Winning the tournament for named professorships in management |
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| Authors: | Luis Gomez-Mejia Len J Trevino Franklin G Mixon Jr |
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| Institution: | 1. Carroll and Dorothy Conn Chair in New Ventures Leadership, Department of Management , Mays Business School, Texas A&2. M University , College Station, TX, USA lgomez-mejia@mays.tamu.edu;4. The Gerald N. Gaston Eminent Scholar Chair in International Business, The Joseph A. Butt S.J. College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans , New Orleans, LA, USA;5. Department of Economics, Eugene W. Stetson, School of Business and Economics, Mercer University , Macon, GA, USA |
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| Abstract: | We apply tournament theory to explain the process within which selection of named professorships takes place and a procedural justice test to justify winning the named professorship tournament. Specifically, we estimate the probability that management professors hold one of the highest rewards for academic research productivity, a named professorship, as a function of his or her research credentials, as measured by the number of articles published in a small core of elite management journals. Alphabetically, these are Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Operations Management, Management Science, Operations Research, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. Although each of the eight journals is positively related to the probability of attaining a named professorship, the Academy of Management Review and the Academy of Management Journal emerge as the two most influential management journals. |
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| Keywords: | elite management journals named professorships procedural justice tournament theory |
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