The Reviewing of Management Literature

Abstract

The goal of this study was to identify the most productive reviewing journals for newly published titles in business management. The first objective was to determine the quantity of reviews published in specific journals, with the assumption that a small core of journals would carry the greatest number of reviews. A second objective was to determine the amount of duplication, with the assumption that a few monographs would be reviewed repeatedly but that the majority would be reviewed rarely or not at all. The 604 titles listed in the 658 class of the 1981 edition of American Book Publishing Record (ABPR) were checked for reviews through the 1980-83 cumulations of Business Periodicals Index and Book Review Index to produce a final sample of 564 reviews of 252 books in 114 journals. The first assumption was supported. A core of twelve journals, or 10.5 percent, accounted for 300 reviews, or 53 percent. These most productive journals were Library Journal and Personnel Psychology, followed by Choice and Booklist, then by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Accounting Review, Harvard Business Review, and Personnel Administration, then by Accounting Management Review, Contemporary Psychology, and Personnel Management. The second assumption was also supported. One hundred thirteen, or 45 percent, of the books were reviewed twice or more. One book was reviewed twenty-four times; another, eighteen times; another, twelve times. Library Journal and Personnel Psychology together included 115 reviews, of which thirty-nine were duplicates; in these two journals alone, reviews of seventy-six books, or 30 percent of the total, could be identified. However, 491 books, or 81 percent of the 604 management titles published in 1981, received just one review or none at all.

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