“Only if I'm First Author”: Conflict over Credit in Management Scholarship

From authors' responses to open-ended questions, this theory-building study developed a framework to explain conflict over credit for joint research. Regression analysis of quantitative items provided evidence for the influence of motives and power on attitudes toward the value of author tasks and the criteria for ordering names in publications. The resulting model identifies four collaborative approaches and the sources of conflict appearing in each.

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