Here is a glossary I did for my strategy textbook Management Strategy
(McGraw Hill). I am in the midst of a revision which will be out next
year. best
Alfie Marcus
Professor and Spencer Chair in
Strategy and Technological Leadership
Strategic Management and Organization Dept.
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota
Mpls,MN 55455
(612)624-2812
Xin Liang wrote:
> Hi Corey and all,
>
> Sorry if you are not interested, but it seems that some colleagues
> would also like to have the following paper as a reference in
> answering Corey question. In this study, the authors searched the key
> words of publications on strategy topics and listed them in the appendix.
>
> 'The structure and evolution of the strategic management field: A
> content analysis of 26 years of strategic management research'
>
> International Journal of Management Reviews,2008 Volume 10 Issue 1 pp.
> 1?23
>
> You may want to contact the following authors of the paper about their
> data:
>
> Olivier Furrer, Howard Thomas and Anna Goussevskaia
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Xin
>
>
> Quoting Rajiv Nag <
RNag@WALTON.UARK.EDU>:
>
>> Hi Corey,
>>
>> Don Hambrick, Ming-Jer Chen and I reported a study in 2007 [SMJ vol
>> 28(9) p. 335-355] where we extracted a representative lexicon of the
>> strategic management field. Our approach was based on approximating
>> the "consensus view" of the strategic management community by first
>> requesting its members to identity the articles that best represent
>> research in the field and then analyzing the abstracts of those
>> articles to discern the distinctive lexicon of the field.
>>
>> The 54 words in our lexicon could be a possible wordlist for you to
>> consider, although they are clearly "indirect" in terms of being
>> author-provided.
>>
>> Here are some heuristics that we used to shorten our word list, while
>> still retaining representativeness
>>
>> a) Use a frequency of occurrence cut off point, say 10 or 20 occurrences
>>
>> b) Eliminate common language terms, proper nouns, prepositions,
>> articles etc.
>>
>> c) Group words with similar roots - Finance, Financial; or Profit,
>> Profitability etc.
>>
>>
>> Best wishes for your study.
>>
>>
>> Rajiv
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> Rajiv Nag, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor of Management
>> Sam Walton College of Business
>> University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Business Policy and Strategy List [
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>> On Behalf Of Corey Phelps [
cphelps@U.WASHINGTON.EDU]
>> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:06 PM
>> To:
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>> Subject: Strategic Management Journal key words
>>
>> I am working on a bibliometric analysis project using the Strategic
>> Management Journal as a primary data source. In my data of all SMJ pubs
>> between 1980-2008, there are approximately 3200 unique
>> author-provided key
>> words. Many of these key words are redundant (but differ in spelling
>> and use
>> of capitalization) or are very similar, conceptually (e.g., "agency
>> costs"
>> and "agency problems"). I would like to use a
>> rationalized/standardized list
>> of author-provided key words. Is anyone on the list aware of such a
>> list? If
>> not, I am also interested in suggestions on how to develop such a list.
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Corey
>>
>> Corey Phelps, PhD
>> Asst. Professor, Management & Organization
>> Neal & Jan Dempsey Faculty Fellow
>> Michael G. Foster School of Business
>> University of Washington
>> Box 353200
>> Seattle, WA 98195
>> (206) 543-6579
>>
>
>
>