Business and management in China: A review of empirical research in leading international journals

Abstract

China's growing economic importance has led to a significant increase in the volume of empirical research about business and management in this country during the last few years. This study reviews the 180 empirical papers focusing on the Chinese context that were published in 12 leading international academic journals between 2000 and 2005. A summary of the methodologies used and the topics analysed is offered, along with various rankings of journals, authors, institutions, and papers.

Ranking International Business Institutions and Faculty Members Using Research Publication as the Measure

“…in measuring and ranking the contributions of individual faculty members, this study has extended previous research. Specifically, the inclusion of total and adjusted scores of faculty members as authors of iB publications has enabled providing a relatively more complete picture of scholarly productivity across numerous institutions around the world (lahiri 2011; Quer et al 2007;Xu et al 2008).…”

“…the inclusion of these three established journals would enable better representation of IB research publications and thereby assist in generalizing various findings. Since the publication of study by Kumar and Kundu (2004), several studies have considered these three journals together when conducting ranking-based research of publications appearing in leading IB journals (Griffith et al 2008;Lahiri 2011;Quer et al 2007;Xu et al 2008). We acknowledge that iB research has permeated many other journals in addition to MiR, JiBs, and JWB and recent studies (e.g., trevino et al 2010) have adopted the approach of focusing on iB articles published in a range of premier business and management journals in their ranking of institutions and scholars.…”

“…if any article was co-authored by more than one author from the same institution, the institution was credited with more than one appearance (i.e., 2 or more, as the case may be). Following prior research (Coudounaris et al 2009;Kumar and Kundu 2004;Quer et al 2007), no distinction was made regarding the order of appearance of institutions-each appearance counted as one credit. Further, no distinction was made based on the journal name-all the three journals were assumed to be equally important.…”

“…in addition to total, raw or absolute counts, most recent ranking-based studies employ adjusted measures or counts that take into account over-crediting contributions by institutions and authors (coudounaris et al 2009;Lahiri 2011;Quer et al 2007;Xu et al 2008). For example, if two faculty members from the same institution contribute to a particular article, then the procedure for attaining total count would credit two points to the same institution.…”

Institutions, resources, and entry strategies in emerging economies

“…Finally, by amassing a primary survey database from four diverse but relatively underexplored countries and combining such data with archival data, we extend the geographic reach of empirical research on emerging economies. Earlier studies of entry in emerging economies have concentrated on Central and Eastern Europe (Meyer, 2001;Brouthers and Brouthers, 2003;Meyer and Peng, 2005) and China (Tse, Pan, and Au, 1997;Luo and Peng, 1999;Quer, Claver, and Rienda, 2007). Never before have foreign entrants in four diverse emerging economies been systematically studied via a common research design and survey instrument as we have done in this study.…”