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Business Strategy and Innovation

Business Strategy and Innovation is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 35k research works in it since 1950. 11.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of 'coopetition' - a strategy where entities cooperate and compete simultaneously within business networks. The focus is on innovation, collaboration with competitors, value creation, and managing tensions in coopetitive relationships. The papers discuss the implications of coopetition for small and medium-sized enterprises, technological innovation, strategic alliances, and knowledge sharing.

  • Coopetition
  • Business Networks
  • Innovation
  • Collaboration
  • Competition
  • Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
  • Technological Innovation
  • Strategic Alliances
  • Value Creation
  • Knowledge Sharing
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Business Strategy and Innovation

Which countries lead Business Strategy and Innovation research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (521 and 479 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 521 works
  2. 2 China 479 works
  3. 3 France 357 works
  4. 4 Germany 230 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 181 works
  6. 6 Poland 180 works
  7. 7 Brazil 160 works
  8. 8 Russia 156 works
  9. 9 Italy 127 works
  10. 10 India 120 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 20.7%China: 19.1%France: 14.2%Germany: 9.2%6 others listed: 36.8%21%largest
United States521 · 20.7%China479 · 19.1%France357 · 14.2%Germany230 · 9.2%6 others listed924 · 36.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Business Strategy and Innovation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Business Strategy and Innovation research, followed by Copenhagen Business School and Université de Lorraine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 62 works
  2. 2 Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 25 works
  3. 3 Université de LorraineFrance 16 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 15 works
  5. 5 Wroclaw University of Economics and BusinessPoland 14 works
  6. 6 Université de MontpellierFrance 14 works
  7. 7 Université de LyonFrance 14 works
  8. 8 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 14 works
  9. 9 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 14 works
  10. 10 University of Beira InteriorPortugal 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Business Strategy and Innovation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Business Strategy and Innovation include Edward L. Deci, Marko Sarstedt and Christian M. Ringle.

  1. 1 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  2. 2 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  3. 3 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  4. 4 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations
  5. 5 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations
  6. 6 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  7. 7 Jeffrey L. Cummings United States 176k citations
  8. 8 Kathleen M. Eisenhardt United States 169k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Business Strategy and Innovation?

The most cited paper in Business Strategy and Innovation is "Dynamic capabilities and strategic management" (David J. Teece, Gary Paul Pisano, Amy Shuen, 1997), with 32,830 citations. Next come "A resource‐based view of the firm" (25,311) and "Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning" (21,902).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Dynamic capabilities and strategic management David J. Teece, Gary Paul Pisano, Amy Shuen · Strategic Management Journal Aug 1997 32,830
2 A resource‐based view of the firm Birger Wernerfelt · Strategic Management Journal Apr 1984 25,311
3 Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning James G. March · Organization Science Feb 1991 21,902
4 Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors Michael E. Porter 1980 16,808
5 Toward a knowledge‐based theory of the firm Robert M. Grant · Strategic Management Journal Dec 1996 16,054
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Business Strategy and Innovation research done?

The largest centres of Business Strategy and Innovation research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 83 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 75 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 73 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 40 works
  5. 5 WarsawPoland 40 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 38 works
  7. 7 KyivUkraine 32 works
  8. 8 CopenhagenDenmark 29 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 28 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 27 works
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Where is the best place to study Business Strategy and Innovation?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Vaasa, Copenhagen Business School and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 20.5%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Vrije Universiteit A…University of VaasaCopenhagen Business …Université de Montpe…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of VaasaFinland 73.241.1%48.0×9 +18.8%
2Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 65.718.8%42.6×25 -36.2%
3Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 62.641.6%5.6×8 +15.9%
4Université de MontpellierFrance 53.414.8%11.7×14 +1.8%
5University of Beira InteriorPortugal 48.88.4%33.4×13 +39.8%
6Bocconi UniversityItaly 48.314.8%32.4×10 -15.0%
7Université de LorraineFrance 44.91.7%11.5×16 +37.7%
8RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 43.530.1%3.1×9 +18.0%
9Universidade do Vale do Rio dos SinosBrazil 41.022.1%23.5×10 +2.8%
10University of AucklandNew Zealand 40.411.6%4.5×9 +96.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Business Strategy and Innovation, country by country

Is Business Strategy and Innovation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Business Strategy and Innovation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Business Strategy and Innovation0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Business Strategy and Innovation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Business Strategy and Innovation11.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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