The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted to journals ranked in the top-5 of their discipline. This increase is the rational response, by faculty, to the overweighting of publications in these journals by university promotions and tenure committees. The...

Why are we doing academic research about business-to-business marketing? This is the fundamental question that all of us who are scholars of business and related fields should ask ourselves. To me, it is obvious that we conduct research to help managers do a better job - perhaps not immediately...

Open access means that research outputs, such as articles and data, are free of restrictions on access and free of restrictions on use. In the light of recent market developments in academic publishing, we argue in this essay that the discourse about open access must include a discussion about...