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  • 1.  Academy of Management Review and the FT45

    Posted 06-06-2016 14:43

     

     

    As you may know, the Financial Times uses a list of 45 journals to assess research quality and determine business school rankings (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3405a512-5cbb-11e1-8f1f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz48pTKFgOO.)  We recently learned that the Academy of Management Review (AMR) may be removed from this FT 45 list of journals. 

     

    We find this troubling, as AMR has consistently been ranked among the top five most influential and frequently cited journals in our field.  In fact, AMR is ranked #1 in the category of business and #2 in the category of Management (Thompson Reuters, 2014).  The journal's impact factor is 7.45 with a 5 year impact factor of 10.736. 

     

    AMR consistently publishes the highest quality theoretical work done in the field.  With close to *5 million downloads* to its content in 2015, AMR is an essential resource for management scholars and students who seek to understand the "why's and how's" behind timely and fundamental organizational problems faced by managers and organizations.

     

    Your school may be asked to vote on whether to keep AMR on the Financial Times list of journals.  If so, please contact your representative as soon as possible to make sure that AMR stays on the list.  You can also contact the Financial Times directly by sending an e-mail to Laurent Ortmans:  mba@ft.com


    Please do so soon, as the deadline for voting is Friday 17 June.

     

    Thank you for your support.

     

     

     

    Debra L. Shapiro, Ph.D.

     

     

     

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  • 2.  Academy of Management Review and the FT45

    Posted 06-07-2016 09:06

    This is an interesting follow-up on the spirited discussion we had a few weeks ago.

     

    I am wondering what this means for the FT45 list in general. Is anyone aware of what effect a FT45 rearrangement might have on Entrepreneurship journals (JBV/ETP)? If a journal like AMR is reconsidered I would guess that a broader reshuffling might be ongoing. And I am afraid that this list might not become more inclusive.

     

    Best

    Kai

     

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    Subject: [ENTREP] Academy of Management Review and the FT45

     

     

     

    As you may know, the Financial Times uses a list of 45 journals to assess research quality and determine business school rankings (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3405a512-5cbb-11e1-8f1f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz48pTKFgOO.)  We recently learned that the Academy of Management Review (AMR) may be removed from this FT 45 list of journals. 

     

    We find this troubling, as AMR has consistently been ranked among the top five most influential and frequently cited journals in our field.  In fact, AMR is ranked #1 in the category of business and #2 in the category of Management (Thompson Reuters, 2014).  The journal's impact factor is 7.45 with a 5 year impact factor of 10.736. 

     

    AMR consistently publishes the highest quality theoretical work done in the field.  With close to *5 million downloads* to its content in 2015, AMR is an essential resource for management scholars and students who seek to understand the "why's and how's" behind timely and fundamental organizational problems faced by managers and organizations.

     

    Your school may be asked to vote on whether to keep AMR on the Financial Times list of journals.  If so, please contact your representative as soon as possible to make sure that AMR stays on the list.  You can also contact the Financial Times directly by sending an e-mail to Laurent Ortmans:  mba@ft.com


    Please do so soon, as the deadline for voting is Friday 17 June.

     

    Thank you for your support.

     

     

     

    Debra L. Shapiro, Ph.D.

     

     

     

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  • 3.  Academy of Management Review and the FT45

    Posted 06-07-2016 09:49
    Personally I do not understand what is going on with the FT45 list. I am aware of at least two other journals currently in the list that are supposedly also being re-considered for their ongoing inclusion.  I have also heard that FT is questioning the importance of practitioner journals in the list, which would be a travesty, especially given our ongoing concern about the impact our research has.

    Truthfully after seeing that AMR is even remotely at risk of being removed as well, I now suspect that perhaps FT is just doing a wide-ranging review of the list to make sure they, and the scholarly community, are comfortable with the list they are using now. It doesn't seem possible that AMR is at risk.    

    I suspect many of our North American colleagues don't really care what happens in the FT 45 journal list since I believe very few universities in NA pay much attention to this journal list for tenure and incentive decisions and the MBA ranking from FT is also less utilized in NA. In Europe, the FT ranking, and their journal list, are highly utilized. I know of one business school in Europe that offers 20,000 euros for a pub in FT 45 journals due to its direct impact on MBA rankings.  At the moment FT 45 has minimal impact at my school since our incentive structure is based on ABS 3/4.

    In the end as some of our other colleagues have said, we also need to tune this stuff out to an extent and just keep on plugging along trying to do good and relevant work and publish where we feel our work belongs because it contributes to a conversation in those journals.


    El 07-06-2016, a las 15:05, Kai Hockerts <kho.ikl@cbs.dk> escribió:

    This is an interesting follow-up on the spirited discussion we had a few weeks ago.
     
    I am wondering what this means for the FT45 list in general. Is anyone aware of what effect a FT45 rearrangement might have on Entrepreneurship journals (JBV/ETP)? If a journal like AMR is reconsidered I would guess that a broader reshuffling might be ongoing. And I am afraid that this list might not become more inclusive.
     
