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Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

  • 1.  Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Posted 02-04-2016 13:54
    I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.

    It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:

    https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/

    For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.

    Thoughts?

    Alex


    ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well



    Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
    Marquette University
    Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
    Office: 414 288-7188
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  • 2.  Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Posted 02-04-2016 15:50
    Perhaps an article published in a prominent journal or a white paper from a prestigious organization such as the Academy of Management on the pricing power of the major journal publishers might catch the attention of the appropriate antitrust/competition agencies?  

    The antitrust community has shown interest in business scholarship. See, e.g., http://antitrustinstitute.org/2014symposium 

    Norman Hawker
    Finance and Commercial Law
    Haworth College of Business
    Western Michigan University




    From: "Alex Stewart" <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:54:22 PM
    Subject: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.

    It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:

    https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/

    For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.

    Thoughts?

    Alex


    ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well



    Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
    Marquette University
    Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
    Office: 414 288-7188
    _______________________________________________________________________

    To send a message to the list, send your email to SIM@aomlists.pace.edu

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  • 3.  Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Posted 02-04-2016 16:00
    Concur. The question is why do WE work for them for free? 

    Most journals don't even provide a subscription to their most faithful and longstanding reviewers. Talk about low cost labor.

    Martin Calkins, PhD

    Senior Associate Dean

    College of Management

    University of Massachusetts Boston

    100 Morrissey Boulevard

    Boston, MA 02125


    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
    Reply-To: Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
    Date: Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 3:50 PM
    To: "SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU" <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>
    Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Perhaps an article published in a prominent journal or a white paper from a prestigious organization such as the Academy of Management on the pricing power of the major journal publishers might catch the attention of the appropriate antitrust/competition agencies?  

    The antitrust community has shown interest in business scholarship. See, e.g., http://antitrustinstitute.org/2014symposium 

    Norman Hawker
    Finance and Commercial Law
    Haworth College of Business
    Western Michigan University




    From: "Alex Stewart" <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:54:22 PM
    Subject: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.

    It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:

    https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/

    For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.

    Thoughts?

    Alex


    ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well



    Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
    Marquette University
    Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
    Office: 414 288-7188
    _______________________________________________________________________

    To send a message to the list, send your email to SIM@aomlists.pace.edu

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  • 4.  Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Posted 02-04-2016 16:08

    No doubt the current system is out of whack. We're not the first to recognize it. There's been considerable movement in some fields and at some universities. There's been a fair bit written about it. And, indeed, there are ways out of this, but they have drawbacks and are difficult to implement, mostly because our recognition and reward systems mitigate against it. My sense is that it would take action from a coalition of major universities such as the Ivy League, Big Ten, etc. to reorient how we approach tenure and promotion in a way that would enable us to climb out of this hole.

     

    Best,

    Mike

     

    *****

    Michael L. Barnett

    Professor, Management & Global Business

    Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

    http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/michael-barnett

    View my research papers at: http://ssrn.com/author=414796

    Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=27_fCmIAAAAJ&hl=en

     

     

     

     

    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Calkins
    Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:00 PM
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     

    Concur. The question is why do WE work for them for free? 

     

    Most journals don't even provide a subscription to their most faithful and longstanding reviewers. Talk about low cost labor.

     

    Martin Calkins, PhD

    Senior Associate Dean

    College of Management

    University of Massachusetts Boston

    100 Morrissey Boulevard

    Boston, MA 02125

     

    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
    Reply-To: Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
    Date: Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 3:50 PM
    To: "SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU" <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>
    Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     

    Perhaps an article published in a prominent journal or a white paper from a prestigious organization such as the Academy of Management on the pricing power of the major journal publishers might catch the attention of the appropriate antitrust/competition agencies?  

     

    The antitrust community has shown interest in business scholarship. See, e.g., http://antitrustinstitute.org/2014symposium 

     

    Norman Hawker

    Finance and Commercial Law

    Haworth College of Business

    Western Michigan University

     

     


    From: "Alex Stewart" <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:54:22 PM
    Subject: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.

    It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:

    https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/

    For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.

    Thoughts?

    Alex

     

    ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well

     

     

    Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
    Marquette University
    Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
    Office: 414 288-7188

    _______________________________________________________________________

    To send a message to the list, send your email to SIM@aomlists.pace.edu

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    Visit the SIM Division website at: http://sim.aomonline.org _______________________________________________________________________

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  • 5.  Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Posted 02-04-2016 18:29

    Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have all resigned to protest pricing practices. They plan a new open-access journal. `

     

    https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees

     

    Best,

     

     

    JP.

     

     

    ______

     

    Jean-Philippe VERGNE

    Assistant Professor of Strategy

    F. W. P. Jones Faculty Fellow

    Ivey Business School | Western University

    [ website | www.cryptocapitalism.center ]

     

     

     

     

    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Barnett, Michael L.
    Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:08 PM
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     

    No doubt the current system is out of whack. We're not the first to recognize it. There's been considerable movement in some fields and at some universities. There's been a fair bit written about it. And, indeed, there are ways out of this, but they have drawbacks and are difficult to implement, mostly because our recognition and reward systems mitigate against it. My sense is that it would take action from a coalition of major universities such as the Ivy League, Big Ten, etc. to reorient how we approach tenure and promotion in a way that would enable us to climb out of this hole.

     

    Best,

    Mike

     

    *****

    Michael L. Barnett

    Professor, Management & Global Business

    Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

    http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/michael-barnett

    View my research papers at: http://ssrn.com/author=414796

    Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=27_fCmIAAAAJ&hl=en

     

     

     

     

    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Calkins
    Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:00 PM
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     

    Concur. The question is why do WE work for them for free? 

     

    Most journals don't even provide a subscription to their most faithful and longstanding reviewers. Talk about low cost labor.

