Identifying influential studies and maturity level in intellectual structure of fields: evidence from strategic manageme
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Identifying influential studies and maturity level in intellectual structure of fields: evidence from strategic management Mehmet Ali Köseoglu1 · John A. Parnell2 · Melissa Yan Yee Yick1 Received: 12 May 2020 © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2020
Abstract We introduce new approaches to identify influential studies and maturity levels in the intellectual structure of disciplines. To this end, we investigate the evolution of the intellectual structure of strategic management (SM) by employing citation/co-citation analysis through network analysis for academic citations in articles published in the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ). We employed citation and co-citation analysis through social network analysis to identify influential studies. We developed an index and used the co-citations from studies in articles published in the SMJ to assess the maturity level. We identify influential papers by conducting citation analysis and using each cited article’s centrality scores to identify cited papers that hold critical positions in the network as our new approach. For the maturity level, we introduce an index and detect average distance, K-core, density, small-worldness, and cluster coefficient of the co-citation network. We conclude by recommending future directions to increase maturity in the SM research domain. This paper is the first to discuss methods to identify influential studies and the maturity level in the intellectual structure of fields in a comprehensive manner. Keywords Influential studies · Citation analysis · Maturity level · Network attributes · Strategic management · SMJ
* Mehmet Ali Köseoglu [email protected] John A. Parnell [email protected] Melissa Yan Yee Yick [email protected] 1
School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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College of Business, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL 35632, USA
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Introduction ‘What are the influential studies in the intellectual structure of fields?’ and ‘what is the maturity of the field?’ are always popular questions for scholars. Whereas identifying influential studies helps scholars elucidate foundations of intellectual structure in fields, the delineation of maturity level promotes theory development. Hence, researchers employ citation analysis to identify the most influential studies. Citation analysis utilizes the frequency of citations in the published documents to delineate the intellectual structure of fields. However, this method is limited to illustrating influential studies in the network generated by co-citations. Therefore, this study aims to show how influential studies in the intellectual structure of fields can be detected. Researchers evaluate the maturity level of fields as early stage, young, or mature by focusing on theoretical and methodological developments on fields. However, these evaluations mainly consist of subjective and objective views as a bibliometric analysis is seldom completed. There is a lack of qu
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