ISI, social entrepreneurship, and research

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Carraher, S.M. (2013), "ISI, social entrepreneurship, and research", Journal of Management History, Vol. 19 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmh.2013.15819aaa.001

ISI, social entrepreneurship, and research

Article Type: Editorial From: Journal of Management History, Volume 19, Issue 1

Welcome to issue Number 1 of Volume 19 of the Journal of Management History. As I write this editorial according to Publish or Perish the number of citations for Journal of Management History papers has increased from 1,862 to 1,982 since the last issue. Our h index is still 19 but our g index has increased from 30 to 31 thanks to the additional citations. We have two papers that have been cited 19 times – Mendenhall et al. (2000) and Ryan (1999) – and our most cited paper remains Roehling (1997). We also have an Age Weighted Citation Rate of 215.8 so we are getting cited more and more over time. It has now been a year since I was named the Editor and it has been a year of change. When I took over we had a solid flow of manuscripts that were able to keep us working two issues again in terms of what we were accepting. We currently are running about three issues ahead – but it would be nice to get more submissions. I had hoped that we would be able to once again start the review process for ISI inclusion but at this point we need more submissions and more citations. If you presented a paper on Management History at the Academy of Management meeting, the British Academy of Management, the Southern Management Association, the SouthWest Academy of Management, the MidWest Academy of Management, the Western Academy of Management, the Eastern Academy of Management, or any other leading conference please submit it to the Journal of Management History. It would also be nice to see more research done on the field of Management History and on the Journal of Management History. I recently received several e-mails from young Assistant Professors who asked me what types of research I thought that they could do in order to get tenure as they were told that they needed to have one solo authored article published in a Cabell-listed journal with an acceptance rate of less than 50 percent. I made several suggestions for future research – most of which focused on performing research about the Journal of Management History. For instance how do various characteristics of the JMH compare to other ISI journals? How do the top ten most cited articles (in terms of total citations or citations per year) from the JMH compare to those from the Baltic Journal of Management, Personnel Review, and Psychological Reports or the BJM, Psychological Reports and the International Journal of Entrepreneurship (which has been in existence about as long as the JMH and so we are comparing two journals are included in ISI while two that are not in ISI)? Since Psychological Reports has been around a lot longer than the other journals what would the results look like if we adjusted it for age (most cited articles published in the last 20 years or so)? Are there differences in terms of where the authors have come from? Are there differences in terms of the topics examined? Were the articles primarily empirical or non-empirical? How many times have they been cited overall – and per year? There could also be articles that would examine characteristics of the JMH itself. What types of citations are used? How many authors are there? Where are the authors from? Etc. Looking at management history from different cultural perspectives could also be useful. For example Kazlauskaite and Buciuniene (2010) examined differences between Human Resources in Lithuania and the USA. Together with Turauskas they also examined differences in employee commitment in the hospitality industry (Kazlauskaite et al., 2006). What might Baltic management history or Lithuanian management history look like? Looking at current management challenges (Pundziene et al., 2006) and what we can learn from management history could also prove useful. As done by Buciuniene and Kazlauskaite (2012) looking at the history and linkages between management constructs could be useful as done with a couple of papers in this issue.

With the last issue, in order to provide an example of how we can create value, I used the example of a creation of the following social entrepreneurship scale:

The following are descriptive of me in the social sector:

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  Adopting a mission to create and sustain social value (not just private value),

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  Recognizing and relentlessly pursuing new opportunities to serve my mission.

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  Engaging in a process of continuous adaptation, innovation, and learning related to my mission.

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  Acting boldly without being limited by resources currently in hand in the fulfillment of my mission.

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  Exhibiting a heightened sense of accountability to the constituencies served by my mission.

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  Caring deeply about the outcomes created by the fulfillment of my mission.

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  I seek to be a “world changer” through the accomplishment of my mission.

I received more than a dozen messages about the scale and it was suggested that a longer scale might be more stable so after careful consideration I came up with the following 11-question scale:

1. 1.

