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Business School Rankings: Rankings Bibliography

This guide features a central place to find information about current and historical business school rankings. The guide was originally designed and developed by Bob Hebert of Wake Forest University.

B-school Ranking Bibiography

 Journal Articles about Business School Rankings

Baden-Fuller, Charles, and Fabiola Ravazzolo. "Making and Measuring Reputations." Long range Planning 33 (2000): 621. 

Bloom, Paul N., and Lisa R. Szykman. "How Comparative Product Information Affects Consumers and Competition: The Effects of the Business Week and US. News & World Report Ratings." Advances in Consumer Research 25 (1998): 433-9. 

Dichev, Ilia D. "How Good are Business School Rankings?" Journal of Business 72 (1999): 201-13. 

Fee, C. Edward, Charles J. Hadlock, and Joshua R. Pierce. "Business School Rankings and Business School Deans: A Study of Nonprofit Governance." Financial Management 34 (2000): 143-66. 

Gioia, Dennis A. and Corley, Kevin G. “Being Good Versus Looking good: Business School Rankings and the Cirean Transformation From Substance to Image.” Academy of Management Learning and Education 1 (2002): 107-120.

Halperin, Michael, Robert Hebert, and Edward Lusk. "Comparing the Rankings of MBA Curricula: Do Methodologies Matter?" Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship 14, no.1, 2009: 47-62.

Holbrook, Morris B. “Gratitudes and Latitudes in M.B.A Attitudes: Customer Orientation and the Business Week Poll.” Marketing Letters 4 (1993): 267-278.

Holbrook, Morris B. "Gratitude in Graduate MBA Attitudes: Re-Examining the Business Week Poll." Journal of Education for Business 80 (2004): 25-8.

Martins, Luis L. "A Model of the Effects of Reputational Rankings on Organizational Change." Organization Science 16 (2005): 701-20. 

Rindova, Violina P., et al. "Being Good Or being Known: An Empirical Examination of the Dimensions, Antecedents, and Consequences of Organizational Reputation." Academyof Management Journal 48 (2005): 1033-49. 

Siemens, Jennifer Christie, et al. "An Examination of the Relationship between Research Productivity in Prestigious Business Journals and Popular Press Business School Rankings." Journal of Business Research 58 (2005): 467-76. 

Tracy, Joseph, and Joel Waldfogel. "The Best Business Schools: A Market-Based Approach." Journal of Business 70 (1997): 1. 

Trieschmann, James S., et al. "Serving Constituencies in Business Schools: M.B.A. Program Versus Research Performance." Academy of Management Journal 43 (2000): 1130-41. 

Zell,Deone. "The Market-Driven Business School: Has the Pendulum Swung Too Far?" Journal of Management Inquiry 10 (2001): 324.

 

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