     

    Martin Calkins, PhD

    Senior Associate Dean

    College of Management

    University of Massachusetts Boston

    100 Morrissey Boulevard

    Boston, MA 02125

     

    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
    Reply-To: Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
    Date: Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 3:50 PM
    To: "SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU" <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>
    Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     

    Perhaps an article published in a prominent journal or a white paper from a prestigious organization such as the Academy of Management on the pricing power of the major journal publishers might catch the attention of the appropriate antitrust/competition agencies?  

     

    The antitrust community has shown interest in business scholarship. See, e.g., http://antitrustinstitute.org/2014symposium 

     

    Norman Hawker

    Finance and Commercial Law

    Haworth College of Business

    Western Michigan University

     

     


    From: "Alex Stewart" <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:54:22 PM
    Subject: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.

    It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:

    https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/

    For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.

    Thoughts?

    Alex

     

    ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well

     

     

    Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
    Marquette University
    Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
    Office: 414 288-7188

    _______________________________________________________________________

    To send a message to the list, send your email to SIM@aomlists.pace.edu

    _______________________________________________________________________

    Visit the SIM Division website at: http://sim.aomonline.org _______________________________________________________________________

    If you wish to unsubscribe from this list or change your delivery options, you can do so online at: http://aomlists.pace.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=sim&A=1 _______________________________________________________________________

     

    _______________________________________________________________________

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  • 6.  Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Posted 02-04-2016 18:53

    way to go




    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Vergne, Jean-Philippe <jvergne@IVEY.UWO.CA>
    Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 6:29 PM
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     

    Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have all resigned to protest pricing practices. They plan a new open-access journal. `

     

    https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees

    The six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have all resigned to protest Elsevier pricing. They plan a new open-access journal.

     

    Best,

     

     

    JP.

     

     

    ______

     

    Jean-Philippe VERGNE

    Assistant Professor of Strategy

    F. W. P. Jones Faculty Fellow

    Ivey Business School | Western University

    [ website | www.cryptocapitalism.center ]

     

     

     

     

    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Barnett, Michael L.
    Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:08 PM
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     

    No doubt the current system is out of whack. We're not the first to recognize it. There's been considerable movement in some fields and at some universities. There's been a fair bit written about it. And, indeed, there are ways out of this, but they have drawbacks and are difficult to implement, mostly because our recognition and reward systems mitigate against it. My sense is that it would take action from a coalition of major universities such as the Ivy League, Big Ten, etc. to reorient how we approach tenure and promotion in a way that would enable us to climb out of this hole.

     

    Best,

    Mike

     

    *****

    Michael L. Barnett

    Professor, Management & Global Business

    Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

    http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/michael-barnett

    View my research papers at: http://ssrn.com/author=414796

    Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=27_fCmIAAAAJ&hl=en

     

     

     

     

    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Calkins
    Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:00 PM
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     

    Concur. The question is why do WE work for them for free? 

     

    Most journals don't even provide a subscription to their most faithful and longstanding reviewers. Talk about low cost labor.

     

    Martin Calkins, PhD

    Senior Associate Dean

    College of Management

    University of Massachusetts Boston

    100 Morrissey Boulevard

    Boston, MA 02125

     

    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
    Reply-To: Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
    Date: Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 3:50 PM
    To: "SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU" <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>
    Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     

    Perhaps an article published in a prominent journal or a white paper from a prestigious organization such as the Academy of Management on the pricing power of the major journal publishers might catch the attention of the appropriate antitrust/competition agencies?  

     

    The antitrust community has shown interest in business scholarship. See, e.g., http://antitrustinstitute.org/2014symposium 

     

    Norman Hawker

    Finance and Commercial Law

    Haworth College of Business

    Western Michigan University

     

     


    From: "Alex Stewart" <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:54:22 PM
    Subject: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.

    It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:

    https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/

    For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.

    Thoughts?

    Alex

     

    ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well

     

     

    Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
    Marquette University
    Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
    Office: 414 288-7188

    _______________________________________________________________________

    To send a message to the list, send your email to SIM@aomlists.pace.edu

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  • 7.  Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Posted 02-04-2016 21:23

    I just finished writing up a cheeky blog on this very topic

    http://valentemike.blogspot.ca/2016/02/lets-talk-about-academic-publishing.html

    PS:  For those of us in business schools...come on...let's be honest with ourselves.  It's these sorts of value appropriating business models that we applaud in any strategic management course!



    "Vergne, Jean-Philippe" ---02/04/2016 06:29:25 PM---Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have

    From: "Vergne, Jean-Philippe" <jvergne@IVEY.UWO.CA>
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Date: 02/04/2016 06:29 PM
    Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
    Sent by: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>





    Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have all resigned to protest pricing practices. They plan a new open-access journal. `
     
    https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees
     
    Best,
     
     
    JP.
     
     
    ______
     
    Jean-Philippe VERGNE
    Assistant Professor of Strategy
    F. W. P. Jones Faculty Fellow
    Ivey Business School | Western University
    [ website | www.cryptocapitalism.center ]
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Barnett, Michael L.
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:08 PM
    To:
     SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
     Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     
    No doubt the current system is out of whack. We're not the first to recognize it. There's been considerable movement in some fields and at some universities. There's been a fair bit written about it. And, indeed, there are ways out of this, but they have drawbacks and are difficult to implement, mostly because our recognition and reward systems mitigate against it. My sense is that it would take action from a coalition of major universities such as the Ivy League, Big Ten, etc. to reorient how we approach tenure and promotion in a way that would enable us to climb out of this hole.
     
    Best,
    Mike
     
    *****
    Michael L. Barnett
    Professor, Management & Global Business
    Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/michael-barnett
    View my research papers at: http://ssrn.com/author=414796
    Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=27_fCmIAAAAJ&hl=en
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Calkins
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:00 PM
    To:
     SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
     Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     
    Concur. The question is why do WE work for them for free?
     
