A Citation-Based Ranking of Strategic Management Journals

Rankings of strategy journals are important for authors, readers, and promotion and tenure committees. We present several rankings, based either on the number of articles that cited the journal or the per article impact. Our analyses cover various periods between 1991 and 2006, for most of which the Strategic Management Journal was in first place and Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS) second, although JEMS ranked first in certain instances. Long Range Planning and Technology Analysis & Strategic Management also achieve a top position. Strategic Organization makes an impressive entry and achieves a top position in 2003–2006.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Suzuki, Y. Japanese Managmnt Structures, 1920–80.
Bradley K,. and Taylors, Business Performance in the Retail Sector: Experience of the John Lewis Partnership.
Haspeslagph P. E. and Jemison, D. B. Managing Acquisitions: Creating Value Through Corporate Renewal.
Arnold J. Robertson I. T. and Cooper. C. L. Work Psychology: Understanding Human Behaviour in the Workplace.
Smith, M. (Ed.). Analysing Organisational Behaviour.
Ewing K. D. The Right to Strike.
Witt S. F., Brooke M. Z. and Buckley. P. J. The Management of International Tourism.
Blyton P. and Morris. J., (Eds.). A Flexible Future: Prospects for Employment and Organization.
Diacogiannis, G. and de Souza, E. Lotus 1-2-3 for Finance and Business: A Practical Guide.
Legge, K. Clegg C,. W. and Kemp N. J. (Eds.), Information Technology, People and Organizations.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book review in this article:
Y oung , D avid W. The Managerial Process in Human Service Agencies
P oole , M ichael and M ansfield , R oger (Eds) Managerial Roles in Industrial Relations
C hang , Y. N. and C ampo -F lores , F ilemon Business Policy and Strategy
G odiwalla , Y ezdi M inoo , M einhart , W ayne A. and W arde , W illiam D. Corporate Strategy and Functional Management
H art , P. E. and C larke , R. Concentration in British Industry 1935–75
W ild , R ay Management and Production
S izer , J ohn (Ed.) Readings in Management Accounting
P en J an Modern Economics
P inder , C raig C. and M oore , L arry F. (Eds) Middle Range Theory and the Study of Organizations
K elly , J oe Organizational Behavior: Its Data, First Principles, and Applications
W oodward , J oan Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice (2nd edition)
C ummings , T homas G. Systems Theory for Organization Development
McF arland , D alton Innovation in the Metropolitan Hospital
S case , R ichard and G offee , R obert The Real World of the Small Business Owner
G arrett , J ohn Managing the Civil Service
C ooper , C ary L. (Ed) Developing Managers for the 1980s
R ivett , P atrick Model Building for Decision Analysis
J amieson , I an Capitalism and Culture: A Comparative Analysis of British and American Manufacturing Organizations
K ennedy , T homas European Labor Relations
I.D.E. (Industrial Democracy in Europe) Industrial Democracy in Europe
A.C.A.S Industrial Relations Handbook
C layre , A lasdair (Ed) The Political Economy of Cooperation and Participation-A Third Sector     

Book Notices

Books review in this article:
The Great Famine: Studies in Irish History 1845–52. Edited by R. Dudley Edwards and T. Desmond Williams
"The Chartist Land Colonies, 1846–1848." By W. H. G. Armytage
"John Minter Morgan's Schemes, 1841–1855." By W. H. G. Armytage
"Alcott House: An Anglo-American Educational Experiment." By W. H. G. Armytage     

Monetary Frameworks and Institutional Constraints: UK Monetary Policy Reaction Functions, 1985–2003

Monetary policy reaction functions are estimated for the UK over three periods – 1985–90, 1992–97 and 1997–2003 – in order to disentangle two effects: the switch from an emphasis on exchange rate stabilization to inflation targeting, and the introduction of instrument-independence in 1997. The external factors considered include US as well as German interest rates, and this leads to the identification of 'domestic' and 'international' models of the reaction function. The results suggest that it is the changes in the institutional arrangements rather than those in the targeting regime which have been decisive in the development of policy in this period.     

HRMism and the Languages of Re-presentation

Storey, John (Ed.). Human Resource Management – A Critical Text . London and New York: Routledge, 1995, pp. 399, $17.99. (pbk).
Legge, Karen. Human Resource Management – Rhetorics and Realities . Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1995, pp. 385, £14.99. (pbk).     

