Co‐Authorship in Management and Organizational Studies: An Empirical and Network Analysis*

Abstract

In recent decades there has been growing interest in the nature and scale of scientific collaboration. Studies into co-authorship have taken two different approaches. The first one attempts to analyse the reasons why authors collaborate and the consequences of such decision (Laband and Tollison, 2000). The second approach is based on the idea that co-authorship creates a social network of researchers (Barabási et al., 2002;Moody, 2004;Newman, 2001). In this study we have carried out an exploratory analysis of co-authorships in the field of management from the two aforementioned approaches. The results obtained show a growing tendency of the co-authored papers in the field of management, similar to what can be observed in other disciplines. Our study analyses some of the underpinning factors, which have been highlighted in the literature, explaining this tendency. Thus, the progressive quantitative character of research and the influence of the collaboration on the articles' impact are enhanced. The network analysis permits the exploration of the peculiarities of the management in comparison with other fields of knowledge, as well as the existing linkages between the most central and prominent authors within this discipline.

Exploring Organizational Communication (Micro) History Through Network Connections

“…In many ways, we attempted to model our project after this effort. Additionally, scholars have used networks to explore the history of English 13 , international relations 14 , Marketing 15 , and management and organization studies 16 . In line with the current study's aims, research demonstrates that networks can be used to discover a field's "peculiarities" in terms of why authors collaborate, lineages between authors, and how collaboration affects and is affected by journal outlet selection.…”

“…Previous studies have demonstrated that coauthoring improves the quality of submissions 28 , and increases the probability of acceptance. Furthermore, acceptance and allocation of editorial space is influenced by the affiliations among authors, editors, and coeditors, which begins in graduate school and continues in current employment 29,30,31 . Analyzing the preliminary data we have put together an initial network map of collaboration.…”

O Processo Editorial nos Periódicos e Dicas para a Publicação

“…Primeiro, significa a validação dos seus trabalhos, dado que os artigos publicados em periódicos com revisão pelos pares são considerados certified knowledge (Miller, 2006;Acedo, Barroso, Casanueva, & Galán, 2006). Segundo, é pela publicação que se dissemina o novo conhecimento gerado (Bedeian, 2004;Gondim, 2004;Miller, 2006;Elson & Brouard, 2012).…”

“…Assim, não é estranho que vários autores, em diversas disciplinas, se tenham debruçado sobre diferentes facetas da publicação científica, focando aspectos como as dificuldades de publicação (Serra, Fiates & Ferreira, 2008), as redes de coautoria (Barabási;Jeong;Néda;Ravasz;Schubert & Vicsek, 2002;Moody, 2004;Acedo et al, 2006), o que fazer para aumentar a probabilidade de conseguir publicar (Moody, 2004;Sparrowe & Mayer, 2011;Geletkanycz & Tepper, 2012;Zhang & Shaw, 2012), a rejeição (Gans & Shepherd, 1994;Beyer, Chanove & Fox, 1995;Byrne, 2000), as perspectivas dos revisores (Singh, 2003;Swanson, 2004) e dos editores (Radford, Smillie, Wilson, R. & Grace, 1999;Pinho, 2005), os riscos à saúde da carreira do pesquisador (De Meis, Velloso, Lannes, Carmo & De Meis, 2003), o produtivismo (Sguissardi & Silva Jr., 2009), a relevância e rigor da produção científica em Administração (Mascarenhas, Zambaldi, & de Moraes, 2011), as taxas de aceitação dos artigos nos periódicos (Sugimoto, Larivière, Ni & Cronin, 2013), a revisão pelos pares (Armstrong, 1997;Byrne, 2000;Dahdouh-Guebas, Ahimbisibwe, Van Moll & Koedam, 2003;Miller, 2006;Blackburn & Hakel, 2006;Raelin, 2008) e a rejeição direta ou desk rejection pelos editores (Craig, 2010;Ahlstrom, 2010).…”

A co-authorship network analysis on mathematics education scholars

“…또한 공동출판을 통 하여 후속적으로 기존 관계의 강화 또는 새로운 공동출 판 관계의 형성으로 이루어질 수도 있다 (Acedo et al, 2006). 즉 공동출판에 참여하는 연구자들 간의 사회적 관계의 구성이 현재 연구 자체는 물론 그 후의 연구 활 동, 나아가 해당 학문분야의 연구 활동 전반에 영향을 줄 수 있다는 추론도 가능해진다 (최영훈, 이강춘, 2009) …”