    Most journals don't even provide a subscription to their most faithful and longstanding reviewers. Talk about low cost labor.
     
    Martin Calkins, PhD
    Senior Associate Dean
    College of Management
    University of Massachusetts Boston
    100 Morrissey Boulevard
    Boston, MA 02125
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
    Reply-To:
    Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
    Date:
    Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 3:50 PM
    To:
    "SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU" <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>
    Subject:
    Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     
    Perhaps an article published in a prominent journal or a white paper from a prestigious organization such as the Academy of Management on the pricing power of the major journal publishers might catch the attention of the appropriate antitrust/competition agencies?  
     
    The antitrust community has shown interest in business scholarship. See, e.g., http://antitrustinstitute.org/2014symposium 
     
    Norman Hawker
    Finance and Commercial Law
    Haworth College of Business
    Western Michigan University
     
     

      From: "Alex Stewart" <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
      To:
      SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
      Sent:
      Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:54:22 PM
      Subject:
      [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

      I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.

      It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:
      https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/
      For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.
      Thoughts?
      Alex
       
      ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well
       
       
      Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
      Professor of Management
      Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
      Marquette University
      Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
      Office: 414 288-7188

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  • 8.  Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Posted 02-04-2016 21:44
    Thank you Alex and Mike, I share some of your feelings about this. We as academics engaged in a gift economy with one and another, while the  large publishing  companies are using our gift exchange to increase their profits and power. They do not even fund our research. Most of our research is funded by  taxpayers, it is only fair that citizens have access to the results of that research. In Canada, there was a proposal a few years  about  making journals and papers accessible after a period of time of being published, I don't know what happened with it. 

    This is another instance  of socializing costs and privatizing gains. 

    Ana Maria

    On 4 Feb 2016, at 6:23 PM, Mike Valente <MValente@SCHULICH.YORKU.CA> wrote:

    I just finished writing up a cheeky blog on this very topic

    http://valentemike.blogspot.ca/2016/02/lets-talk-about-academic-publishing.html

    PS:  For those of us in business schools...come on...let's be honest with ourselves.  It's these sorts of value appropriating business models that we applaud in any strategic management course!



    <graycol.gif>"Vergne, Jean-Philippe" ---02/04/2016 06:29:25 PM---Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have

    From: "Vergne, Jean-Philippe" <jvergne@IVEY.UWO.CA>
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Date: 02/04/2016 06:29 PM
    Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
    Sent by: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>





    Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have all resigned to protest pricing practices. They plan a new open-access journal. `
     
    https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees
     
    Best,
     
     
    JP.
     
     
    ______
     
    Jean-Philippe VERGNE
    Assistant Professor of Strategy
    F. W. P. Jones Faculty Fellow
    Ivey Business School | Western University
    [ website | www.cryptocapitalism.center ]
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Barnett, Michael L.
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:08 PM
    To:
     SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
     Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     
    No doubt the current system is out of whack. We're not the first to recognize it. There's been considerable movement in some fields and at some universities. There's been a fair bit written about it. And, indeed, there are ways out of this, but they have drawbacks and are difficult to implement, mostly because our recognition and reward systems mitigate against it. My sense is that it would take action from a coalition of major universities such as the Ivy League, Big Ten, etc. to reorient how we approach tenure and promotion in a way that would enable us to climb out of this hole.
     
    Best,
    Mike
     
    *****
    Michael L. Barnett
    Professor, Management & Global Business
    Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/michael-barnett
    View my research papers at: http://ssrn.com/author=414796
    Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=27_fCmIAAAAJ&hl=en
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Calkins
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:00 PM
    To:
     SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
     Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     
    Concur. The question is why do WE work for them for free?
     
    Most journals don't even provide a subscription to their most faithful and longstanding reviewers. Talk about low cost labor.
     
    Martin Calkins, PhD
    Senior Associate Dean
    College of Management
    University of Massachusetts Boston
    100 Morrissey Boulevard
    Boston, MA 02125
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
    Reply-To:
    Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
    Date:
    Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 3:50 PM
    To:
    "SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU" <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>
    Subject:
    Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     
    Perhaps an article published in a prominent journal or a white paper from a prestigious organization such as the Academy of Management on the pricing power of the major journal publishers might catch the attention of the appropriate antitrust/competition agencies?  
     
    The antitrust community has shown interest in business scholarship. See, e.g., http://antitrustinstitute.org/2014symposium 
     
    Norman Hawker
    Finance and Commercial Law
    Haworth College of Business
    Western Michigan University
     
     

      From: "Alex Stewart" <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
      To:
      SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
      Sent:
      Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:54:22 PM
      Subject:
      [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

      I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.

      It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:
      https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/
      For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.
      Thoughts?
      Alex
       
      ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well
       
       
      Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
      Professor of Management
      Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
      Marquette University
      Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
      Office: 414 288-7188

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  • 9.  Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Posted 02-04-2016 23:20
    Dear Friends,

    So glad to see this conversation. We are partly responsible for this 'marketization' of research and its consequent vulnerabilities. I can tell you the effect is much worse in developing countries like India having 4000 + business schools.

    I want to write on the effect of publishing cartels on emerging economies- will any of you be interested to join ?

    regards

    Subhasis Ray, PhD
    Professor of Marketing
    Co-ordinator
    Centre for Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Corporate Social Responsibility
    Xavier Institute of Management
    Xavier University
    India



    On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Ana Maria Peredo <aperedo@uvic.ca> wrote:
    Thank you Alex and Mike, I share some of your feelings about this. We as academics engaged in a gift economy with one and another, while the  large publishing  companies are using our gift exchange to increase their profits and power. They do not even fund our research. Most of our research is funded by  taxpayers, it is only fair that citizens have access to the results of that research. In Canada, there was a proposal a few years  about  making journals and papers accessible after a period of time of being published, I don't know what happened with it. 

