The paper Replication studies in top management journals: An empirical investigation of prevalence, types, outcomes, and impact (Christian Fisch together with Jörn Block, Narmeen Kanwal, Solvej Lorenzen, and Anna Schulze) was published in Management Review Quarterly.
Abstract: Replication studies are important for the empirical research process. Yet, while there is an increased awareness of the need for replication in management research, it appears that such studies are rarely published in leading management journals. Importantly, we lack a comprehensive overview of replication studies in the top management journals that spans all sub-disciplines. Our systematic review closes this gap and provides an overview of the prevalence, types, outcomes, and impact of replication studies in management journals. We fnd that diferences in the prevalence of replications between sub-disciplines exist and that most replications are wide replications. With regard to the replication outcome, our review shows that the share of non-confrming replications is low. Moreover, such replications are cited less often than confrming replications pointing towards a confrmation bias in management research. We discuss the implications of our results for authors, reviewers, and editors of management journals.