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Accessing academic papers on balanced scoreacrd research - advice please
I wanted to look in detail at various academic articles that are flying around on the balanced scorecard. So I choose 10 that looked potentially interested and started searching for them.
Here is the problem, I can only get access to two and the rest require some sort of payment or academic access. In otherwords if I am in a university I can access them otherwise I can't.
I tried google scholor and just hit sites that wanted payment for these papers. I tried the IoD research service and , through EBSCO I managed two of the 10.
So here is the question all you academics out there. If you want to connect with is practitioners what are you going to do about this, (Here is the curious part: We are paying for your research with our taxes, so why can't we get access to your papers?). is anyone else there frustrated by this?
Here are two papers i am trying to get hold of. If you wish credibility please explain how I can read them. The two in bold are the ones I have actually found).
Phil (off line replies to info@excitant.co.uk please)
1) De Geuser F., Mooraj S., Oyon D. (2009) “Does the Balanced Scorecad add value? Empirical evidence on its effect on performance”, European Accounting Review, vol 18(1), pp. 93-122.
2) An investigation of the effect of Balanced Scorecard implementation on financial performance, Davis & albright (2004), Management Accounting Research Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2004, Pages 135-153
3) Bourne, M. C. S., Kennerley, M. & Franco-Santos, M., (2005), “Managing through measures, a study of impact on performance”, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 16, No. 4, 373 – 395.
4) Fink, A.; Marr, B.; Siebe, A.; Kuhle, J. (2005) The future scorecard: combining external and internal scenarios to create strategic foresight. Management Decision, volume 43 issue 2, p-
5) Franco, M.; Bourne, M. (2005) An examination of the literature relating to issues affecting how companies manage through measures. Production, Planning & Control, volume 16 issue 2, p114-124
6) A descriptive analysis on the implementation of Balanced Scorecards in German speaking countries Gerhard Speckbacher, Juergen Bischof and Thomas Pfeiffer Management Accounting Research Volume 14, Issue 4, December 2003, Pages 361-388
7) Sven C. Voelpel, Marius Leibold, Robert A. Eckhoff, (2006) "The tyranny of the Balanced Scorecard in the innovation economy", Journal of Intellectual Capital, Vol. 7 Iss: 1, pp.43 - 60
8) Crabtree, A.D. and DeBusk, G.K., (2008) “The Effects of Adopting the Balanced Scorecard on Shareholder Returns” Advances in Accounting, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 8-15.
9) Hyvonen, J. (2007), “Strategy, Performance Measurement Techniques and Information Technology of the Firm and Their Links to Organizational Performance”, Management Accounting Research, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 343-366.
10) Johnston, R. and Pongatichat, P. (2008), “Managing the Tension between Performance Measurement and Strategy: Coping Strategies”', International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 28, No. 10, pp. 941-967.
The journals that publish these articles are keen to recover the cost of their editing and publishing activities. They do this by charging for access to the articles. This is not unreasonable, but can be (as you have encountered) quite obstructive for non university types.
Universities pay - but they simply buy in bulk and then make their purchases available to their students and faculty "for free".
For non-university bods looking to read the articles, either they or someone else needs to pay for access to such of the articles.
The alternative perhaps is going to use an academic Library. Access rules vary between them I know, but the LBS Library (for example) has pretty good access privileges for Alumni, and a fairly comprehensive catalogue of journals to access. Or you could try going through the library of professional bodies that have some interest in general management theory - for example the Chartered Institute of Marketing has a pretty good library in Cookham, UK, and various Engineering institutes also have pretty good libraries.
I would caution about being too tough on the academics who publish through these journals - in the most part they are simply filling quotas within their own universe: it doesn't really matter whether non-academics can see their articles or not when it comes to career status / advancement issues...
2GC has published a range of papers in journals, but partly because of these access issues, we've more recently been making our material available via non-constrained channels under the Creative Commons license.
Finally - if you want to really see expensive articles in the flesh, there is always the Harvard Business Review: flaky flavour of the month articles for only £8.25 a month... ;)
HTH