Abstract
This article analyzes the impact of economics on management by examining citations of 71 management journals. AER, JPE, Econometrica and QJE have the highest impact. Industrial organization journals also have a particularly large impact. The share of economics in management citations drops from 9.91 percent until 1995 to 5.70 percent for 1996-2005. Three possible explanations for this decrease are analyzed: economics research became more mathematical; because management is a younger discipline, it grew faster than economics in quantity and quality of research; and interdisciplinary spillover of research is slower than the spillover within a discipline. Only the second explanation is supported by the data.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 667-675 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization |
Volume | 68 |
Issue number | 3-4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Dec 2008 |
Keywords
- Academic impact
- Citation analysis
- Economics journals
- Management
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics and Econometrics
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management