Emerald Group Publishing
Encyclopedia
Emerald Group Publishing Limited is a primary publisher of management
and business
journals
. Founded in the UK in 1967, it operates worldwide with offices in Malaysia, Japan
, China
, India
and the United States
.
, Management Decision (originally the British Journal of Management), the following year for £1. Fifty academics from the University of Bradford
Management Centre each paid £100 for a share in the company in 1969 to allow the company to buy a building on Keighley Road, Bradford
, West Yorkshire. The first employee was hired in 1970. Individual journals were managed as separate companies and MCB became a "service company" for the journal companies. In 1977 it was decided that the individual journal companies would be merged into one company, MCB Publications Ltd.
By 1981 the company had grown to 20 employees and was publishing 15 journals. From 1982 through 1997 the company was the official publisher for an independent action learning business school (International Management Centres). The year also saw the acquisition of Anbar which later became Emerald Reviews. By 1990 it was publishing 65 journals. MCB was renamed Emerald in 2001.
In 1992 Floppy Anbar (CD-ROM) was launched becoming the first product to be offered in an electronic format. This was accompanied by Literati, a database and network of authors and editors which was the first of its kind in terms of building and nurturing relationships. In 1994, the company began publishing some of its journals as the Electronic Management Research Library Database (EMERALD) on CD-ROM. Emerald Fulltext journals become available in 1995, rebranded as Emerald Management Xtra in 2004. Emerald launched the ManagementFirst website in 2000 (it later became Emerald ManagementFirst in 2007), aimed at corporate customers. In 2006 Emerald announced a partnership with iParadigms, the developers of the Turnitin
anti-plagiarism detection product.
In 2007 Emerald acquired a programme of Management and Social Science book serials, series and monographs from Elsevier
. The acquisition of almost 2,000 book titles was a significant move for a publishing company that previously focused on journals.
In 2007 Emerald signed an agreement with the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), which covered 339 universities throughout Germany. Emerald works with over 60 consortia; an estimated 6,000 institutions worldwide now subscribe to their publications.
Thirty-six of their journals are currently included in Journal Citation Reports
. The company continues to grow through the acquisition of new journals and the development of new products. In 2008 it is hoped that a digital archive will be released featuring the full Emerald collection dating back to 1899. The earliest recorded article comes from the British Food Journal, and the collection is expected to feature some interesting content such as articles from Internet Research (1991), the first journal on record of the internet age, and believed to contain the first reference to the term ‘world wide web’ in a landmark exploratory paper by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
The company is based in Howard House on the outskirts of Bingley, West Yorkshire.
He published a follow-up article reporting that the owners of Emerald were simultaneously acting as authors, editors, and managers of these journals, duplicating not only the work of others but their own as well.
Emerald undertook its own study and identified 560 republished papers from 1989 to 2004, 1.1 percent of its total database. Davis argued that "whatever the number, no amount of premeditated covert article duplication is acceptable".
who in 2006 won Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006 ‘For his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy’. Phelps wrote "A Review of Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market" in the Journal of Economic Studies in 1993.
Universiti Teknologi MARA
(UiTM) has received an award winning from Emerald Group Publishing Limited for using more Emerald articles other than 300 customers of registered universities worldwide. The university holds a top downloader of articles for two consecutive years. Students and staffs, mostly are lecturers, from UiTM have downloaded over 870,000 articles from the Emerald research articles collection in business management and social sciences, securing as the highest user until 2010.
Second top user is Universiti Utara Malaysia
(UUM) and the third is Monash University
.
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
and business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
journals
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
. Founded in the UK in 1967, it operates worldwide with offices in Malaysia, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
History
Emerald was formed in 1967 as Management Consultants Bradford (MCB) by a group of academics dissatisfied by the publishing outlets of the time. It acquired its first journalAcademic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
, Management Decision (originally the British Journal of Management), the following year for £1. Fifty academics from the University of Bradford
University of Bradford
The University of Bradford is a British university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The University received its Royal Charter in 1966, making it the 40th University to be created in Britain, but its origins date back to the early 1800s...
Management Centre each paid £100 for a share in the company in 1969 to allow the company to buy a building on Keighley Road, Bradford
Bradford
Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...
, West Yorkshire. The first employee was hired in 1970. Individual journals were managed as separate companies and MCB became a "service company" for the journal companies. In 1977 it was decided that the individual journal companies would be merged into one company, MCB Publications Ltd.