   I am adopting a mission to create social value (not just private value).

2. 2.

   I am recognizing new opportunities to serve my mission.

3. 3.

   I am engaging in a process of continuous adaptation related to my mission.

4. 4.

   I am acting boldly without being limited by resources currently in hand in the fulfillment of my mission.

5. 5.

   I am relentlessly pursuing new opportunities to serve my mission.

6. 6.

   I am caring deeply about the outcomes created by the fulfillment of my mission.

7. 7.

   I seek to be a “world changer” through the accomplishment of my mission.

8. 8.

   I am adopting a mission to sustain social value (not just private value).

9. 9.

   I am engaging in a process of continuous innovation related to my mission.

10. 10.

    I am exhibiting a heightened sense of accountability to the constituencies served by my mission.

11. 11.

    I am engaging in a process of continuous learning related to my mission.

A comparison of the two versions in a sample of 276 healthcare professionals found a coefficient alpha reliability estimate of 0.89 for the shorter version and 0.944 for the longer version. Researchers can feel free to use these scales for their research on social entrepreneurship since I was unable to find any standardized questionnaires for the construct. Historically what other constructs could use refinement or the development of standardized questionnaires? It might be nice to include some of these in the journal.

I have also received several e-mail messages asking about what I have written about research methods and multivariate analysis and so over the next several issues I will seek to expand on them in my editorials along with a discussion of how we can contribute to the signals intelligence literature. Getting to the current subject at hand in the current issue we have six wonderful articles, which include a mix of previous authors and new authors to the journal. In “A study of resource dependency: the coal supply strategy of the Japanese steel mills 1960-2010” by Bowden of Griffith University and Andrea Insch of the University of Otago. They examine the long-term consequences of strategies aimed at reducing resource dependency using Japanese steel mills and the Australian-based coal industry. They argue that there have been long-term adverse consequences to oligopoly attempts to manipulate buyer-supplier relationships in order to minimize cost inputs. In “The relevance of management to society: Peter Drucker’s Oeuvre from the 1940s and 1950s” Derrick Chong of the University of London seeks to bring Drucker back in to modern academic discussions about the future of capitalism and the role of the business corporation. In “History-of-management-thought about social responsibility” W. Randy Evans of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Stephanie S. Pane Haden of Texas A & M University – Commerce, Russell W. Clayton of the University of North Carolina at Ashville, and Milorad M. Novicevic of the University of Mississippi examine the development of the social responsibility of business concept. They trace the changes of the conceptualization of the concept including the idea of stakeholders.

In “A historical perspective of counterproductive work behavior targeting the organization” Anthony C. Klotz and M. Ronald Buckley of the University of Oklahoma chronicle the study of deviant organizational behavior. They argue that as organizations become more complex and the boundaries between work and personal life continue to blur that much behavior which once was considered to be unacceptable behavior in the workplace may come to be expected to be acceptable by employees. In “Shifts in corporate accountability reflected in socially responsible reporting: A historical review” Duffy Morf of the University of Mississippi, Dale Flesher of the University of Mississippi, Mario Hayek, Stephanie S Pane Haden, and Caroline Hayek of Texas A & M University-Commerce examine how social power over the last century have shifted the ways in which organizations are considered to be socially responsible. They suggest that organizations should stay abreast of social and economic cues when developing and reporting their socially responsible initiatives. Finally in “Psychological management: Changing qualities of the ideal manager in Finland 1949-2009” Pekka Varje, Jussi Turtiainen, and Ari Väänänen all of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health the authors study the emergence of psychological management in Finnish working life. They examine 1305 manager position advertisements between 1949 and 2009. They found that the average number of references to personal skills and traits in management position job advertisements grew from 0.7 to 3.8 from 1949 to 2009 and by the end of the 1990s had even exceeded the number of technical and cognitive skills desired. So we have articles from around the world – and articles that are empirical, conceptual, and review papers. I trust that you will enjoy these articles and find them useful for garnering ideas for your own research.

Shawn M. CarraherEditor