The Changing Power of 'Explanations': Directors, Academics and Their Sensemaking from 1989 to 2000

This paper is based on empirical research conducted with directors in large UK organizations, first in 1987–89, and again in 1998–2000. While the time frame has changed, the focus of the inquiry has remained constant – how do you 'run' a large organization – and data gathered reflect significant changes over time as to how the question is answered. This paper addresses one particular aspect of this complex material: the changing power of practitioner and academic explanations across the decade, highlighted by comparing and contrasting this data and its analysis over time.
The paper illustrates a surprising degree of consistency (in contrast to 1987–89 findings) in practitioners' contemporary explanations of their organizing: all talk of strategic focus, shareholder value and corporate governance, phrases previously never mentioned. This reflects a variety of changes across the decade, including an important concentration of power amongst investors. As well as the methodological implications of 'repeating' this study, the changing power of academics' explanations 'on' organization is also discussed as conceptual frameworks gain and lose their resonance with the times. The paper concludes that sensemaking (Weick, 1995) offers the most appropriate perspective by which such shifts in the power of explanations may best be appreciated.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews in this article
B runsson , N. The Organization of Hypocrisy, Talk, Decisions and Actions in Organizations .
C ooper , C. L. and R obertson , I. (Eds.). International Review of Industrial & Organizational Psychology , Volume 5.
W est , A. Managing Distribution and Change — The Total Distribution Concept .
B irley , S. (Ed.) Building European Ventures .
C legg , S. R. Modern Organizations: Organization Studies in the Postmodern World .     

Book Reviews

McKinley, A. and Starkey, K. (Eds)., Foucault, Management and Organization Theory
Billing, Y.D. and Alvesson, M., Gender, Managers, and Organizations
Whitehead, Stephen and Moodley, Roy (Eds), Transforming Managers: Gendering Changes in the Public Sector
Baumard, Philipe, Tacit Knowledge in Organizations
Furusten, Staffan, Popular Management Books: How They are Made and What They Mean for Organisation
Karnøe, Peter, Kristensen, Peer Hull and Andersen, Poul Houman, Mobilizing Resources and Generating Competences: The Remarkable Success of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Danish Business System
French, Robert and Vince, Russ, Group Relations, Management and Organization     

Interpreting DNA Evidence: A Review

The paper provides a review of current issues relating to the use of DNA profiling in forensic science. A short historical section gives the main statistical milestones that occurred during a rapid development of DNA technology and operational uses. Greater detail is then provided for interpretation issues involving STR DNA profiles, including:

• – methods that take account of population substructure in DNA calculations;

• – parallel work carried out by the US National Research Council;

• – the move away from multiple independence testing in favour of experiments that demonstrate the robustness of casework procedures;

• – the questionable practice of source attribution 'with reasonable scientific certainty';

• – the effect on the interpretation of profiles obtained under increasingly sensitive techniques, the LCN technique in particular;

• – the use of DNA profiles as an intelligence tool;

• – the interpretation of DNA mixtures.

Experience of presenting DNA evidence within UK courts is also discussed. The paper then summarises a generic interpretation framework based on the concept of likelihood ratio within a hierarchy of propositions. Finally the use of Bayesian networks to interpret DNA evidence is reviewed.     

8-Point Plan for Escape from Stagnation

The reasons for the present economic stagnation – which can be compared to the stagnation phase of the inter-war period – are various. But there is one main common denominator: slow growth is the price to be paid today for the artificial stimulation of production through Keynesian demand-oriented policies that came into fashion around the mid-1960s.     

Current trends and future directions for the Canadian healthcare system

This paper outlines the structure of healthcare in Canada and describes trends in health expenditures. Particular attention is paid to trends in Canada's most populous province, Ontario. Three temporal episodes of health expenditure growth in Ontario are identified: 1980–91, a period of rapid growth; 1991–98, a period of restraint; and 1998-present, a period of expenditure resurgence. Health policy initiatives designed to enhance the efficient, effective and equitable access to healthcare services are briefly reviewed.     

BOOK REVIEWS

G hoshal , S. and W estney , D. E. (Eds.) Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation.
H artley , R. F. Business Ethics: Violations of the Public Trust.
M iner , J. B. Role Motivation Theories.
H ill -I ingersoll , V. and A dams , G. B. The Tacit Organization.
V onortas , N. S. Cooperative Research In R&D-Intensive Industries.
L ee , G. L. and S mith , C. (Eds.) Engineers and Management: International Comparisons.
K elley , L. and S henkar , O. (Eds.) International Business In China.
W olstenholme , E., H enderson , S. and G avine , A. The Evaluation of Management Information Systems: A Dynamic and Holistic Approach.
W illman , P., M orris , T. and A ston , B. Union Business: Trade Union Organization and Financial Reform In the Thatcher Years.
K ay , J. Foundations of Corporate Success: How Business Strategies Add Value.
F arnham , D. and H orton , S. (Eds.) Managing the New Public Services.     

