Study of Research Productivity in World Top Business Schools

Institutional Ranking in higher educational institutions became common practice
and business schools are highly benefitted by the announced worldwide ranks based on
various ranking criterions. The ranking is usually announced based on pedagogy,
placement, research output, faculty-student ratio, international linkage, management of
technology etc. We have developed a model of calculating research productivity of higher
educational institution based on calculating institutional research index and weighted
research index. The institutional research productivity is calculated using a metric which
consists of three institutional variables and one parameter. The three variables identified
as the number of Articles published in peer reviewed journals (A), the number of Books
published (B), and number of Case studies and/or Book Chapters (C) published during a
given time of observation. The parameter used is the number of full-time Faculty members
(F) in that higher education institution which remains constant during a given period of
observation. In this paper, we have used ABC model of institutional research productivity
to calculate annual research productivity of some of the world top business schools. The
annual publication data for the year 2015 is collected from the respective institutional
websites. The research productivity of these institutions are determined and compared.
Based on research productivity index, and corrected research productivity index, the
Business Schools are re-ranked. The parameters used in Financial Times (FT) Ranking
system is compared with the features of ABC research productivity ranking model.