    This is another instance  of socializing costs and privatizing gains. 

    Ana Maria

    On 4 Feb 2016, at 6:23 PM, Mike Valente <MValente@SCHULICH.YORKU.CA> wrote:

    I just finished writing up a cheeky blog on this very topic

    http://valentemike.blogspot.ca/2016/02/lets-talk-about-academic-publishing.html

    PS:  For those of us in business schools...come on...let's be honest with ourselves.  It's these sorts of value appropriating business models that we applaud in any strategic management course!



    <graycol.gif>"Vergne, Jean-Philippe" ---02/04/2016 06:29:25 PM---Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have

    From: "Vergne, Jean-Philippe" <jvergne@IVEY.UWO.CA>
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Date: 02/04/2016 06:29 PM
    Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
    Sent by: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>





    Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have all resigned to protest pricing practices. They plan a new open-access journal. `
     
    https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees
     
    Best,
     
     
    JP.
     
     
    ______
     
    Jean-Philippe VERGNE
    Assistant Professor of Strategy
    F. W. P. Jones Faculty Fellow
    Ivey Business School | Western University
    [ website | www.cryptocapitalism.center ]
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Barnett, Michael L.
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:08 PM
    To:
     SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
     Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     
    No doubt the current system is out of whack. We're not the first to recognize it. There's been considerable movement in some fields and at some universities. There's been a fair bit written about it. And, indeed, there are ways out of this, but they have drawbacks and are difficult to implement, mostly because our recognition and reward systems mitigate against it. My sense is that it would take action from a coalition of major universities such as the Ivy League, Big Ten, etc. to reorient how we approach tenure and promotion in a way that would enable us to climb out of this hole.
     
    Best,
    Mike
     
    *****
    Michael L. Barnett
    Professor, Management & Global Business
    Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/michael-barnett
    View my research papers at: http://ssrn.com/author=414796
    Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=27_fCmIAAAAJ&hl=en
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Calkins
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:00 PM
    To:
     SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
     Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     
    Concur. The question is why do WE work for them for free?
     
    Most journals don't even provide a subscription to their most faithful and longstanding reviewers. Talk about low cost labor.
     
    Martin Calkins, PhD
    Senior Associate Dean
    College of Management
    University of Massachusetts Boston
    100 Morrissey Boulevard
    Boston, MA 02125
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
    Reply-To:
    Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
    Date:
    Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 3:50 PM
    To:
    "SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU" <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>
    Subject:
    Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     
    Perhaps an article published in a prominent journal or a white paper from a prestigious organization such as the Academy of Management on the pricing power of the major journal publishers might catch the attention of the appropriate antitrust/competition agencies?  
     
    The antitrust community has shown interest in business scholarship. See, e.g., http://antitrustinstitute.org/2014symposium 
     
    Norman Hawker
    Finance and Commercial Law
    Haworth College of Business
    Western Michigan University
     
     

      From: "Alex Stewart" <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
      To:
      SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
      Sent:
      Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:54:22 PM
      Subject:
      [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

      I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.

      It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:
      https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/
      For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.
      Thoughts?
      Alex
       
      ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well
       
       
      Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
      Professor of Management
      Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
      Marquette University
      Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
      Office: 414 288-7188

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  • 10.  Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Posted 02-05-2016 06:03

    Super conversation. As in Spain, where 2 unknown parties 4 years ago (Podemos and Ciudadanos) caught close to 40% of the votes almost overnight, why do not we as scholars change the game and create our own journals ? But then we have to manage them, which poses the question of being recognized for it by our institutions – or the State. Some journals allow for dissemination on peer to peer platforms a few months after the paper has been published.

     

    Alain KLARSFELD
    Chercheur au groupe TES

    Professeur de management et ressources humaines

    Responsable du Département ORRH
    Toulouse Business School
    a.klarsfeld@tbs-education.fr
    Tél : +33 (0)5 61 29 48 94
    Mob : +33 (0)6 65 36 62 74

    www.tbs-education.fr

     

     

    De : Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] De la part de S Ray
    Envoyé : vendredi 5 février 2016 05:20
    À : SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Objet : Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     

    Dear Friends,

    So glad to see this conversation. We are partly responsible for this 'marketization' of research and its consequent vulnerabilities. I can tell you the effect is much worse in developing countries like India having 4000 + business schools.

    I want to write on the effect of publishing cartels on emerging economies- will any of you be interested to join ?

    regards


    Subhasis Ray, PhD

    Professor of Marketing
    Co-ordinator

    Centre for Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Corporate Social Responsibility

    Xavier Institute of Management

    Xavier University

    India

     

     

    On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Ana Maria Peredo <aperedo@uvic.ca> wrote:

    Thank you Alex and Mike, I share some of your feelings about this. We as academics engaged in a gift economy with one and another, while the  large publishing  companies are using our gift exchange to increase their profits and power. They do not even fund our research. Most of our research is funded by  taxpayers, it is only fair that citizens have access to the results of that research. In Canada, there was a proposal a few years  about  making journals and papers accessible after a period of time of being published, I don't know what happened with it. 

     

    This is another instance  of socializing costs and privatizing gains. 

     

    Ana Maria

     

    On 4 Feb 2016, at 6:23 PM, Mike Valente <MValente@SCHULICH.YORKU.CA> wrote:

     

    I just finished writing up a cheeky blog on this very topic

    http://valentemike.blogspot.ca/2016/02/lets-talk-about-academic-publishing.html

    PS:  For those of us in business schools...come on...let's be honest with ourselves.  It's these sorts of value appropriating business models that we applaud in any strategic management course!



