| dc.description.abstract | By collecting papers published in SCIE publications by Taiwan management students and scholars during 1999 to 2003 from the ISI website, this paper investigated the academic performance of Taiwan in six management subfields (Accounting, Financial Management, General Management, Marketing, Information Management and Production Management) over this period according to the Management International Journals Ranking Research directed by Professor Ting-peng Liang (NSC Project # NSC92-2416-H-110-005).
In addition to calculating the volume of publications in these subfields, this paper combined subfields that are homogeneous in nature (Financial Management and Accounting into Finance and Accounting, General Management and Marketing into Business Administration) as the volume of publications in some subfields was insignificant.
Findings indicated, Production Management, Information Management and General Management are a global research trend in general, also Production Management and Information Management are the focus of Taiwan. The total volume of papers increased annually both in the world and in Taiwan. The increase of papers in General Management, Information Management and Financial Management in the world over the period was small but significant; and that in Marketing and Accounting was rather slow and even none. Yet, the increase of papers in Information Management in Taiwan was significant (40% annual increasing) and is ranked at the top worldwide.
Of the world’s total publications, the percentage of publications from Taiwan rose slightly annually. The percentage of Production Management publications in Taiwan was at the top worldwide over the period. The percentage of Information Management publications increased significantly every year, and the percentage in 2003 was close to the percentage of Production Management publications. From the viewpoint of global competiveness, the performance of Taiwan in Information Management has caught up with that of Production Management.
Analysis of the performance in these subfields of different schools and the radar chart indicated, every focused school in Taiwan has its own characteristics and field of specialization. The performance of private and technology schools in some popular subfields, such as Production Management and Information Management, was quite good. Moreover, national universities had better performance in interdisciplinary studies.
In future studies, domestic journals and their ranks should be included and the volume of NSC research projects should be considered in order to assess the contribution of international and domestic academic research. | en_US |