By 1981 the company had grown to 20 employees and was publishing 15 journals. From 1982 through 1997 the company was the official publisher for an independent action learning business school (International Management Centres). The year also saw the acquisition of Anbar which later became Emerald Reviews. By 1990 it was publishing 65 journals. MCB was renamed Emerald in 2001.
In 1992 Floppy Anbar (CD-ROM) was launched becoming the first product to be offered in an electronic format. This was accompanied by Literati, a database and network of authors and editors which was the first of its kind in terms of building and nurturing relationships. In 1994, the company began publishing some of its journals as the Electronic Management Research Library Database (EMERALD) on CD-ROM. Emerald Fulltext journals become available in 1995, rebranded as Emerald Management Xtra in 2004. Emerald launched the ManagementFirst website in 2000 (it later became Emerald ManagementFirst in 2007), aimed at corporate customers. In 2006 Emerald announced a partnership with iParadigms, the developers of the Turnitin
Turnitin
Turnitin is an Internet-based plagiarism-detection service created by iParadigms, LLC. Typically, universities and high schools buy licenses to submit essays to the Turnitin website, which checks the documents for originality...
anti-plagiarism detection product.
In 2007 Emerald acquired a programme of Management and Social Science book serials, series and monographs from Elsevier
Elsevier
Elsevier is a publishing company which publishes medical and scientific literature. It is a part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere....
. The acquisition of almost 2,000 book titles was a significant move for a publishing company that previously focused on journals.
In 2007 Emerald signed an agreement with the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), which covered 339 universities throughout Germany. Emerald works with over 60 consortia; an estimated 6,000 institutions worldwide now subscribe to their publications.
Thirty-six of their journals are currently included in Journal Citation Reports
Journal Citation Reports
Journal Citation Reports is an annual publication by the Healthcare & Science division of Thomson Reuters. It has been integrated with the Web of Knowledge, by Thomson Reuters, and is accessed from the Web of Science to JCR Web. It provides information about academic journals in the sciences and...
. The company continues to grow through the acquisition of new journals and the development of new products. In 2008 it is hoped that a digital archive will be released featuring the full Emerald collection dating back to 1899. The earliest recorded article comes from the British Food Journal, and the collection is expected to feature some interesting content such as articles from Internet Research (1991), the first journal on record of the internet age, and believed to contain the first reference to the term ‘world wide web’ in a landmark exploratory paper by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
The company is based in Howard House on the outskirts of Bingley, West Yorkshire.
Republication controversy
In 2004, Philip Davis of Cornell University found extensive covert duplication of articles in Emerald/MCB University Press journals, including at least 409 examples of articles from sixty-seven journals that were republished without notification that they were previously published. He found examples of triplicate publishing, as well as journals that contained no original content, but were filled with articles submitted to other journals.He published a follow-up article reporting that the owners of Emerald were simultaneously acting as authors, editors, and managers of these journals, duplicating not only the work of others but their own as well.
Emerald undertook its own study and identified 560 republished papers from 1989 to 2004, 1.1 percent of its total database. Davis argued that "whatever the number, no amount of premeditated covert article duplication is acceptable".
Award winning author
Notable writers for Emerald publications include Edmund PhelpsEdmund Phelps
Edmund Strother Phelps, Jr. is an American economist and the winner of the 2006 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Early in his career he became renowned for his research at Yale's Cowles Foundation in the first half of the 1960s on the sources of economic growth...
who in 2006 won Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006 ‘For his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy’. Phelps wrote "A Review of Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market" in the Journal of Economic Studies in 1993.
Award winning for top user
Malaysian universities are mostly notable for top user of Emerald database.Universiti Teknologi MARA
Universiti Teknologi MARA
Universiti Teknologi MARA is a coeducational public university with its main campus located in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.It is the flagship institution of the Universiti Teknologi MARA...
(UiTM) has received an award winning from Emerald Group Publishing Limited for using more Emerald articles other than 300 customers of registered universities worldwide. The university holds a top downloader of articles for two consecutive years. Students and staffs, mostly are lecturers, from UiTM have downloaded over 870,000 articles from the Emerald research articles collection in business management and social sciences, securing as the highest user until 2010.
Second top user is Universiti Utara Malaysia
Universiti Utara Malaysia
Universiti Utara Malaysia is a public university in the town of Sintok, Kedah. Utara means 'northern' in the Malay language. It was formally incorporated on 16 February 1984. The university was established with the specific mission of providing a leadership role for management education in the...
(UUM) and the third is Monash University
Monash University
Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
.