Mapping the scholarly development of strategic management

Research output: Journal Publications and ReviewsRGC 21 - Publication in refereed journalpeer-review

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)101-110
Journal / PublicationJournal of Information Science
Volume27
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 2001

Abstract

In an effort to move from speculative to scientific discourse, a key meta-issue in strategic management is addressed by systematically tracing the intellectual development of this sub-discipline. The flow of scholarly knowledge is mapped over time by combining multivariate statistics and other techniques. Observed citation frequencies are fitted to a chi-square model of importance, receptivity and similarity, while cluster analysis is employed to map changes in journal relationships over time. The results contradict at least one widely espoused and previously uncontested assertion, by revealing that the strategic management sub-discipline has evolved from a receptor to a transmitter of interdisciplinary knowledge and entered the mainstream of social science. The study demonstrates the potential to shed objective light on the social construction of knowledge and to address important issues in other scholarly disciplines.

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Mapping the scholarly development of strategic management. / Martinsons, Maris G.; Everett, James E.; Chan, Kathy.
In: Journal of Information Science, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2001, p. 101-110.

Research output: Journal Publications and ReviewsRGC 21 - Publication in refereed journalpeer-review