Material on the Context of Organizational Research and on Organizational Science as a Discipline
 

Material on Journal and Institutional Rankings

• Bill Starbuck's Home Page, including Citation Rankings of Academic Journals
• The Anne-Wil Harzing/Bradford University Management Journals Ranking List
• Mirror site for the Bradford list, by subject and by journal
• More Journal Rankings
• Yet More Journal Rankings
• Marketing Journal rankings
• Zickar & Highhouse on journal rankings in industrial/organizational psychology
• Katz & Boal on Entrepreneurship Journal Rankings.  Another version here
• Background info, including a link to the paper, for Trieschman et al’s study of Business School Research Performance
• A page on University Rankings (but see also the Caution and Controversy page)
• Business Research Websource (B-Schools ranked by journal publication).  Closed for maintenance "until mid-May 2002".
• Tom Coupé ranks Economists and Economics Departments
• Diamond & Graham on How Should we Rate Research Universities?

• A Publisher's Perspective on the Peer Review Process
• Links on Peer Review and Electronic Publishing
• Another Publisher on Peer Review
• Fiona Godlee’s slideshow on Peer Review, Editing and Ethics (in medical science)
• Allen Lee on Reviewing a Manuscript for Publication (Good on how to assess a paper as well as showing you something about how the reviewing process works)
• A brief guide to critically reviewing journal articles
• Stephen Gottfredson on Evaluating Psychological Research Reports
• Jerry Davis, Martha Feldman, Stephen Raudenbush, and Jim Walsh - "So How Do I Review Articles: Panel on the Craft of Article Reviewing"
• Nicolaj Siggelkow on Who reads my paper anyways?
• Ozzie Jones on his reflections on the Publication Process
• Dobers and others on Publishing in an Emerging Field
• Academy of Management Journal Reviewer Guidelines
• Online Seminar on Surviving the Journal Review Process
• Juan Miguel Campanario’s papers on Science Communication, including a number of critiques of the scientific publication process
• Robert J. MacCoun on Biases in the Interpretation and Use of Research Results.  A pdf version.
• Daniel Hamermesh on The Young Economist's Guide to Professional Etiquette
• Eugene Garfield on Refereeing and Peer Review, Part 1
• Eugene Garfield on Refereeing and Peer Review, Part 2
• Michael Mahoney’s Publication Prejudices: An Experimental Study of Confirmatory Bias in the Peer Review System
• Steve Fuller's CyberConference on Peer Review in the Social Sciences
• Morris Holbrook’s Note on Sadomasochism in the Review Process
• Robert Merton on The Matthew Effect in Science
• Another Merton paper on the Matthew Effect
• Scott Armstrong’s papers on Scientific Method and Peer Review in Marketing and Management
• Deirdre McCloskey on the Rhetoric of Economics
• Tom Coupé’s Home Page (lots of stuff on the context of the economics discipline)
• Neil Moreland's Writing for Publication

The Research Assessment Exercise, The Tenure System, and Other Evaluation Metrics

• The 1992 Research Assessment Exercise
• The 1996 Research Assessment Exercise
• A link to a paper on the 1996 Business and Management Studies Research Assessment Exercise
• The 2002 Research Assessment Exercise
• Guardian Education pages on the RAE
• 2002 RAE Panel’s overview verdict on the Business & Management submissions
• 2002 RAE Panel’s overview verdict on the Accounting & Finance submissions
• 2002 RAE results, Business & Management
• 2002 RAE results, Accounting and Finance
• A Publisher's Perspective on the Research Assessment Exercise
• A seminar report on the Intellectual Consequences of the Research Assessment Exercise
• Kansas State University’s Department of Management Staff Evaluation pages (interesting insights on the tenure etc. process in US universities)
• Richard McKenzie in Defense of Academic Tenure
• Robert McGee and Walter Block on Academic Tenure: An Economic Critique
• Cathy Ann Trower on the Trouble with Tenure

 

