However flawed and rigid might be the perspective down from the ivory tower, academic research composes an intergral part of any serious discussion on what is eventually considered as the best practice. This list was built to represent the most relevant and useful academic journals in the fiels of management, organisation science, media and communication and information systems.
Right now, these journals hold about 736 articles on “open innovation”.
Management and Organisation Science
Administrative Science Quarterly regularly publishes the best theoretical and empirical papers based on dissertations and on the evolving and new work of more established scholars; publishes organizational theory papers from a number of disciplines, including organizational behavior and theory, sociology, psychology and social psychology, strategic management, economics, public administration, and industrial relations.
Harvard Business Review Posh version of McKinsey Quarterly.
Management Science includes articles that address management issues with tools from foundational fields such as computer science, economics, mathematics, operations research, political science, psychology, sociology, and statistics, as well as cross-functional, multidisciplinary research that reflects the diversity of the management science professions.
McKinsey Quarterly serious version of Harvard Business Review.
Organisation Science provides one umbrella for the publication of research from all over the world in fields such as organization theory, strategic management, sociology, economics, political science, history, information science, communication theory, and psychology.
Organisation Studies published in collaboration with the European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS), aims to promote the understanding of organizations, organizing, and the organized in and between societies, through the publication of double-blind peer-reviewed, top quality theoretical and empirical research. OS is a multidisciplinary journal, rooted in the social sciences, inspired by diversity, comparative in its outlook, and open to paradigmatic plurality.
Sloan Management Review geeky version of Harvard Business Review.
Media and Communications
New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research.
Information Science
Communications of the ACM (wow, relaunched in Feb 2009) a platform to present and debate various technology implications, public policies, engineering challenges, and market trends; in-depth coverage of emerging areas of computer science, new trends in information technology, and practical applications, the Communications Web site brings topical and informative news and material to computing professionals each business day.
European Journal of IS Information systems professionals in industry, commerce, government and academic departments of management, business and computing. Loads of methodological discussions and research studies.
Information and Management serves managers, professionals, database administrators and senior executives of organizations which design, implement and manage Information Systems Applications; to collect and disseminate information on new and advanced developments in the field of applied information systems.
Information Systems Research is a leading international journal of theory, research, and intellectual development, focused on information systems in organizations, institutions, the economy, and society.
Information, communication and society Drawing together the most current work upon the social, economic and cultural impact of the emerging properties of the new information and communications technologies, this journal positions itself at the centre of contemporary debates about the information age. Information, Communication & Society (iCS) transcends cultural and geographical boundaries as it explores a diverse range of issues relating to the development and application of information and communications technologies (ICTs).
MIS Quarterly the enhancement and communication of knowledge concerning the development of IT-based services, the management of IT resources, and the use, impact, and economics of IT with managerial, organizational, and societal implications.
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