Abstract
The views of college of business faculty were sought to determine their perception on the extent of undeserved authorship in business journals and their impact on the faculty reward system. Six hundred ninety-eight faculty members responded to an electronic survey conducted through Zoomerang. A total of 80% of the respondents indicated that they had been aware of a faculty member undeservedly being carried on a published business journal article, and 58% indicated that they had collaborated with a coauthor who had performed very little work, and 18% reported working with a coauthor who had actually done no work on a published article.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors wish to express their appreciation to Mr. Anvit Dubey and Mr. Emmaneale Mendu for their assistance in the preparation of this manuscript. They aided in gathering and recording the data for the study, entered the data into a query language, developed statistics and tables, performed statistical tests, and prepared the document in proper format to submit for publication.