Comparison of Research Output and Fee Charging Strategies of Some Top Global and Indian Business Schools

Abstract

The progress in information communication technology (ITC) in 21st century created an opportunity to network the researchers working in same area/subjects and refer their research publications at free of cost by means of open access research repositories. SSRN, Researchgate, Selected works, Munich Personal RePEc Archive, Zenodo are some of the well known research networks and scholarly published papers repositories. In this paper we have studied the strategy of Social Science Research Network (SSRN) which has been named the Number 1 Open Access Repository in the World. We have studied the ranking strategy of this network based on number of papers published/ uploaded by different research organizations all over the world. This study discuss on the criteria of SSRN ranking, recent US Business schools ranking based on number of papers submitted for a given year, recent International Business schools ranking based on number of papers submitted for a given year, recent Top researchers ranking based on number of papers for a given year, and top Indian business schools based on such ranking. We have made a comparative study and analysis on research productivity of 30 Top research institutions in US business school ranking list, international business school ranking list, and Indian Business School ranking list and studied its effect on performance and ranking on the organizations as well as strategies on their MBA course fee.