There has been debate amongst researchers and policy makers regarding how strong the correlation between population growth and economic growth is. At a time when several countries are encouraging policies to promote population growth, other countries are pursuing population stabilisation. For...

Academic journals disseminate new knowledge, and editors of prominent journals are in a position to affect the direction and composition of research. Using machine learning procedures, we measure the influence of editors of the American Economic Review (AER) on the relative topic structure of...

"Investigating the wave of unionization that has seen over 60 digital and legacy media outlets unionize since 2015, this book explores how a flash of organizing by digital-first journalists has become a full-blown movement to unionize journalism, particularly in the United States. Through...

The American copyright act from 1976 allows authors to terminate their copyright grants after a certain vesting period if these are not categorized as work made for hire. The literature suggests substantial effects on the author-publisher relationship because in negotiations publishers may...

This paper incorporates publication uncertainty in a game between researchers and journal editors and examines its effects on quantity and quality of published research. A stylized differential Stackelberg game between journal editors and academic authors is considered, where authors seek to...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Institutional Routines and the Victorian Publishing Industry -- Chapter 3: Authorship: Legitimation of a Literary Profession -- Chapter 4: Literary Agents: Middlemen of the Industry -- Chapter 5: Publishing Power Houses -- Chapter 6: The Macmillans: A...

This book explores the business practices of the British publishing industry from 1843-1900, discussing the role of creative businesses in society and the close relationship between culture and business in a historical context. Marrisa Joseph develops a strong cultural, social and historical...

Prologue: "With devouring fury" -- "Large, wild, fiery, black" -- "In mirth and refutation; in ridicule and laughter" -- "Vive la guillotine" -- The literary banker -- "The ruin inflicted on innocent creditors" -- "The young gentleman out of Miss Austen's novels" -- A death in India -- The...

Es ist ein bekanntes Phänomen, dass die Anzahl der Koautoren in der Volkswirtschaftslehre in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten zugenommen hat. Der Artikel zeigt auf der Basis des bisher größten Datensatzes, dass es einen fortbleibenden Trend zu mehr Koautoren pro Artikel gibt, der wahrscheinlich...

Die Auswertung von Fachbeiträgen zu bedeutenden internationalen Zeitschriften und Konferenzen aus Wirtschaftsinformatik und Information Systems zeigt, dass im Zeitraum der Jahre von 2000 bis 2012 die durchschnittliche Anzahl der Autoren pro Beitrag in Zeitschriften von etwa 2,2 auf etwa 2,8 und...

Zu Ehren von Volker Wolff vereinigt der Band Beiträge zum Spannungsfeld des Journalismus zwischen professioneller Autonomie und der Erfüllung von Nutzwert-Funktionen. Wolff war von 1995 bis 2014 Inhaber der Professur für Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenjournalismus am Journalistischen Seminar der...