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

Update and Extension of Prior Research

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  • This study measures and ranks the productivity of academic institutions and faculty members based on the number of publications appearing in the top three core international business journals between 2001 and 2009.

  • This research serves as a useful update and extension of studies by Morrison and Inkpen (1991), Inkpen and Beamish (1994), and Kumar and Kundu (2004), which examined the top three international business journals, namely,Management International Review,Journal of International Business Studies, andJournal of World Business.

  • Copenhagen Business School, University of Miami, and University of Leeds (among institutions), and Yadong Luo, Peter J. Buckley, and Alain Verbeke (among authors) occupy the top three positions.

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Notes

  1. The faculty members of each campus of a university were separated. For example, an article written by a faculty member affiliated to the University of Texas at Arlington was credited to the University of Texas at Arlington and not to the University of Texas at Dallas. Publications often mention the affiliation of authors in different forms. For example, while the affiliation of authors William Newburry and Liuba Belkin is shown as Rutgers Business School in Newburry et al. (2006), that of author Farok J. Contractor is shown as the Department of Management and Global business, Rutgers University, in Contractor et al. (2005). Similarly, the affiliation of Mike Wright is mentioned as Business School, Nottingham University in Strange et al.2009, while that of Chengqi Wang is Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham in Wang et al. (2009). In this research, no distinction was made between (a) University of Leeds and Leeds University, (b) Rutgers Business School and Rutgers University, (c) University of Nottingham and Nottingham University (d) Bocconi University and Universita Luigi Bocconi, and so on. To be accurate, the appearance of institutions such as University of London, London Business School, London School of Economics and Political Science, and King’s College were classified under one common institution—University of London.

  2. If any publication mentioned that a particular author was affiliated to more than one institution (e.g., John Cantwell’s affiliation to Rutgers Business School and University of Reading in Cantwell et al.2004), then necessary deductions were made to compute each institution’s adjusted appearance.

  3. As of December 2010, author Klaus E. Meyer is affiliated with the University of Bath, UK. The affiliation of other top authors has been mentioned previously.

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    Somnath Lahiri

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Lahiri, S., Kumar, V. Ranking International Business Institutions and Faculty Members Using Research Publication as the Measure. Manag Int Rev 52, 317–340 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-011-0116-x

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