Open AccessUnderstanding And Quantifying The Impact Of Freeman And Medoffs What Do Unions Do? A Quarter Of A Century Later
Author(s) -
Feruzan Irani Williams,
Robert C. Hoell
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of business and economics research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2157-8893
pISSN - 1542-4448
DOI - 10.19030/jber.v9i9.5632
Subject(s) - field (mathematics) , quarter (canadian coin) , citation , index (typography) , bibliometrics , citation analysis , computer science , library science , history , mathematics , world wide web , archaeology , pure mathematics
We examine the impact of Freeman and Medoffs seminal book What Do Unions Do? on the field of Industrial and Labor Relations, in the 25 years since its publication. While it is widely accepted that this book has had a major impact on its field, we attempt to quantify this by using various bibliometric indicators (e.g., h-index) and descriptive statistics; via a combination of manual literature review and specialized citation software using multiple databases. As expected, our findings quantifiably indicate that What Do Unions Do? has had and continues to have an above average impact on in its field.