Legitimizing Sharia Economics through

Publications

Badri Munir Sukoco Department of Management, Airlangga University

Outline

Why do we need to publish our research?

How do we publish our research?

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Reasons for Publishing Your Work

Personal motives

Institutional motives

A field motives

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The Needs of Sharia Economics for being an Academic Field

Without recognition from others, members:

1. Unable to get faculty positions;

2. Unable to get the funding;

3. Unable to get journal space or conference presence;

4. Gradually reduce their efforts to develop and enrich the field.

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Is Sharia Economics An Academic Field?

A field exists when a substantial number of major universities designate positions for its members, grant tenure to its members, and allow its members to supervise graduate students (Hagstrom, 1965; Kuhn, 1970; Stinchcombe, 1994).

A field is developed by an informal community that form around a theory, a phenomenon, a class of problems, an ideology, a methodology, or a technology.

Members of an informal community distribute manuscripts and preprints to each other, cite each other, and strive to meet and engage in discourse at conferences (Kuhn, 1970).

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Factors that Contribute to the Rise of an Academic Field

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Source: Donald C. Hambrick and Myng-Jer Chen (2008). New Academic Fields as Admittance-Seeking Social Movements: The Case of Strategic Management. Academy of Management Review. 33(1): 32-54.

Admittance-Seeking Social Movement Model

Three components of Admittance-Seeking Social Movement Model:

1. Differentiation: emerging field should differentiate from the existing field (economics, finance, etc);

2. Mobilization: members should mobilize their resources and element of collective action – political opportunity structure, shared interests, and social infrastructure;

3. Legitimacy building: develop legitimacy internally and externally by following the norms, styles, and standards of the existing fields.

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Examples of Visions of Existing Field

Molecular biology; holding the key to the mysteries of life (Yoxen, 1982);

Industrial psychology: science of mental life that combined the appeal of psychology’s “human engineering” and scientific management’s ideal of a “mental revolution” (Van de Water, 1997).

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Admittance-Seeking Social Movement Model - Mobilization

Mobilization is “the process by which a group secures collective control over the resources needed for collective action” (Jenkins, 1983: 532);

Factors that support the effectiveness of mobilization: 1. Political opportunity structure;2. Shared interests;3. Social infrastructure.

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Admittance-Seeking Social Movement Model – Legitimacy Building

A becoming field needs recognition from internal and external players;

Two ways of legitimacy building: 1. Persuasion: a field gains status by showing, through sound arguments and

evidence, unique contributions to knowledge or to society (Merton, 1973);

2. Emulation: conforming to the methodological or paradigmatic conventions of more well-established fields (Cole, 1983).

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Legitimacy Building – Emulation

A new field (Sharia Economics) often being questioned by established fields (Economics, Marketing, etc.);

Scholars of more established fields use their general standards to assess the scientific level of the becoming field;

The best way is benchmarking: adopt their standards and at the same time differentiate themselves to the existing fields;

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How Do We Publish Our Research

Understand the process of publication

Understand the criteria of publication

Develop personal competences on publishing your work

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Reviewing Process

Publication Criteria 1/3

The criteria of paper publication are standard across journals;

The higher reputation of particular journal, the requirements become more demanding;

Having a look on journal’s scopes and objectives is the primary gate to know their publication standards

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Publication Criteria 2/3

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Publication Criteria 3/3

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Dichotomy Evaluations

Method Decision

TheoryGood Bad Rejected?

Bad Good Accepted?

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Complex Evaluations - 1

Method Decisions

Good Bad

TheoryGood √ Accepted

Bad

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Complex Evaluations - 2

Method Decisions

Good Bad

TheoryGood √ Accepted

OrRejected?

Bad

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Complex Evaluations - 3

Method Decisions

Good Bad

TheoryGood Accepted

or Rejected?

Bad √

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Complex Evaluations - 4

Method Decisions

Good Bad

TheoryGood

Rejected Bad √

Ranking Considered as … Name of Journal

1 A+ Quarterly Journal of Economics

2 A+ Journal of Economic Literature

3 A+ Journal of Economic Perspectives

4 A+ Econometrica

5 A+ Journal of Political Economy

6 A+ Journal of Financial Economics

7 A Review of Economic Studies

8 A Journal of Economic Growth

9 A American Economic Review

10 A Economic Policy

Top Journals in Economics

Ranking Considered as … Name of Journal

1 A+ Journal of Finance

2 A+ Journal of Financial Economics

3 A+ Journal of Accounting and Economics

4 A+ Review of Financial Studies

5 A+ Journal of Accounting Research

6 A Accounting Review

7 A World Bank Economic Review

8 A Accounting Organizations and Society

9 A Journal of Corporate Finance

10 A Review of Accounting Studies

Top Journals in Finance

Ranking Considered as … Name of Journal

1 A+ Journal of Marketing

2 A+ Journal of Consumer Research

3 A+ Journal of Marketing Research

4 A+ Marketing Science

5 A+ Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

6 A Journal of Retailing

7 A International Journal of Research in Marketing

8 A Journal of Advertising

9 A Psychology and Marketing

10 A Journal of Consumer Psychology

Top Journals in Marketing

Ranking Considered as … Name of Journal

1 A+ Academy of Management Review

2 A+ Administrative Science Quarterly

3 A+ Academy of Management Journal

4 A+ Strategic Management Journal

5 A+ Journal of Applied Psychology

6 A Organization Science

7 A Journal of International Business Studies

8 A Journal of Organizational Behavior

9 A Industrial and Labor Relations Review

10 A Journal of Management

Top Journals in Management

Developing Competences on Publishing Your Research 1/3

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1. Get used to scientific journals Read and understand the contents of top journals (at least 1 journal) of

your research interests; Regularly discuss with students and colleagues; Know the trend of your interested field; Be a member of associated community;• Economics: American Economic Association, National Association for Business Economics• Finance: Financial Management Association, American Finance Association, American

Accounting Association• Marketing: American Marketing Association, Advances in Consumer Research, Society for

Marketing Advances• Management: Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, Academy of

International Business

a. Submit your draft to their conference and voluntarily serves as reviewers;b. Find mentors or potential partners in the conference;

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2. Find good research questions

“Articles that address good questions and have something new to contribute to your friend is very important.”

“Good papers result from good research, and good research starts with asking right questions.”

“Your work is 50% done if you find good research questions.”

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3. Practice, practice, and practice Replicate some related papers in Indonesian context; Know the styles of your targeted journal (mission, editors, reviewer board); Get feedbacks from your colleagues before submitting to the conference or the

journal; Proofread your paper or you will get ‘desk rejection;” After received comments from reviewers, do not touch your paper for 2 – 3

weeks; Fully commit to revise and resubmit your paper; Be productive, and realize that your colleagues around the world have similar

constraints like yours.

Closing Notes

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Publishing your research is the only way to support Sharia Economics as a field;

Understand the publication process is the gate to further proceed your research;

Get along with others through conferences and correspondences enhance your writing capabilities and competences;