What are the correlates of interdisciplinary research impact? The case of corporate governance research

William Q. Judge, Thomas Weber, Maureen I. Muller-Kahle

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Abstract

We explore the concept of interdisciplinary research impact and better understand what factors might be associated with it. Using the field of corporate governance research as a case study and linking our research impact concept to a novel measure of scholarly citation rates, we seek to understand why some corporate governance scholars are cited more than others. We first developed a comprehensive ranking of the top-100 scholars cited for their research in corporate governance and then compared that "high-impact" group with scholars who had published governance research that was not yet cited. We hypothesized that indicators from the social network perspective would be predictive of interdisciplinary research impact. Our data largely supported our hypotheses using this new and improved measure of research impact, and robustness tests also supported our results.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)82-98
Number of pages17
JournalAcademy of Management Learning and Education
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2012

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Education
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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