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Abstracts
Abstract
How were paper bastions added to the walls of academic citadels? By mapping the evolution of the coauthorship network in 180 management journals from 1991 to 2009, we identify an elite league of business schools that retained dominance despite the research community’s significant growth. The elite universities maintain their prominence through a loop of reinforcement involving the peer review process and third-party ranking bodies, though the perceived quality of the papers published was declining as measured by the percentage of overall citations. Leading U.S. universities dominate top journal publications, while new local poles of management research among European and Asian universiteis emerged.
Keywords:
- Business school ranking,
- business research,
- coauthorship,
- citation analysis,
- social network analysis
Résumé
Comment les citadelles académiques se construisent-elles ? En décrivant l’évolution des réseaux de co-autorat de 180 journaux en management entre 1991 et 2009, nous identifions la formation d’une ligue « élite » dont les acteurs restent dominants malgré une forte croissance de la communauté de recherché en gestion. Cette élite maintient sa domination en s’appuyant sur des mécanismes d’auto-renforcement entre le système de revue par les pairs dans les journaux scientifiques et de classement par des tiers influents et cela malgré la diminution progressive du nombre de citation reçue. Les universités américaines qui forment l’élite dominent les journaux scientifiques les mieux cotés, même si de nouveaux poles émergent en Asie et en Europe.
Mots-clés :
- classement des business school,
- Recherche en gestion,
- co-autorat,
- analyse des citations,
- analyse des réseaux
Resumen
¿Cómo se incorporaron los bastiones de la investigación a las principales instituciones académicas? Cartografiando la evolución de la red de coautorías de 180 publicaciones sobre gestión y dirección de 1991 a 2009, hemos identificado una liga de élite de escuelas de negocios que se mantuvo dominante a pesar del significativo crecimiento de la comunidad investigadora. Las universidades de élite mantienen su prominencia utilizando un circuito de refuerzo que implica procesos de revisión entre pares y organismos exteriores de clasificación, aunque la calidad percibida de los artículos publicados fue declinando según las mediciones del porcentaje de citas globales. Las universidades estadounidenses líderes dominan los primeros puestos de las publicaciones, al tiempo que emergen nuevas áreas locales de investigación en gestión en Europa y Asia.
Palabras clave:
- clasificación de escuelas de negocios,
- investigación empresarial,
- coautoría,
- análisis de citas,
- red social de análisis
Appendices
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