    Best
    Kai
     
    From: Entrepreneurship Division Listserv [mailto:ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of AOM Publications
    Sent: 6. juni 2016 20:43
    To: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [ENTREP] Academy of Management Review and the FT45
     
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    As you may know, the Financial Times uses a list of 45 journals to assess research quality and determine business school rankings(http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3405a512-5cbb-11e1-8f1f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz48pTKFgOO.)  We recently learned that the Academy of Management Review (AMR) may be removed from this FT 45 list of journals. 
     
    We find this troubling, as AMR has consistently been ranked among the top five most influential and frequently cited journals in our field.  In fact, AMR is ranked #1 in the category of business and #2 in the category of Management (Thompson Reuters, 2014).  The journal's impact factor is 7.45 with a 5 year impact factor of 10.736. 
     
    AMR consistently publishes the highest quality theoretical work done in the field.  With close to *5 million downloads* to its content in 2015, AMR is an essential resource for management scholars and students who seek to understand the "why's and how's" behind timely and fundamental organizational problems faced by managers and organizations.
     
    Your school may be asked to vote on whether to keep AMR on the Financial Times list of journals.  If so, please contact your representative as soon as possible to make sure that AMR stays on the list.  You can also contact the Financial Times directly by sending an e-mail to Laurent Ortmans:  mba@ft.com

    Please do so soon, as the deadline for voting is Friday 17 June.
     
    Thank you for your support.
     
     
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    Debra L. Shapiro, Ph.D.
     
     
     
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  • 4.  Academy of Management Review and the FT45

    Posted 06-07-2016 10:27
    All the FT is doing is looking at those 10 journals for which there are few articles being published by those whose institutions are listed by the FT.  While this post is focussing on AMR remember that the list of journals they are considering excluding are the following (as well as AMR).  Nearly all of these journals have many downloads and a very high citation rate.  Note also that while the AOM sent out an email about AMR, they did not send out an email about AMP.  Those of us who have a 'vote' in this have been lobbied by many of the journals.  One can easily argue as to the veracity of some changes but I would be argue that they are well within their right to change the list and at least are open about it.  While AMR is a fine journal, it is no finer than QJE or Econometrica or JASA or JPE to those individuals in their respective fields.  One can argue citation impact factors and other metrics but that would very quickly exclude other journals on the list (think J. Business Ethics).

    Some journals (e.g., AMP and ASQ) are no doubt on the list because they publish a small number of papers (per year).  Others because they are someone exclusive clubs and an in-house magazine (like HBR).  Some are on the list because most business schools do not have large groups of econometricians or statisticians (e.g., Econometrica or JASA).  If AMR is on the list it is there for a reason that has more to do with who publishes there and less to do with its citation impact factor. What the FT has asked is that schools say which 5 of the 10 journals they would excluded if they had a choice and which 5 other journals they would add if they had a choice.  They are not asking anything more than that. .... 

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    On Jun 7, 2016, at 2:05 PM, Kai Hockerts <kho.ikl@CBS.DK> wrote:

    This is an interesting follow-up on the spirited discussion we had a few weeks ago.
     
    I am wondering what this means for the FT45 list in general. Is anyone aware of what effect a FT45 rearrangement might have on Entrepreneurship journals (JBV/ETP)? If a journal like AMR is reconsidered I would guess that a broader reshuffling might be ongoing. And I am afraid that this list might not become more inclusive.
     
    Best
    Kai
     
    From: Entrepreneurship Division Listserv [mailto:ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of AOM Publications
    Sent: 6. juni 2016 20:43
    To: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [ENTREP] Academy of Management Review and the FT45
     
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    As you may know, the Financial Times uses a list of 45 journals to assess research quality and determine business school rankings (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3405a512-5cbb-11e1-8f1f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz48pTKFgOO.)  We recently learned that the Academy of Management Review (AMR) may be removed from this FT 45 list of journals. 
     
    We find this troubling, as AMR has consistently been ranked among the top five most influential and frequently cited journals in our field.  In fact, AMR is ranked #1 in the category of business and #2 in the category of Management (Thompson Reuters, 2014).  The journal's impact factor is 7.45 with a 5 year impact factor of 10.736. 
     
    AMR consistently publishes the highest quality theoretical work done in the field.  With close to *5 million downloads* to its content in 2015, AMR is an essential resource for management scholars and students who seek to understand the "why's and how's" behind timely and fundamental organizational problems faced by managers and organizations.
     
    Your school may be asked to vote on whether to keep AMR on the Financial Times list of journals.  If so, please contact your representative as soon as possible to make sure that AMR stays on the list.  You can also contact the Financial Times directly by sending an e-mail to Laurent Ortmans:  mba@ft.com

    Please do so soon, as the deadline for voting is Friday 17 June.
     
    Thank you for your support.
     
     
    <image002.png>
     
    Debra L. Shapiro, Ph.D.
     
     
     
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