TY - JOUR
T1 - Uncovering the multidisciplinary nature of technology management
T2 - Journal citation network analysis
AU - Lee, Hakyeon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2014
PY - 2015/1
Y1 - 2015/1
N2 - Technology management (TM) is multidisciplinary in nature. This paper investigates the multidisciplinary characteristics of TM through journal citation network analysis. The TM network composed of ten TM specialty journals and relevant journals of other disciplines is constructed based on their citation relationships. In particular, the relatedness index is employed to capture the citation relationships between journals with consideration of different journal sizes. Scrutinizing the network reveals what disciplines have contributed to TM and to what disciplines TM has contributed. The role of TM journals in exchanging knowledge with other disciplines is also identified by using brokerage analysis. TM is shown to have a high degree of interaction with six disciplines: Business and Management, Marketing, Economics, Planning and Development, Information Science, and Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. It is shown that visualizing and analyzing the TM network can provide an excellent overview of its multidisciplinary structure in terms of knowledge flow. This can help TM researchers easily grasp the historical development and fundamental features of TM.
AB - Technology management (TM) is multidisciplinary in nature. This paper investigates the multidisciplinary characteristics of TM through journal citation network analysis. The TM network composed of ten TM specialty journals and relevant journals of other disciplines is constructed based on their citation relationships. In particular, the relatedness index is employed to capture the citation relationships between journals with consideration of different journal sizes. Scrutinizing the network reveals what disciplines have contributed to TM and to what disciplines TM has contributed. The role of TM journals in exchanging knowledge with other disciplines is also identified by using brokerage analysis. TM is shown to have a high degree of interaction with six disciplines: Business and Management, Marketing, Economics, Planning and Development, Information Science, and Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. It is shown that visualizing and analyzing the TM network can provide an excellent overview of its multidisciplinary structure in terms of knowledge flow. This can help TM researchers easily grasp the historical development and fundamental features of TM.
KW - Brokerage analysis
KW - Journal citation network
KW - Multidisciplinary
KW - Technology Management
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U2 - 10.1007/s11192-014-1350-3
DO - 10.1007/s11192-014-1350-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84937784172
SN - 0138-9130
VL - 102
SP - 51
EP - 75
JO - Scientometrics
JF - Scientometrics
IS - 1
M1 - A004
ER -