• Karl Weick’s 1996 ASQ paper (not original format) “Drop Your Tools: An Allegory for Organization Studies”
• Astley and Van de Ven’s 1983 ASQ paper on Central Perspectives and Debates in Organization Theory
• Andreas Georg Scherer on Modes of Explanation in Organization Theory
• Stewart Clegg on The Bounds of Rationality – Power/History/Imagination – in Organization Theory
• de Cock and Chia on Diversity in/and/of Organization Theory
• Peter Engholm on Modernist and Postmodernist views of Management Science
• A Summary of the Report of the Commission on Management Research (the “Bain Report”, published by the Economics and Social Research Council in January 1994).
• John Kmetz’s Consumer Guide to Business and Management Research
• Jeff Pfeffer on Barriers to the Advancement of Organizational Science
• Loizos Heracleous on Inter-Domain Knowledge Transfer in Organization Science
• Twomey et al on the Interface between Business and Business Schools
• Kaghan & Nelson's Tower of Babel Paper (on paradigms and on discipline/context)
• A Publisher's Perspective on "Good" Management Research
• Lars Engwall on Management Research as a Fragmented Adhocracy
• British Accounting Association monograph on the Relevance of Accounting Research
• Brennan & Turnbull on Relevance
• Some background to the Brennan & Turnbull paper
• Scott Moss on Relevance, Realism and Rigour: A Third Way for Social and Economic Research
• Anne-Wil Harzing on Referencing Errors in Academic Writing
• Scott Armstrong on the Discovery and Communication of Important Marketing Findings
• Another Armstrong paper on the contribution of marketing science
• Claudia Harris on the Ideology of Management Research
• Ken Ehrensahl on Critical Management Studies and American Business School Culture
• Andy Van de Ven on Professional Science for a Professional School.  Another version here
• The “Virtual Camp” of the Academy of Management’s Management Education and Development Division.  There is an online seminar with Van de Ven on the Professional Science Paper (login as guest).
• Andy Van de Ven on "The Buzzing, Blooming, Confusing World of Organization and Management Theory: A View from Lake Wobegon University"
• McLaughlin & Thorpe on Lost Voices in Management Research

Management Fads and Fashions

• Charles-Clemens Rüling on Theories of (management?) fashion: The contributions of Veblen, Simmel, Blumer, and Bourdieu
• Raub and Rüling on Fashion in Knowledge Management
• Simon Alcouffe on Discourse and diffusion lifecycles of management fashions
• Robert Birnbaum on the Lifecycle of Academic Management Fads
• Betsy Blunsdon on Consultants and the Propagation of Management Discourse
• Carson, Carson, Lanier and Judice on Management Fad Adoption
• Kolb and Wolk on Management Fashion in New Zealand

The Future of Management (etc.) Research: Emerging Themes, New Directions, Future Trends

• Online Seminar on Future Trends in Organization Studies (incl. Karl Weick)
• Andy Van de Ven on the Strategic Direction of the (US) Academy of Management
• Andy Van de Ven's slides
• Richard Whitley on the Restructuring of Knowledge Production
• Ulf Sandström, Olle Persson & Mats Benner on The University And The New Research Landscape
• Tina Hedmo, Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson and Linda Wedlin on The Emergence of a European Regulatory Field of Management Education
• Jetta Frost and Margit Osterloh on Dialogue Devices: Bridging between “Mode 1” and “Mode 2” Knowledge Production.  Their tables and figure.
• Joan van Aken on Mode 2 Knowledge Production in Management
• Søren Barlebo Wenneberg on Knowledge Utilisation and Management Research
• Michael Gibbons on the Developing System of Knowledge Production

Business Academics and Academic Work, University/Society Relationships, etc

• Danieli & Thomas on Management Educators
• Dennis Fox on The Pressure to Publish
• A follow-up paper from Dennis Fox
• Gersick et al on Professional Relationships in Academic Life
• Three short papers on Disciplines, Cultures and Academic Institutions
• Comparative Perspectives on the Changing Academic Workplace (ed. Philip G Altbach) warning – huge file!
• Henry Miller on Managing Academics in Canada and the United Kingdom
• Bruce Macfarlane’s paper on Business Academics
• Jerold Zimmerman on Can American Business Schools Survive?

Business and Management (etc.) Journals and Professional Associations

• A list of Business and Management-related journals, with links
• Another list of journals, with links
• List of Psychology Journals Online
• Association of Business Schools (ABS) Homepage
• US equivalent (AACSB) of the ABS
• Academy of Management
• European Academy of Management
• British Academy of Management

See also the ORG-SCIENCE email network I set up recently.  Why not join and make a contribution?

Please email me if you want to suggest any additions!