Deriving disciplinary structures: Some new methods, models, and an illustration with accounting

✍ Scribed by Bricker, Robert

• Book ID: 102653721
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 978 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199101)42:1<27::aid-asi4>3.0.co;2-b

✦ Synopsis

This study demonstrates the use of two microcomputer based extensions of cocitation clustering, and content analysis to derive a disciplinary structure. The use of an independent data source and multiple discriminant analysis as a validation tool is also demonstrated. One extension of cocitation clustering is a form of nonhierarchical single-link clustering, and the second is sequential cocitation threshold stepping. These extensions can be used to cluster cocitations and syntactically represent cluster structure in the form of a dendogram. This structure can be given semantic content through the use of content analysis. The Research Markets Model of the behavior of research scholars provides a framework within which the heterogeneity and homogeneity apparent in the structure of scholarly disciplines is interpreted.