An Empirical Investigation of the Communication Content in Reputable Management Journals
Business Studies Journal, Volume 4, Special Issue, Number 1, 2012
25 Pages Posted: 28 Dec 2013
Date Written: November 1, 2012
Abstract
I used one-way analysis of variance to test mean differences among the occurrences of the five communications (business communication, organizational communication, management communication, corporate communication and technical communication) as content in 39 management and specialized journals across five tiers. I found that among the five communications organizational communication was the only communication subject that differed between tiers 4 and 5. Means also differed among “super-cited” seminal articles, based on a Google Scholar search, and tiers. The occurrences of communication across five journal tiers were statistically the same on four of six null hypotheses tested; therefore, there appears to be no inherent bias in the occurrences of communication content in the management journals.
Keywords: ranking, journals, management, tiers, quality, communication
JEL Classification: Z00
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