.2× 255 1.0× 61 1.8k
Joseph Heath 333 0.3× 306 0.4× 202 0.3× 153 0.3× 596 2.3× 82 2.0k
Corine Boon 696 0.6× 241 0.3× 2.5k 3.8× 208 0.4× 682 2.6× 36 3.7k
Rakesh Khurana 602 0.5× 325 0.4× 1.3k 2.0× 72 0.1× 451 1.7× 66 2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William C. Frederick

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Frederick, William C.. (2016). Commentary: Corporate Social Responsibility: Deep Roots, Flourishing Growth, Promising Future. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 129–129. 30 indexed citations
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Frederick, William C.. (2013). The CSR Needle in the CR Haystack. Business and Professional Ethics Journal. 32(2). 131–136. 1 indexed citations
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Kuznar, Lawrence A. & William C. Frederick. (2006). Simulating the effect of nepotism on political risk taking and social unrest. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. 13(1). 29–37. 10 indexed citations
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Frederick, William C.. (2004). The Evolutionary Firm and Its Moral (Dis)Contents. 4. 145–176. 5 indexed citations
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Swanson, Diane L. & William C. Frederick. (2001). CAMPAIGN AACSB: ARE BUSINESS SCHOOLS COMPLICIT IN CORPORATE CORRUPTION?. 10(2). 151–165. 16 indexed citations
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Frederick, William C., David M. Wasieleski, & James Weber. (2000). Values, Ethics, and Moral Reasoning among Healthcare Professionals: A Survey. HEC Forum. 12(2). 124–140. 9 indexed citations
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Frederick, William C.. (1999). An Appalachian Coda:. Business & Society. 38(2). 206–211. 1 indexed citations
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Frederick, William C.. (1998). Moving to CSR. Business & Society. 37(1). 40–59. 107 indexed citations
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Frederick, William C.. (1998). One Voice? or Many? A Response to Ellen Klein. Business Ethics Quarterly. 8(3). 575–579. 10 indexed citations
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Frederick, William C.. (1997). Financing change: The financial community, eco-efficiency, and sustainable development. The Journal of Socio-Economics. 26(4). 459–463. 25 indexed citations
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Frederick, William C.. (1995). Values, Nature, and Culture in the American Corporation. 147 indexed citations
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Frederick, William C.. (1994). General Introduction: The Elusive Boundary Between Fact And Value. Business Ethics Quarterly. 4(2). 111–112. 7 indexed citations
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Frederick, William C.. (1991). The moral authority of transnational corporate codes. Journal of Business Ethics. 10(3). 165–177. 87 indexed citations
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Frederick, William C.. (1986). Commentary on Vogel. California Management Review. 28(2). 152–153. 5 indexed citations
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Frederick, William C., et al.. (1984). Pulmonary cavitations in Mycobacterium kansasii: distinctions from M. tuberculosis. American Journal of Roentgenology. 143(1). 127–130. 17 indexed citations
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Davis, Keith, William C. Frederick, & Robert L. Blomstrom. (1980). Business and Society: Concepts and Policy Issues. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 21 indexed citations
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Blake, David Haven, et al.. (1976). Social auditing: Evaluating the impact of corporate programs. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 30 indexed citations
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Frederick, William C.. (1974). Spontaneous Rupture of the Liver in Patient Using Contraceptive Pills. Archives of Surgery. 108(1). 93–93. 21 indexed citations
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Searle, C. W., William C. Frederick, & H. J. Garrett. (1973). The influence of surface conditions on the coercive force of SmCo5particles. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 9(3). 164–167. 16 indexed citations
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Frederick, William C., et al.. (1969). Fogarty embolectomy catheters in portal vein thrombosis.. PubMed. 69(15). 2157–8. 5 indexed citations

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