How Emerald manages the flow of knowledge: Growing portfolio

After the tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia in 1968, academics and writers considered by the regime to be anti‐Soviet were forced to seek manual jobs. When many opted for window cleaning, a joke had it that some academics could not find work because they had not published enough papers. It is a telling comment on the importance of research. Scholarly publishing of management research influences individual academic and institutional research funding as well as business practice.