Using Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) to Categorize Business and Management Education (BME) Research

We seek to extend Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) from its present primary use as a tool for classifying academic fields of study that help instructors to convey course content and shape program curricula, to being a framework for assessing the development of research streams in educational research. We executed this extension by developing a listing of 250 highly-cited articles from business and management education (BME) research using...