    <graycol.gif>"Vergne, Jean-Philippe" ---02/04/2016 06:29:25 PM---Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have

    From: "Vergne, Jean-Philippe" <jvergne@IVEY.UWO.CA>
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    Date: 02/04/2016 06:29 PM
    Subject: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
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    Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have all resigned to protest pricing practices. They plan a new open-access journal. `
     
    https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees
     
    Best,
     
     
    JP.
     
     
    ______
     
    Jean-Philippe VERGNE
    Assistant Professor of Strategy
    F. W. P. Jones Faculty Fellow
    Ivey Business School | Western University
    [ website | www.cryptocapitalism.center ]
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Barnett, Michael L.
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:08 PM
    To:
     SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
     Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     
    No doubt the current system is out of whack. We're not the first to recognize it. There's been considerable movement in some fields and at some universities. There's been a fair bit written about it. And, indeed, there are ways out of this, but they have drawbacks and are difficult to implement, mostly because our recognition and reward systems mitigate against it. My sense is that it would take action from a coalition of major universities such as the Ivy League, Big Ten, etc. to reorient how we approach tenure and promotion in a way that would enable us to climb out of this hole.
     
    Best,
    Mike
     
    *****
    Michael L. Barnett
    Professor, Management & Global Business
    Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/michael-barnett
    View my research papers at: http://ssrn.com/author=414796
    Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=27_fCmIAAAAJ&hl=en
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Calkins
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:00 PM
    To:
     
    SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
     Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     
    Concur. The question is why do WE work for them for free?
     
    Most journals don't even provide a subscription to their most faithful and longstanding reviewers. Talk about low cost labor.
     
    Martin Calkins, PhD
    Senior Associate Dean
    College of Management
    University of Massachusetts Boston
    100 Morrissey Boulevard
    Boston, MA 02125
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
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    To:
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    SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU" <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>
    Subject:
    Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     
    Perhaps an article published in a prominent journal or a white paper from a prestigious organization such as the Academy of Management on the pricing power of the major journal publishers might catch the attention of the appropriate antitrust/competition agencies?  
     
    The antitrust community has shown interest in business scholarship. See, e.g., http://antitrustinstitute.org/2014symposium 
     
    Norman Hawker
    Finance and Commercial Law
    Haworth College of Business
    Western Michigan University
     
     


    From: "Alex Stewart" <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
    To:
    SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent:
    Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:54:22 PM
    Subject:
    [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.

    It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:
    https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/
    For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.
    Thoughts?
    Alex
     
    ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well
     
     
    Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
    Marquette University
    Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
    Office: 414 288-7188

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  • 11.  RES: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Posted 02-05-2016 07:24

    Dear colleagues,

     

    We are all hostages of publishing cartels, because the whole academic career system is grounded in scientific production.

    I completely agree that we must do something, after all... the power is only established if one side agrees to be subjugated.

     

    Professor Ray: I'd like to participate on your research in developing countries!

     

    Regards,

     

    Janaina Macke, Dr.

    Professor and Researcher

    Graduate Program in Business Administration

    Faculdade Meridional (IMED)

    Passo Fundo – Brazil

     

    CV: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4763596P0&idiomaExibicao=2

     

     

     

    De: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] Em nome de S Ray
    Enviada em: sexta-feira, 5 de fevereiro de 2016 02:20
    Para: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Assunto: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     

    Dear Friends,

    So glad to see this conversation. We are partly responsible for this 'marketization' of research and its consequent vulnerabilities. I can tell you the effect is much worse in developing countries like India having 4000 + business schools.

    I want to write on the effect of publishing cartels on emerging economies- will any of you be interested to join ?

    regards


    Subhasis Ray, PhD

    Professor of Marketing
    Co-ordinator

    Centre for Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Corporate Social Responsibility

    Xavier Institute of Management

    Xavier University

    India

     

     

    On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Ana Maria Peredo <aperedo@uvic.ca> wrote:

    Thank you Alex and Mike, I share some of your feelings about this. We as academics engaged in a gift economy with one and another, while the  large publishing  companies are using our gift exchange to increase their profits and power. They do not even fund our research. Most of our research is funded by  taxpayers, it is only fair that citizens have access to the results of that research. In Canada, there was a proposal a few years  about  making journals and papers accessible after a period of time of being published, I don't know what happened with it. 

     

    This is another instance  of socializing costs and privatizing gains. 

     

    Ana Maria

     

    On 4 Feb 2016, at 6:23 PM, Mike Valente <MValente@SCHULICH.YORKU.CA> wrote:

     

    I just finished writing up a cheeky blog on this very topic

    http://valentemike.blogspot.ca/2016/02/lets-talk-about-academic-publishing.html

    PS:  For those of us in business schools...come on...let's be honest with ourselves.  It's these sorts of value appropriating business models that we applaud in any strategic management course!



    <graycol.gif>"Vergne, Jean-Philippe" ---02/04/2016 06:29:25 PM---Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have

    From: "Vergne, Jean-Philippe" <jvergne@IVEY.UWO.CA>
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    Date: 02/04/2016 06:29 PM
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    Sent by: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>





    Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have all resigned to protest pricing practices. They plan a new open-access journal. `
     
    https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees
     
    Best,
     
     
    JP.
     
     
    ______
     
    Jean-Philippe VERGNE
    Assistant Professor of Strategy
    F. W. P. Jones Faculty Fellow
    Ivey Business School | Western University
    [ website | www.cryptocapitalism.center ]
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Barnett, Michael L.
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:08 PM
    To:
     SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
     Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     
    No doubt the current system is out of whack. We're not the first to recognize it. There's been considerable movement in some fields and at some universities. There's been a fair bit written about it. And, indeed, there are ways out of this, but they have drawbacks and are difficult to implement, mostly because our recognition and reward systems mitigate against it. My sense is that it would take action from a coalition of major universities such as the Ivy League, Big Ten, etc. to reorient how we approach tenure and promotion in a way that would enable us to climb out of this hole.
     
