Smeal Among Top 25 In Business Research
In an updated study analyzing the research productivity of American business schools, Penn State’s Smeal College of Business ranks 24 th overall in the country and 13 th among public institutions, with five of the six departments in the college ranking in the top 20.
University Park, PA — In an updated study analyzing the research productivity of American business schools, Penn State’s Smeal College of Business ranks 24 th overall in the country and 13 th among public institutions, with five of the six departments in the college ranking in the top 20.
Finance: 15
Insurance, International Business & Real Estate: 16
Accounting: 17
Marketing: 17
Management: 19
The college’s sixth department, Supply Chain and Information Systems, was a discipline not ranked in the survey.
The study, “Serving Multiple Constituencies in the Business School: MBA Program vs. Research Performance,” initially considered productivity from 1986 through 1998. It was published in the May 2000 issue of the Academy of Management Journal and ranked Smeal 25 th in the country. The updated report, which evaluated the years 1997 through 2001, was completed two years later.
“The quality of our faculty, as teachers and as researchers who make significant intellectual contributions to their fields, has been a point of pride for Smeal throughout our 50-year history,” said Dean Judy Olian. “We continue to recruit top-notch, research-oriented faculty to the college, which will bolster our prominence among the top research schools in the country.”
To arrive at their rankings, the study’s authors identified a set of eight business school discipline groups: accounting, finance, management information systems, management science, marketing, production/operations management, and a combination of insurance/international business/real estate. For each discipline, several top-tier journals were identified and productivity was gauged by the number of pages published by school faculty in each journal during the selected time period.
Research productivity was also investigated in a paper recently published in Advances in Accounting , which named several Smeal faculty members among the most prolific authors of accounting literature. Orie Barron, Anne Beatty, Mark Dirsmith, J. Edward Ketz, James McKeown, and Charles Smith were mentioned.
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