Robert Simons (economist)
{{short description|American economist}}
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Robert Simons is an American economist currently the Charles R. Williams professor at Harvard Business School. He did his Ph.D. at McGill University{{Cite web |url=http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6556 |title=Robert Simons |publisher=hbs.edu |access-date=April 27, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=http://hbswk.hbs.edu/Pages/browse.aspx?HBSFaculty=rsimons |title=Search |publisher=hbs.edu |access-date=April 27, 2017}}
Simons is also an author of cases used in management education. He has featured among the top 40 case authors consistently, since the list was first published in 2016 by The Case Centre. Simons ranked 2nd in 2019/20,{{Cite web|title=Bestselling author 2019/20: no 2 Robert Simons|url=https://www.thecasecentre.org/educators/casemethod/bestsellingauthors/2020/2-RobertSimons|access-date=2020-11-10|website=thecasecentre.org|language=en}} 4th in 2018/19{{Cite web|title=Top 40 Bestselling Case Authors 2018/19|url=https://www.thecasecentre.org/educators/casemethod/bestsellingauthors/2019/intro|access-date=2020-06-18|website=thecasecentre.org|language=en}} and 2017/18,{{Cite web|title=Top 40 Bestselling Case Authors 2017/18|url=https://www.thecasecentre.org/educators/casemethod/bestsellingauthors/2018/intro|access-date=2020-06-18|website=thecasecentre.org|language=en}} 11th in 2016/17{{Cite web|title=Our Top 40 Bestselling Case Authors 2016/17|url=https://www.thecasecentre.org/educators/casemethod/bestsellingauthors/2017/intro/|access-date=2020-06-18|website=thecasecentre.org|language=en}} and 14th in 2015/16.{{Cite web|title=Top 40 Bestselling Case Authors 2015/16|url=https://www.thecasecentre.org/educators/casemethod/bestsellingauthors/2016/intro/|access-date=2020-06-18|website=thecasecentre.org|language=en}}
Books and research papers
Simons' books and research papers have been cited thousands of times according to Google Scholar.{{Cite web|title=Robert Simons|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3pQ2F0UAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao|access-date=2020-11-10|website=scholar.google.com}}
His top cited books and research papers include:
- 1987: Accounting control systems and business strategy: an empirical analysis, Accounting, organizations and society 12 (4), Pages 357–374.{{Cite journal|last=Simons|first=Robert|date=1987-01-01|title=Accounting control systems and business strategy: An empirical analysis|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0361-3682%2887%2990024-9|journal=Accounting, Organizations and Society|language=en|volume=12|issue=4|pages=357–374|doi=10.1016/0361-3682(87)90024-9|issn=0361-3682}}
- 1990: The role of management control systems in creating competitive advantage: new perspectives, Readings in accounting for management control, Pages 622–645.{{Citation|last=Simons|first=Robert|title=The role of management control systems in creating competitive advantage: new perspectives|date=1992|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7138-8_28|work=Readings in Accounting for Management Control|pages=622–645|editor-last=Emmanuel|editor-first=Clive|place=Boston, MA|publisher=Springer US|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-1-4899-7138-8_28|isbn=978-1-4899-7138-8|access-date=2020-11-10|editor2-last=Otley|editor2-first=David|editor3-last=Merchant|editor3-first=Kenneth}}
- 1994: Levers of control: How managers use innovative control systems to drive strategic renewal, Harvard Business Press{{Cite book|last=Simons|first=Robert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FWk_XQK3nxIC&q=info:ChHfH4LZHZ8J:scholar.google.com&pg=PR1|title=Levers of Control: How Managers Use Innovative Control Systems to Drive Strategic Renewal|date=1994-11-01|publisher=Harvard Business Press|isbn=978-1-4221-6067-1|language=en}}
- 1994: How new top managers use control systems as levers of strategic renewal, Strategic management journal 15 (3), Pages 169–189.{{Cite journal|last=Simons|first=Robert|date=1994|title=How new top managers use control systems as levers of strategic renewal|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/smj.4250150301|journal=Strategic Management Journal|language=en|volume=15|issue=3|pages=169–189|doi=10.1002/smj.4250150301|issn=1097-0266}}
- 1995: Control in an Age of Empowerment. Harvard business review 73 (2), Pages 80–88.{{Cite journal|last=Simons|first=R.|date=1995|title=Control in an age of empowerment.|url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=2261810|journal=Harvard Business Review|language=en|volume=73|issue=2|issn=0017-8012}}
- 2000: Performance measurement and control systems for implementing strategy.{{Cite web|title=Alianza SIDALC|url=http://www.sidalc.net/cgi-bin/wxis.exe/?IsisScript=iicacr.xis&expresion=ORGANIZACION&cantidad=50&formato=2&proxdoc=101&ascendente=&tc=|access-date=2020-11-10|website=www.sidalc.net}}
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