    Best,
    Mike
     
    *****
    Michael L. Barnett
    Professor, Management & Global Business
    Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/michael-barnett
    View my research papers at: http://ssrn.com/author=414796
    Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=27_fCmIAAAAJ&hl=en
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Calkins
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:00 PM
    To:
     
    SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
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    Concur. The question is why do WE work for them for free?
     
    Most journals don't even provide a subscription to their most faithful and longstanding reviewers. Talk about low cost labor.
     
    Martin Calkins, PhD
    Senior Associate Dean
    College of Management
    University of Massachusetts Boston
    100 Morrissey Boulevard
    Boston, MA 02125
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
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    To:
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    SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU" <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>
    Subject:
    Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     
    Perhaps an article published in a prominent journal or a white paper from a prestigious organization such as the Academy of Management on the pricing power of the major journal publishers might catch the attention of the appropriate antitrust/competition agencies?  
     
    The antitrust community has shown interest in business scholarship. See, e.g., http://antitrustinstitute.org/2014symposium 
     
    Norman Hawker
    Finance and Commercial Law
    Haworth College of Business
    Western Michigan University
     
     


    From: "Alex Stewart" <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
    To:
    SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent:
    Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:54:22 PM
    Subject:
    [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.

    It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:
    https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/
    For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.
    Thoughts?
    Alex
     
    ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well
     
     
    Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
    Marquette University
    Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
    Office: 414 288-7188

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  • 12.  RES: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Posted 02-05-2016 07:46

    I feel that "hard publishing" should be replaced by "soft publishing" wherein instead of hard copies, softer versions are available on the web.

    As far as the "ego" and "mania" is attached vis-a-vis a "publication house", let "open publishing" be encouraged which is open to peer-feedback on the web. What's wrong if X has a research paper "hard published" in a lesser-known journal with humbler quantitative/qualitative methods and Y has deployed advanced quantitative techniques to be published in a "hard publishing house journal".

    After all, "soft publication" would save paper, time and resources. In my view, "publication" should become "paperless".

    On Feb 5, 2016 6:04 PM, "Janaina Macke" <jmacke@terra.com.br> wrote:

    Dear colleagues,

     

    We are all hostages of publishing cartels, because the whole academic career system is grounded in scientific production.

    I completely agree that we must do something, after all... the power is only established if one side agrees to be subjugated.

     

    Professor Ray: I'd like to participate on your research in developing countries!

     

    Regards,

     

    Janaina Macke, Dr.

    Professor and Researcher

    Graduate Program in Business Administration

    Faculdade Meridional (IMED)

    Passo Fundo – Brazil

     

    CV: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4763596P0&idiomaExibicao=2

     

     

     

    De: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] Em nome de S Ray
    Enviada em: sexta-feira, 5 de fevereiro de 2016 02:20
    Para: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Assunto: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     

    Dear Friends,

    So glad to see this conversation. We are partly responsible for this 'marketization' of research and its consequent vulnerabilities. I can tell you the effect is much worse in developing countries like India having 4000 + business schools.

    I want to write on the effect of publishing cartels on emerging economies- will any of you be interested to join ?

    regards


    Subhasis Ray, PhD

    Professor of Marketing
    Co-ordinator

    Centre for Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Corporate Social Responsibility

    Xavier Institute of Management

    Xavier University

    India

     

     

    On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Ana Maria Peredo <aperedo@uvic.ca> wrote:

    Thank you Alex and Mike, I share some of your feelings about this. We as academics engaged in a gift economy with one and another, while the  large publishing  companies are using our gift exchange to increase their profits and power. They do not even fund our research. Most of our research is funded by  taxpayers, it is only fair that citizens have access to the results of that research. In Canada, there was a proposal a few years  about  making journals and papers accessible after a period of time of being published, I don't know what happened with it. 

     

    This is another instance  of socializing costs and privatizing gains. 

     

    Ana Maria

     

    On 4 Feb 2016, at 6:23 PM, Mike Valente <MValente@SCHULICH.YORKU.CA> wrote:

     

    I just finished writing up a cheeky blog on this very topic

    http://valentemike.blogspot.ca/2016/02/lets-talk-about-academic-publishing.html

    PS:  For those of us in business schools...come on...let's be honest with ourselves.  It's these sorts of value appropriating business models that we applaud in any strategic management course!



    <graycol.gif>"Vergne, Jean-Philippe" ---02/04/2016 06:29:25 PM---Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have

    From: "Vergne, Jean-Philippe" <jvergne@IVEY.UWO.CA>
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Date: 02/04/2016 06:29 PM
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    Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have all resigned to protest pricing practices. They plan a new open-access journal. `
     
    https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees
     
    Best,
     
     
    JP.
     
     
    ______
     
    Jean-Philippe VERGNE
    Assistant Professor of Strategy
    F. W. P. Jones Faculty Fellow
    Ivey Business School | Western University
    [ website | www.cryptocapitalism.center ]
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Barnett, Michael L.
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:08 PM
    To:
     SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
     Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     
    No doubt the current system is out of whack. We're not the first to recognize it. There's been considerable movement in some fields and at some universities. There's been a fair bit written about it. And, indeed, there are ways out of this, but they have drawbacks and are difficult to implement, mostly because our recognition and reward systems mitigate against it. My sense is that it would take action from a coalition of major universities such as the Ivy League, Big Ten, etc. to reorient how we approach tenure and promotion in a way that would enable us to climb out of this hole.
     
    Best,
    Mike
     
    *****
    Michael L. Barnett
    Professor, Management & Global Business
    Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/michael-barnett
    View my research papers at: http://ssrn.com/author=414796
    Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=27_fCmIAAAAJ&hl=en
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Calkins
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:00 PM
    To:
     
    SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
     Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     
    Concur. The question is why do WE work for them for free?
     
