ABSTRACT
During the interwar period, the emerging field for business and management books continued to grow within the broader field of book publishing with established publishers. The four publishers founded in the previous period, Wiley, Harper, Macmillan, and McGraw-Hill, kept adding new titles to their management portfolios. Among the university presses founded earlier, the University of Chicago Press was particularly open for business books. In 1921 it published Leon C. Marshall's Business Administration, a textbook of more than 900 pages. Another significant event in the interwar period for the later development was the move in 1921 by Pearson originally founded in 1844 as a construction company into media by purchasing and combining a number of local UK newspapers into the Westminster Press. At the end of the interwar period, in total, nine of the FT45 journals thus had been founded. An analysis of the impact of papers published in these nine journals reveals both differences in terms of citations.
