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Abstract
The authors investigate published international business research in four international business journals over a 10‐year period, 1995–2004: (a) patterns of coauthorship across regions, and (b) the relation between coauthorship patterns and the quality of international business (IB) articles. A cross‐region coauthorship enhances the quality of an article, suggesting that international collaboration creates synergy in IB research. The authors do not see any positive correlation between alphabetical ordering of coauthor names in multiauthored articles and article quality—a result that is contrary to some evidence in other disciplines. Finally, international management articles appear to be more frequently cited than articles in other IB research areas.
Notes
1. The Journal of World Business was originally called the Columbia Journal of World Business. The International Business Review, in its first year of publication, was originally called the Scandinavian International Business Review.
2. The nine journals are Journal of International Business Studies, Columbia Journal of World Business (now called Journal of World Business), Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Finance, and American Economic Review.
3. The weights are coauthorship using a 1/N adjustment. For instance, two institutions receive half of the credit for a two‐authored article.