    Most journals don't even provide a subscription to their most faithful and longstanding reviewers. Talk about low cost labor.
     
    Martin Calkins, PhD
    Senior Associate Dean
    College of Management
    University of Massachusetts Boston
    100 Morrissey Boulevard
    Boston, MA 02125
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
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    To:
    "
    SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU" <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>
    Subject:
    Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     
    Perhaps an article published in a prominent journal or a white paper from a prestigious organization such as the Academy of Management on the pricing power of the major journal publishers might catch the attention of the appropriate antitrust/competition agencies?  
     
    The antitrust community has shown interest in business scholarship. See, e.g., http://antitrustinstitute.org/2014symposium 
     
    Norman Hawker
    Finance and Commercial Law
    Haworth College of Business
    Western Michigan University
     
     


    From: "Alex Stewart" <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
    To:
    SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent:
    Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:54:22 PM
    Subject:
    [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.

    It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:
    https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/
    For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.
    Thoughts?
    Alex
     
    ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well
     
     
    Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
    Marquette University
    Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
    Office: 414 288-7188

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  • 13.  RES: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Posted 02-05-2016 08:32

    I completely agree with this.  Quality research is the scarce resource, the fact that we have to search out journals in which to publish and have them pass judgment is ridiculous. 

     

    I think the peer review system is fine, but as economists say, rents go to the scarce resources, but it doesn't seem to be the case in publishing.

     

    I blame the tenure system that forces us to get "A" and "high B" journals so that they get a monopoly.

     

    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Janaina Macke
    Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 7:24 AM
    To: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [SIM] RES: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     

    Dear colleagues,

     

    We are all hostages of publishing cartels, because the whole academic career system is grounded in scientific production.

    I completely agree that we must do something, after all... the power is only established if one side agrees to be subjugated.

     

    Professor Ray: I'd like to participate on your research in developing countries!

     

    Regards,

     

    Janaina Macke, Dr.

    Professor and Researcher

    Graduate Program in Business Administration

    Faculdade Meridional (IMED)

    Passo Fundo – Brazil

     

    CV: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4763596P0&idiomaExibicao=2

     

     

     

    De: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] Em nome de S Ray
    Enviada em: sexta-feira, 5 de fevereiro de 2016 02:20
    Para: SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Assunto: Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     

    Dear Friends,

    So glad to see this conversation. We are partly responsible for this 'marketization' of research and its consequent vulnerabilities. I can tell you the effect is much worse in developing countries like India having 4000 + business schools.

    I want to write on the effect of publishing cartels on emerging economies- will any of you be interested to join ?

    regards


    Subhasis Ray, PhD

    Professor of Marketing
    Co-ordinator

    Centre for Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Corporate Social Responsibility

    Xavier Institute of Management

    Xavier University

    India

     

     

    On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Ana Maria Peredo <aperedo@uvic.ca> wrote:

    Thank you Alex and Mike, I share some of your feelings about this. We as academics engaged in a gift economy with one and another, while the  large publishing  companies are using our gift exchange to increase their profits and power. They do not even fund our research. Most of our research is funded by  taxpayers, it is only fair that citizens have access to the results of that research. In Canada, there was a proposal a few years  about  making journals and papers accessible after a period of time of being published, I don't know what happened with it. 

     

    This is another instance  of socializing costs and privatizing gains. 

     

    Ana Maria

     

    On 4 Feb 2016, at 6:23 PM, Mike Valente <MValente@SCHULICH.YORKU.CA> wrote:

     

    I just finished writing up a cheeky blog on this very topic

    http://valentemike.blogspot.ca/2016/02/lets-talk-about-academic-publishing.html

    PS:  For those of us in business schools...come on...let's be honest with ourselves.  It's these sorts of value appropriating business models that we applaud in any strategic management course!



    <graycol.gif>
    "Vergne, Jean-Philippe" ---02/04/2016 06:29:25 PM---Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have

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    Date: 02/04/2016 06:29 PM
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    Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have all resigned to protest pricing practices. They plan a new open-access journal. `
     
    https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees
     
    Best,
     
     
    JP.
     
     
    ______
     
    Jean-Philippe VERGNE
    Assistant Professor of Strategy
    F. W. P. Jones Faculty Fellow
    Ivey Business School | Western University
    [ website | www.cryptocapitalism.center ]
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Barnett, Michael L.
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:08 PM
    To:
     SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
     Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     
    No doubt the current system is out of whack. We're not the first to recognize it. There's been considerable movement in some fields and at some universities. There's been a fair bit written about it. And, indeed, there are ways out of this, but they have drawbacks and are difficult to implement, mostly because our recognition and reward systems mitigate against it. My sense is that it would take action from a coalition of major universities such as the Ivy League, Big Ten, etc. to reorient how we approach tenure and promotion in a way that would enable us to climb out of this hole.
     
    Best,
    Mike
     
    *****
    Michael L. Barnett
    Professor, Management & Global Business
    Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/michael-barnett
    View my research papers at: http://ssrn.com/author=414796
    Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=27_fCmIAAAAJ&hl=en
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Calkins
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:00 PM
    To:
     
    SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
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    Concur. The question is why do WE work for them for free?
     
    Most journals don't even provide a subscription to their most faithful and longstanding reviewers. Talk about low cost labor.
     
    Martin Calkins, PhD
    Senior Associate Dean
    College of Management
    University of Massachusetts Boston
    100 Morrissey Boulevard
    Boston, MA 02125
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
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    Norman W Hawker <
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    Date:
    Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 3:50 PM
    To:
    "
    SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU" <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>
    Subject:
    Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

     
    Perhaps an article published in a prominent journal or a white paper from a prestigious organization such as the Academy of Management on the pricing power of the major journal publishers might catch the attention of the appropriate antitrust/competition agencies?  
     
