One of us (Buckley) received a call from a colleague who could best be described as crestfallen. Buckley had known this professor for well over ten years as this professor had completed his PhD with one of Buckley’s dearest friends. The reason the colleague felt this way was owing to a recent conversation he had with an administrator (dean, associate dean or department chair in the United States of America) in his business school in which he was told ‘you don’t publish in journals we value around here’. Buckley asked where this had come from and was told by the colleague that it was due to the notion that he did not publish in the journals that were at the top of the journal list of his college. Buckley tried to assuage his colleague’s negative emotions by telling him that he had a fine record and some really well cited publications. Buckley hoped he felt better, but the conversation forced us to think of that most recent shibboleth that we are increasingly witnessing in business schools around the world today – the dreaded journal list – which outlines the quality of publications in the absence of reading said publications. Journal lists have been with us for a number of years but their importance continues to increase as we rely on them as a crutch to determining meaningful scholarship.
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Show ItemsFront Matter
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Show ItemsPART I: The Publishing Process
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PART II: Resolving Practical Key Issues
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SECTION II.I: Becoming a scholar
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SECTION II.II: Getting your methods right
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SECTION II.III: Navigating the review process
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SECTION II.IV: Understanding the journals
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Show ItemsPART III: Publishing Across Disciplinary Boundaries
