学者们之间形成一定共识是一个学科得以发展的必要备件和前提,也是评判学科科学性的一个标准。本文以1989~2010年间家族企业研究中的832篇学术论文为样本,采用社会网络分析方法(SNA),探讨了西方家族企业研究中学者间的社会网络关系。本文识别出两个引证关系密集的学者群,但两子网之间只存在单向联动关系。此外,本文还对两子网的网络中心、重要结点文献及其在知识上的贡献,以及两子网内学者们研究的理论基础、课题选择、学科类别和研究方法等方面进行了分析。
The consensus between scholars is an essential part and prerequisite for the advance of a discipline. From a bibliometrics perspective and on a large sample basis (1486 Literature from ISI database and 832 academic articles from our self-built database from 1989 to 2010), this paper examines the social network of western scholars in the field of family business research based on Social Network Analysis (SNA). We identify two dense sub network of scholars' co-citation, but there exist only one-way linkage between the two subnets, then we compare and analyze the theory basis, subject selection, disciplines and research methods in the two subnets.