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Effect of Discipline

Similarly, the discipline in which the journal is based can affect the

number of editors and the organizational model of the editorial board.

e discipline provides a number of related journals that can be used

to provide reference models of both the number of editors and the

editorial model.

Further, a discipline’s homogeneity or heterogeneity can influence

the nature of an editorial board. For example, a highly heterogeneous

discipline effectively might require editors from the particular sub-

disciplines to be characterized as such in the editorial board. Hence,

Management Science might denote a number of editors based on

sub-disciplines.

Power and Editorial Board Size and Structure

“Power” may be a critica ...