Journal Publication Records as a Measure of Research Performance in Industrial Relations

Gordon, Michael E.; Purvis, Julia E.

doi:10.1177/001979399104500114

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“…5 Bibliometric data are indicators of research activity and knowledge created through the application of mathematics and statistical methods to book and other forms of communication (Pritchard, 1969). Bibliometric analysis of patterns of scholarly research in a variety of fields including strategic management (Park and Gordon, 1996), economics (Cox and Chung, 1991), finance (Alexander and Mabry, 1994;Borokhovich, Bricker, and Simkins, 1994;Chung and Cox, 1990), industrial relations (Gordon and Purvis, 1991), and crosscultural psychology (Vijver and Lonner, 1995). Bibliometric analysis is used for science, technology, and R&D management by corporations (Franklin and Johnston, 1988;Healy, Rothman, and Hock, 1986) as well as governments (Hicks, 1987;Mombers et al, 1985).…”

Section: Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relative absorptive capacity and interorganizational learning

1998

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Much of the prior research on interorganizational learning has focused on the role of absorptive capacity, a firm's ability to value, assimilate, and utilize new external knowledge. However, this definition of the construct suggests that a firm has an equal capacity to learn from all other organizations. We reconceptualize the firm‐level construct absorptive capacity as a learning dyad‐level construct, relative absorptive capacity. One firm's ability to learn from another firm is argued to depend on the similarity of both firms' (1) knowledge bases, (2) organizational structures and compensation policies, and (3) dominant logics. We then test the model using a sample of pharmaceutical–biotechnology R&D alliances. As predicted, the similarity of the partners' basic knowledge, lower management formalization, research centralization, compensation practices, and research communities were positively related to interorganizational learning. The relative absorptive capacity measures are also shown to have greater explanatory power than the established measure of absorptive capacity, R&D spending. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Relative absorptive capacity and interorganizational learning

1998

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“…Individuals, academic departments, university libraries, and the journals themselves derive some benefit from such studies. Weinstock and Coe (1969), MacMillan and Stern (1987), MacMillan (1991), Gordon and Purvis (1991), and Park and Gordon (1996) intimate the value of journal rankings for evaluating an individual's publication record for tenure and promotion decisions. However, researchers are motivated not only by career issues such as tenure and promotion, but also with finding research outlets which subject their ideas and life's work to peer scrutiny with the goal of having their work evaluated, extended, and supported (or refuted) with the possibility of having a real impact on the world that surrounds them.…”

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A revealed preference study of management journals’ direct influences

1999

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Our study develops and uses a new methodology for analyzing journal citations to recent publications to determine which management journals now have the greatest influence on the field of management. It analyzes the 23637 academic journal references cited in the 1275 articles published in 17 key management journals during 1993 and 1994, focusing on citations to references published up to the modal vintage of 4 years earlier. Most cited as a percentage of all these references was Strategic Management Journal (11%), followed by Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Sciences Quarterly, and Journal of Management—accounting in total for 51 percent of all citations. Strategic Management Journal, whose subfield of strategic management has become a major concern of management in general, has developed as the predominant academic journal influencing the field of management. Our measures of journal influence provide information which can aid management scholars, practitioners, department heads, and university libraries to decide on efficient choices of journals for research and for manuscript submissions, for evaluation, and for subscriptions. Just seven management and social science journals, led by Strategic Management Journal, contain more than half of the cited articles published recently. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…Citation analysis has well known strengths and weaknesses (Todorov & Glanzel, 1988) although most of those pertain to its use in macroanalytic frameworks and not more micro uses. Despite rather harsh criticism at times (MacRoberts & MacRoberts, 1996), efforts to develop methods based on citations that overcome those weaknesses are ongoing (Everett & Pecotich, 1993;Garfield and Welljams-Dorof, 1992;Liu, 1993) and hold considerable promise for the development of a method that would be easy to keep up-to-date and acceptable to knowledgeable scholars in the field (Garfield, 1996, Garfield,1992Gordon & Purvis, 1991;Tahai & Meyer, 1999).…”

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A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Journal Rankings: The Case of Formal Lists

Fleet

McWilliams

Siegel

2000

Journal of Management

122

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This study examines the use of formal rankings of journals by management departments for personnel decision purposes. We posit that the probability of adopting a list of formal rankings is related to a set of characteristics of the department. Few schools have formal lists of journals. Our empirical findings imply that the probability of adopting a list is positively correlated with department size and is inversely correlated with the perceived quality of the department. Considerable variation exists across such lists and across different institutions in the perceptions of the quality of journals. This suggests that, although lists may reduce the level of uncertainty regarding the assessment of research quality by providing explicit targets, lists may also induce faculty members to develop institution-specific human capital. This could reduce faculty mobility and impede career development.

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Journal Publication Records as a Measure of Research Performance in Industrial Relations

Cited by 16 publications

References 16 publications

Relative absorptive capacity and interorganizational learning

Relative absorptive capacity and interorganizational learning

A revealed preference study of management journals’ direct influences

A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Journal Rankings: The Case of Formal Lists

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