Revisiting the standing of international business journals in the competitive landscape

Journal of World Business

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 487-498

  Tüselmann, Heinz ^a   Sinkovics, Rudolf R ^b,c   Pishchulov, Grigory ^d  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Journal lists; Journal ranking; Research evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957403804     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2016.01.006     Document Type: Article

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