About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

7 J. Legal Stud. Educ. 1 (1988)

handle is hein.journals/jlse7 and id is 1 raw text is: RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ACTIVITY OF BUSINESS LAW PROFESSORS *MARCIA J. STAFF **P.R. CHANDRASEKARAN Successful faculty careers in academic institutions have long been based upon the three basic areas of performance: (1) teaching; (2) scholarly and professional activities; and (3) service. Excellence, or at least demonstrated competence, in each of the areas is generally required for college and university professors regardless of discipline. However, there are typically great variations between disciplines regarding the types of activities that are properly considered in each category of performance and the means by which the performance is evaluated. These variations have made it difficult to evaluate the scholarly and professional ac- tivities of business professors generally and business law professors in particular. The scholarly and professional activities required of business law professors are increasingly being interpreted as including some type of publications. The increasing pressure to publish has been made even more stressful by the lack of established criteria for (1) what constitutes research for a business law professor and (2) where the research must be published in order to satisfy the research requirements of an academic institution. Since business law professors have been and will continue to be evaluated by their peers both within and outside colleges of business on the basis of their scholarly and professional activities, the authors undertook an examination of the research production of and expectations for business law professors. It should be noted initially that some disciplines within colleges of business have attempted to generate rankings of journals and profes- sional meetings in an attempt to evaluate the scholarly production of * Associate Professor, Business Law, University of North Texas. ** Associate Professor, Finance, University of North Texas.

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most