    The antitrust community has shown interest in business scholarship. See, e.g., http://antitrustinstitute.org/2014symposium 
     
    Norman Hawker
    Finance and Commercial Law
    Haworth College of Business
    Western Michigan University
     
     


    From: "Alex Stewart" <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
    To:
    SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent:
    Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:54:22 PM
    Subject:
    [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.

    It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:
    https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/
    For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.
    Thoughts?
    Alex
     
    ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well
     
     
    Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
    Professor of Management
    Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
    Marquette University
    Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
    Office: 414 288-7188

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  • 14.  Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

    Posted 02-05-2016 08:41
    In the Netherlands, and under pressure from the Dutch government, universities have collectively negotiated with the major publishers, leading to some deals. See http://www.vsnu.nl/en_GB/openaccess-eng.html and especially the open access newsletters on the right hand side, where you can follow the negotiations and difficulties in dealing with the respective publishers if you read them consecutively from 1 to, thus far, 14.

    Kind regards,
    Ans Kolk

    On 5-2-2016 3:43, Ana Maria Peredo wrote:
    00D4B1FA-B968-4395-B87D-199B63514B25@uvic.ca" type="cite">
    Thank you Alex and Mike, I share some of your feelings about this. We as academics engaged in a gift economy with one and another, while the  large publishing  companies are using our gift exchange to increase their profits and power. They do not even fund our research. Most of our research is funded by  taxpayers, it is only fair that citizens have access to the results of that research. In Canada, there was a proposal a few years  about  making journals and papers accessible after a period of time of being published, I don't know what happened with it. 

    This is another instance  of socializing costs and privatizing gains. 

    Ana Maria

    On 4 Feb 2016, at 6:23 PM, Mike Valente <MValente@SCHULICH.YORKU.CA> wrote:

    I just finished writing up a cheeky blog on this very topic

    http://valentemike.blogspot.ca/2016/02/lets-talk-about-academic-publishing.html

    PS:  For those of us in business schools...come on...let's be honest with ourselves.  It's these sorts of value appropriating business models that we applaud in any strategic management course!



    <graycol.gif>"Vergne, Jean-Philippe" ---02/04/2016 06:29:25 PM---Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have

    From: "Vergne, Jean-Philippe" <jvergne@IVEY.UWO.CA>
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    Date: 02/04/2016 06:29 PM
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    Recently, the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, have all resigned to protest pricing practices. They plan a new open-access journal. `
     
    https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees
     
    Best,
     
     
    JP.
     
     
    ______
     
    Jean-Philippe VERGNE
    Assistant Professor of Strategy
    F. W. P. Jones Faculty Fellow
    Ivey Business School | Western University
    [ website | www.cryptocapitalism.center ]
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Barnett, Michael L.
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:08 PM
    To:
     SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
     Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     
    No doubt the current system is out of whack. We're not the first to recognize it. There's been considerable movement in some fields and at some universities. There's been a fair bit written about it. And, indeed, there are ways out of this, but they have drawbacks and are difficult to implement, mostly because our recognition and reward systems mitigate against it. My sense is that it would take action from a coalition of major universities such as the Ivy League, Big Ten, etc. to reorient how we approach tenure and promotion in a way that would enable us to climb out of this hole.
     
    Best,
    Mike
     
    *****
    Michael L. Barnett
    Professor, Management & Global Business
    Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/michael-barnett
    View my research papers at: http://ssrn.com/author=414796
    Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=27_fCmIAAAAJ&hl=en
     
     
     
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv [mailto:SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin Calkins
    Sent:
     Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:00 PM
    To:
     SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject:
     Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     
    Concur. The question is why do WE work for them for free?
     
    Most journals don't even provide a subscription to their most faithful and longstanding reviewers. Talk about low cost labor.
     
    Martin Calkins, PhD
    Senior Associate Dean
    College of Management
    University of Massachusetts Boston
    100 Morrissey Boulevard
    Boston, MA 02125
     
    From: Social Issues in Management Listserv <SIM@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on behalf of Norman W Hawker <norman.hawker@WMICH.EDU>
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    Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 3:50 PM
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    Re: [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?
     
    Perhaps an article published in a prominent journal or a white paper from a prestigious organization such as the Academy of Management on the pricing power of the major journal publishers might catch the attention of the appropriate antitrust/competition agencies?  
     
    The antitrust community has shown interest in business scholarship. See, e.g., http://antitrustinstitute.org/2014symposium 
     
    Norman Hawker
    Finance and Commercial Law
    Haworth College of Business
    Western Michigan University
     
     

      From: "Alex Stewart" <alex.stewart@MARQUETTE.EDU>
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      Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:54:22 PM
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      [SIM] Major journal publishers - ambivalence or stronger views?

      I wonder if others are conflicted about what to do about the pricing power of the major journal publishers. For years university libraries have been pinched, and pinched and pinched to the point of cancelling important titles. In some countries, like Canada, the problem is especially acute.

      It seems to me that the publishers get free content and a lot of free editorial work from professors, and then charge their universities exorbitant subscription fees. See, for example, this note from MIT:
      https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/publishers-and-the-mit-faculty-open-access-policy/elsevier-fact-sheet/
      For my part, I am wondering if I should give up editorial board work for some publishers, and no longer send manuscripts to their journals. Obviously my own actions would be minor but they could be part of a larger trend. I worry that doing this just hurts my friends with these journals. But I feel guilty not doing it.
      Thoughts?
      Alex
       
      ps I sent this to the RMSP list as well
       
       
      Alex Stewart, Ph.D.
      Professor of Management
      Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
      Marquette University
      Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
      Office: 414 288-7188

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