Analysis of Collaboration Networks in Business Disciplines

Abstract

Using the articles published in 24 periodicals included in the branch of business fields of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) journal list (2000–2012) as the data source, this article establishes the collaboration network of scholars of six different disciplines (i.e., business administration, management science, marketing, accounting, finance, and information science), analyzes the features of the network by utilizing the social network analysis approach, and studies the mode of interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars. The network feature analysis reveals that the collaboration networks of the six disciplines are all sparse, and collaboration is established more in the subgroup. The disciplines of business administration, accounting, and finance have the poorest collaboration network connectivity. The collaboration networks of the six disciplines in business fields all have obvious core-periphery structure; the small-world phenomenon exists in the collaboration networks of business administration and information science. The interdisciplinary research on the scholars of business fields indicates that the interdisciplinary collaboration among information science scholars takes up the maximum proportion and is carried out principally in collaboration of the two disciplines. The collaboration between scholars in management science and information science accounts for the highest proportion.

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