Ring a Ring o’ Roses: Quality Journals and Gamesmanship in Management Studies*

By Stuart Macdonald, J. Kam. 2007

289 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Statistics and Probability

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How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Management Information Systems

1. Marc Orlitzky
2. Erik Gonzalez‐Mulé
3. Hugh Willmott

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Marc Orlitzky
2. Ernest H. O’Boyle
3. Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson
4. Erik Gonzalez‐Mulé
5. Matthew Bamber
6. J. McCormack
7. Hugh Willmott
8. G. Banks

In Statistics and Probability

1. Erik Gonzalez‐Mulé
2. Marc Orlitzky
3. Ernest H. O’Boyle
4. Hugh Willmott
5. G. Banks
6. David Knights
7. C. Clarke

Citations in the corpus

• Institutional Logics in the Study of Organizations: The Social Construction of the Relationship between Corporate Social and Financial Performance (2011, background): “…theory of institutional logics as it acknowledged the fact that academic publication decisions are collective efforts and embedded in often politically charged, yet always complex social processes (Beyer et al., 1995; Gans & Shepherd, 1994; Huff, 1999; Macdonald & Kam, 2007; Peters & Ceci, 1982).”
• Journal list fetishism and the perversion of scholarship: reactivity and the ABS list (2011, background): “When, by dint of their lack of relevant training and/or gamesmanship (Macdonald and Kam, 2007), work imitating the established tradition is rejected by the highly ranked target journals, more lowly ranked alternatives are flooded with this counterfeit work.”
• The Chrysalis Effect (2017, background): “Selection as well as promotion and tenure committees may rely in part on a minimum number of needed publications (Buchheit, Collins, & Reitenga, 2002; MacDonald & Kam, 2007).”
• Occupational limbo, transitional liminality and permanent liminality: New conceptual distinctions (2017, background): “…contributed to a strong sense of being ‘stuck’ (Fraher and Gabriel, 2014) and ‘forgotten’ (Capps and Carlin, 2010; Pitstick, 2007), particularly as a clear and stable career pathway has been found to be important for academics (e.g. Clarke and Knights, 2015; Macdonald and Kam, 2007; Sparkes, 2007).”