Title: The development of co-authorship in management and organisation studies

Authors: Erdal Akdeve

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Hukumet Meydanı No: 2, Ulus, 06030 Ankara, Turkey

Abstract: The study aims at examining the appropriateness of the management and organisation field in terms of the 'small world' and the maturity of this field by evaluating the field's progress, cooperation between researchers, and the social networks that arise. The study was conducted with social network analyses and data on multi-authored papers presented at 18 annual national management and organisation congresses in Turkey. The development of cooperation among researchers was analysed in two areas: the development of cooperation and social network analysis. The bibliometric analysis method is utilised to evaluate the papers presented at the congresses. Suggestions are offered to promote cooperation between researchers and to increase the maturity of the field.

Keywords: management and organisation; cooperation; network analysis; social networks; small world approach; Turkey.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBBM.2018.092752

International Journal of Bibliometrics in Business and Management, 2018 Vol.1 No.2, pp.133 - 146

Received: 03 Dec 2015
Accepted: 28 Oct 2016

Published online: 29 Jun 2018 *

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