The impact of economics on management

Ofer Azar

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2008, vol. 68, issue 3-4, 667-675

Abstract: This article analyzes the impact of economics on management by examining citations of 71 management journals. AER, JPE, Econometrica and QJE have the highest impact. Industrial organization journals also have a particularly large impact. The share of economics in management citations drops from 9.91 percent until 1995 to 5.70 percent for 1996-2005. Three possible explanations for this decrease are analyzed: economics research became more mathematical; because management is a younger discipline, it grew faster than economics in quantity and quality of research; and interdisciplinary spillover of research is slower than the spillover within a discipline. Only the second explanation is supported by the data.

Keywords: Management; Citation; analysis; Economics; journals; Rankings; Academic; impact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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