Mining full‐text journal articles to assess obliteration by incorporation: Herbert A. Simon's concepts of bounded rationality and satisficing in economics, management, and psychology

This study explores the usefulness of full‐text retrieval in assessing obliteration by incorporation ( OBI ) by comparing patterns of OBI and citation substitution across economics, management, and psychology for two concept catch phrases—bounded rationality and satisficing. Searches using each term are conducted in JSTOR and in selected additional full‐text journal sources from over the years 1987–2011. Two measures of OBI are used, one simply...