Abstract
This article examines the influence of economics on business research using citation data. The share of economics in citations from business is 10.78% until 1995, but only 6.95% for 1996-2003. Four potential explanations for this decline are discussed: interdisciplinary spillover of research is slower than within a discipline; the increasing use of mathematics in economics made economics less useful for business scholars; economics articles are by their nature more long-lived than business articles; business has grown recently more quickly than economics. The data support the second and fourth explanations. Different research spillover occurs but lasts no more than two years.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 851-869 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Journal of Industrial Economics |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Dec 2009 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Accounting
- General Business, Management and Accounting
- Economics and Econometrics