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The Geographic Diversity of Editorial Boards

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  • With the increasing globalisation of knowledge and management education, it is important that we build on our scanty understanding of trends and levels of geographic diversification in editorial board membership of management journals.

  • Our study examines geographic diversity in editorial boards in Management over a 20-year period. It uses secondary data from 57 journals covering approximately 16,000 editorial board members.

  • We found that the geographic diversity of editorial boards (EBs) has increased in the last 20 years, but it is still low for most management journals. Further, two factors partly predict the geographic diversity of EBs of management journals: the editor’s country of residence and the field of research.

  • Continued active management by editors, professional associations and individual academics alike is necessary to ensure that our editorial boards properly reflect the diverse management community.

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  1. Although we can only speculate about the reasons for the increase in the average size of editorial boards, we suggest this was partly due to the increasing number of submissions experienced by most journals, as more and more academics are expected to publish in a limited set of journals.

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  1. Department of Management, Faculty of Business & Economics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

    Anne-Wil Harzing

  2. Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia

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Harzing, AW., Metz, I. Practicing what We Preach. Manag Int Rev 53, 169–187 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-011-0124-x

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