Centres and Peripheries: Research Styles and Publication Patterns in ‘Top’ US Journals and their E uropean Alternatives, 1960–2010

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Abstract In view of recent literature, suggesting a growing international ascendancy ofUS‐style scholarship but also a decreasingUSdominance in journal publications,Iask two questions with regard to management and organization studies: (1) whether there has been an increasing convergence towardsUS‐style research; and (2) whether the purported decline in the relative amount ofUSpublications has been uniform across leading journals based in theUSAandEurope. In addressing these questions,Itake a historical perspective and draw upon the centre–periphery model of international scholarship, arguing that convergence or fragmentation in styles of research and variations in publication patterns have evolved through the interplay between processes of influence by the centre (i.e., theUSA) and imitative or competitive responses by the periphery. Empirically, the study spans the period 1960–2010 and is confined to ‘top’US‐based journals and their mainEuropean alternatives. The findings answer the first question with a ‘no, other than a greater tendency towards theUS‐style when educational or collaborative ties to theUSAare involved and by the recently emerging parts of the periphery’. The second question again is answered with a ‘no, the decline has been much less in “top”USjournals relative to the ones based inEurope’.