Going complex or going easy? The impact of research questions on citations
Angelo M. Solarino,
Elizabeth L. Rose,
Cristian Luise
Abstract:The growing need for academic impact requires researchers to develop and address important ideas. In this paper, we analyze how theory has been framed and operationalized within international business scholarship, which has a long tradition of producing research that accounts jointly for multiple research contexts and levels of analysis. We focus on two key aspects of published articles: the complexity of their research questions and how the research questions are translated into testable hypotheses. We furthe… Show more
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