Tell Me Where You Belong, I Might Cite Your Work: Affiliation Origins, Legitimation Efforts, and the Citation of Team-Produced Research in Business and Management Scholarship

TY - JOUR

T1 - Tell Me Where You Belong, I Might Cite Your Work

T2 - Affiliation Origins, Legitimation Efforts, and the Citation of Team-Produced Research in Business and Management Scholarship

AU - Belkhouja, Mustapha

AU - Yoon, Hyungseok

AU - Maon, François

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Belkhouja et al

PY - 2022/3/15

Y1 - 2022/3/15

N2 - Drawing from the country-of-origin literature, this study theorizes the effect of academic affiliation origins on the academic impact of knowledge produced by teams of researchers. Our econometric analysis employing more than 65,000 peer-reviewed articles published from 1997 to 2012 in business and management journals reveals that the higher the share of co-authors with peripheral affiliations (i.e. the proportion of authors in a research team not affiliated with a US or UK institution), the lower is the number of citations their articles receive on average. Despite the globalization of knowledge production, the results show that scholars’ geographic location still plays an influential role in knowledge diffusion processes, conditioning gains, or setbacks with respect to the academic impact of their work.

AB - Drawing from the country-of-origin literature, this study theorizes the effect of academic affiliation origins on the academic impact of knowledge produced by teams of researchers. Our econometric analysis employing more than 65,000 peer-reviewed articles published from 1997 to 2012 in business and management journals reveals that the higher the share of co-authors with peripheral affiliations (i.e. the proportion of authors in a research team not affiliated with a US or UK institution), the lower is the number of citations their articles receive on average. Despite the globalization of knowledge production, the results show that scholars’ geographic location still plays an influential role in knowledge diffusion processes, conditioning gains, or setbacks with respect to the academic impact of their work.

KW - Citation

KW - Country of origin

KW - Legitimacy

KW - Research collaboration

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126973569&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.37725/mgmt.v25.4455

DO - 10.37725/mgmt.v25.4455

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85126973569

SN - 1286-4892

VL - 25

SP - 49

EP - 65

JO - Management (France)

JF - Management (France)

IS - 1

ER -