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Corporate Governance and Management

Corporate Governance and Management is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 34k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers various aspects of business management in the information age, including the impact of information technology, reconfiguration of value chains, digital capital, accrual accounting, customer retention management, investment decisions, network organization management, supply chain controlling, customer relationship management, and strategic marketing.

  • Information Technology
  • Value Chains
  • Digital Capital
  • Accrual Accounting
  • Customer Retention Management
  • Investment Decisions
  • Network Organization Management
  • Supply Chain Controlling
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Strategic Marketing
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
81% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Corporate Governance and Management

Which countries lead Corporate Governance and Management research?

By volume, Germany and Austria publish the most (3.4k and 237 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 3.4k works
  2. 2 Austria 237 works
  3. 3 Switzerland 227 works
  4. 4 United States 174 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 58 works
  6. 6 India 26 works
  7. 7 Italy 23 works
  8. 8 Netherlands 19 works
  9. 9 China 19 works
  10. 10 ?? 14 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Germany: 80.9%Austria: 5.7%Switzerland: 5.4%United States: 4.2%6 others listed: 3.8%81%largest
Germany3,382 · 80.9%Austria237 · 5.7%Switzerland227 · 5.4%United States174 · 4.2%6 others listed160 · 3.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Corporate Governance and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, München Klinik publishes the most Corporate Governance and Management research, followed by IU International University of Applied Sciences and FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 München KlinikGermany 97 works
  2. 2 IU International University of Applied SciencesGermany 59 works
  3. 3 FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and ManagementGermany 53 works
  4. 4 Deloitte (United States)United States 52 works
  5. 5 Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied SciencesGermany 49 works
  6. 6 Stuttgart ObservatoryGermany 47 works
  7. 7 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 44 works
  8. 8 Berufskolleg Am WasserturmGermany 38 works
  9. 9 University of BaselSwitzerland 38 works
  10. 10 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Corporate Governance and Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Corporate Governance and Management include Marko Sarstedt, Christian M. Ringle and Ronald Klein.

  1. 1 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  2. 2 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  3. 3 Ronald Klein United States 214k citations
  4. 4 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  5. 5 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  6. 6 Jens Juul Holst Denmark 163k citations
  7. 7 Joseph F. Hair United States 163k citations
  8. 8 Richard P. Bagozzi United States 148k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Corporate Governance and Management?

The most cited paper in Corporate Governance and Management is "Industrial Marketing Management" (Peter J. LaPlaca, 2008), with 616 citations. Next come "Modeling and Managing Student Loyalty" (597) and "Service productivity" (596).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Industrial Marketing Management Peter J. LaPlaca · Industrial Marketing Management 3 Mar 2008 616
2 Modeling and Managing Student Loyalty Thorsten Hennig‐Thurau, Markus F. Langer, Ursula Hansen · Journal of Service Research May 2001 597
3 Service productivity Christian Grönroos, Katri Ojasalo · Journal of Business Research 30 Oct 2002 596
4 The Social Constitution of Trust: Supplier Relations in Britain and Germany Christel O. Lane, Reinhard Bachmann · Organization Studies Open access May 1996 487
5 Service engineering—methodical development of new service products Hans‐Jörg Bullinger, Klaus‐Peter Fähnrich, Thomas Meiren · International Journal of Production Economics 21 Jun 2003 463
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Where is Corporate Governance and Management research done?

The largest centres of Corporate Governance and Management research in 2022-now are Munich (Germany), Berlin (Germany), Stuttgart (Germany) and Vienna (Austria). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bocholt, Riedlingen and Schkeuditz.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MunichGermany 249 works
  2. 2 BerlinGermany 212 works
  3. 3 StuttgartGermany 179 works
  4. 4 ViennaAustria 128 works
  5. 5 EssenGermany 98 works
  6. 6 HamburgGermany 91 works
  7. 7 DüsseldorfGermany 81 works
  8. 8 CologneGermany 78 works
  9. 9 WiesbadenGermany 76 works
  10. 10 DortmundGermany 71 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BocholtDE · 38.0 works1459×
  2. RiedlingenDE · 21.0 works620×
  3. SchkeuditzDE · 26.5 works347×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Corporate Governance and Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Corporate Governance and Management?

Among universities, judged by research, RWTH Aachen University, Technical University of Munich and IU International University of Applied Sciences score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 16.89%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →RWTH Aachen UniversityTU Dortmund UniversityTechnical University…IU International Uni…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 84.034.1%12.3×35 +7.4%
2Technical University of MunichGermany 74.219.8%10.2×32 +12.6%
3IU International University of Applied SciencesGermany 71.213.8%368.0×59 +134.3%
4TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 68.422.0%25.4×24 +22.1%
5Technische Hochschule IngolstadtGermany 67.021.2%146.5×16 +8.7%
6Hochschule OsnabrückGermany 64.718.9%249.2×28 +23.0%
7University of BaselSwitzerland 63.89.6%27.6×38 -0.2%
8Leibniz University HannoverGermany 63.116.2%19.8×21 +247.8%
9WHU – Otto Beisheim School of ManagementGermany 62.75.6%382.8×25 +17.1%
10FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and ManagementGermany 59.07.7%376.6×53 +5.4%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Corporate Governance and Management, country by country

Is Corporate Governance and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Corporate Governance and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Corporate Governance and Management0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Corporate Governance and Management over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Corporate Governance and Management9.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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