Eric,
The following article in press at AMLE includes a list of 38 popular textbooks in general management, human resources, organizational behavior, and strategy:
- Aguinis, H., Ramani, R. S., Alabduljader, N., Bailey, J. R., & Lee, J. in press. A pluralist conceptualization of scholarly impact in management education: Students as stakeholders. Academy of Management Learning and Education. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2017.0488
The article is available at
http://www.hermanaguinis.com/pubs.html and the abstract is below.
I hope this helps!
All the best,
--Herman.
Abstract
Scholarly impact is typically conceptualized and measured as an internal exchange that occurs among researchers in the form of citations in journal articles. We offer an expanded conceptualization and measurement of scholarly impact by investigating knowledge transfer to a critical management education constituency: students. To do so, we investigated which sources (e.g., peer-reviewed journals, business periodicals); individual items (e.g., journal articles, book chapters); and authors are most frequently cited in 38 widely used organizational behavior, human resource management, strategic management, and general management undergraduate-level textbooks. By extracting all endnotes and references, we created a database including 7,445 sources, 33,719 articles and book chapters, and 32,981 authors cited at least once. Results showed a weak relationship between journals, articles, and authors cited most frequently in journals and those most frequently cited in textbooks. We also found that students are exposed to knowledge and content originating both in academic and non-academic outlets. Results have implications for theory and practice regarding the science–practice gap and a consideration of students as stakeholders, the conceptualization and measurement of scholarly impact and the design of academic performance management and reward systems, and choices regarding what knowledge academics create and disseminate.
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Herman Aguinis, Ph.D.
Incoming Vice President-Elect, Academy of Management
Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management
The George Washington University School of Business
Washington, DC
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-15-2019 09:58
From: Eric Dent
Subject: Best-selling Management textbooks
For research, I'm trying to determine the best-selling textbooks in management, but am finding that this is not a straightforward task.
If you know how to identify such a list, could you please email me (not the list)? dr.eric.dent@gmail.com
Once I've found out the answer, I'll post it here for any who are interested.
Thanks!
Eric
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Eric Dent
Professor
Florida Gulf Coast University
(239) 220-6236
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