THE INTERPRETATION OF ORGANIZATION: A CONTEMPORARY ANALYSIS AND CRITIQUE*

This article is concerned with examining the development of interest in organizational interpretation (exemplified by a decade of analyses of culture and symbolism in organization) as a rhetorical and philosophical episode in Organization Studies. the presumed ‘productivity’ of this recently developed arena of Organization Studies, for both the theory and practice of organization, is carefully considered through the discussion of a broad range of work from the past decade. This body of work is examined as a ‘genre’ of Organization Studies that both manifests particular issues for interpretation and articulates particular styles of representation. The article argues that the rise of interest in organizational interpretation represents a late-modern phase in Organization Studies, whereby traditional priorities and subordinations in the theory and practice of organization have been rewritten and renewed. In this way, organizational interpretation has come to articulate the most recent form of avant-garde activity in the continuing modernization of Organization Studies. In contrast, the article concludes with the consideration of a theory and practice for such work which would contribute to the articulation of a postmodern Organization Studies.     

Hidden Cities

Books reviewed in this article: Borden, Iain, Joe Kerr and Jane Rendell (eds.) with Alicia Pivaro The unknown city: contesting architecture and social space Coutard, Olivier (ed.) The governance of large technical systems Easterling, Keller Organization space: landscapes, highways, and houses in America Melosi, Martin V. The sanitary city: urban infrastructure in America from colonial times to the present     

H. G. J. as Biographer's Subject: Some Autobiographical Writings

In the last decade of his life, Harry Johnson (1923–1977) wrote a number of autobiographical pieces. He published three relating to his periods in Cambridge (1946–47 and 1949–55), but he did not publish two long autobiographical notes and a series of memoirs of his undergraduate career at the University of Toronto (1939–43), his first teaching job as the entire economics department at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia (1943–44) and his later period in England (1966–74). This material provides a number of clues as to the way Harry wished to be remembered and the paper develops some of the strongest autobiographical themes common to them.     

BOOKS

Book reviiewed in this article:
A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF DISSENTING ECONOMISTS Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (Eds.)
EOUITY AND CHOICE Julian Le Grand Harper-Collins.
ORIGIN AND ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT Paul A Menkveld
UK FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS Michael Pawley, David Winstone & Patrick Bentley.
THE MORALITY OF BUSINESS Norman Barry Aberdeen.
THE NEW PALGRAVE: THE WORLD OF ECONOMICS John Eatwell, Murray Milgate & Peter Newman (Eds.)
THE ECONOMIC IDEAS OF ORDINARY PEOPLE: FROM PREFERENCES TO TRADE David M. Levy
GOVERN MENT AND ECONOMIES IN THE POSTWAR WORLD: ECONOMIC POLICIES AND COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE 1945–85 Andrew Graham with Anthony Seldon
PROTECTIONISM AND INTERNATIONAL BANKING Gerhard Fels & George Situja.
THE CITY OF LONDON: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE, 1850–1990 Ranald C. Michie
THE LIFE OF AN ECONOMIST Charles P. Kindleberger
PARLIAMENT OF WHORES P.J. O'Rourke Picador.     

Competing with the Public Sector in Broadcasting

There are two public sector broadcasters in the UK: the BBC and Channel 4. In their different ways, their behaviour attracts criticism from the private sector. However, this critique is unfocused and potentially counter-productive. A more efficient – or privatised – public sector would create greater, not lesser, problems for the private sector. The allegations of abuse of privilege and unfair competition may be justified, but the private sector needs a coherent alternative rationale for public funding of broadcasting before it can expect to win a public and political debate.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book review in this Article
Quinn, J. B. Intelligent Entreprise.
Clark, P. and Staunton, N. Innovation In Technology and Organization.
Milgrom, P. and Roberts, J. Economics, Organization and Management.
Brewster, C., Hegewisch, A., Holden, L. and Lockhart, T. (Eds.). The European Human Resource Management Guide.
Morgan, G. Imaginization: the Art of Creative Management.
Durlabhji, S. and Marks, N. E. (Eds.). Japanese Business: Cultural Perspectives.
Hassard, J. Sociology and Organization Theory: Positivism, Paradigms and Postmodernity.
Loveridge, R. and Starkey, K. (Eds.). Continuity and Crisis In the Nhs.
Kessler, S. and Bayliss, F. Contemporary British Industrial Relations.
Johnson, H. Relevance Regained, From Top-Down Control to Bottom-Up Empowerment.
Hansen, P and Conrad, A. (Ed.). A Handbook of Psychological Assessment In Business.     

Manifested Attitudes: Intricacies of Inter-Partner Learning in Collaboration

abstract    This article is concerned with attitudes to learning in inter-organizational collaboration. Basic attitudes to learning evident in extant research – selfish , sharing and sidelined – are compared with those observed through research-oriented action research. A conceptualization based on a characterization of the attitudes observed in the research situations is produced. It models attitudes to learning in collaboration as bundles of varied stances relating to taking and giving knowledge from or to a partner, or excluding learning from the agenda altogether. The observations suggest that actual attitudes – which are evident at individual, community or organizational level – are much more varied than the basic attitudes and that they often include elements of all three – sidelined , selfish and sharing – motivations. The model acknowledges differences in perceptions of attitudes, differences of attitudes within partner organizations as well as between them, and differences in partners' attitudes to each other over time.