A simple trawl through this forum will present you with the answers to all of your questions. They have been asked...and answered... over and over and over and over.
I agree.
yeahbutnobutyeah. You're both right that a lot of this has been done to death before. But B-School specific stuff on the RAE, for example? Here, the OP might want to check out, for example
Journal Rankings in Business and Management and the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise in the UK,
J Geary, L Marriott, M Rowlinson in
British Journal of Management, 2004.
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