The Internet has enabled efficient electronic publishing of scholarly journals and Open Access business models. Recent studies have shown that adoption of Open Access journals has been uneven across scholarly disciplines, where the business and economics disciplines in particular seem to lag behind all other fields of research. Through bibliometric analysis of journals indexed in Scopus, we find the share of articles in Open Access journals in business, management, and accounting to be only 6%. We further studied the Open Access availability of articles published during 2014–2019 in journals included in the Financial Times 50 journal list (19,969 articles in total). None of the journals are full Open Access, but 8% of the articles are individually open and for a further 35% earlier manuscript versions are available openly on the web. The results suggest that the low adoption rate of Open Access journals in the business fields is a side-effect of evaluation practices emphasizing publishing in journals included, in particular, ranking lists, creating disincentives for business model innovation, and barriers for new entrants among journals. Currently, most business school research has to be made Open Access through other ways than through full Open Access journals, and libraries play an important role in facilitating this in a sustainable way.

互联网使学术期刊和开放访问业务模型的有效电子发布成为可能。最近的研究表明，开放存取期刊在各个学术学科中的采用情况并不均衡，特别是商业和经济学学科似乎落后于所有其他研究领域。通过对Scopus索引的期刊进行文献计量分析，我们发现Open Access期刊在商业，管理和会计方面的文章份额仅为6％。我们进一步研究了2014-2019年间在《金融时报》（Financial Times）50种期刊列表中的期刊中公开发表的文章的开放获取可用性（总共19,969篇文章）。没有一个期刊是完全开放获取的，但是有8％的文章是单独打开的，还有35％的早期手稿版本可以在网上公开获得。结果表明，在业务领域中，开放获取期刊的采用率低是评估实践的副作用，该评估实践强调在期刊（尤其是排名列表）中发表期刊，对商业模式创新产生了抑制作用，并且阻碍了期刊中新进入者的进入。当前，大多数商学院的研究都必须通过其他方式而不是通过完整的Open Access期刊来进行Open Access，并且图书馆在以可持续的方式促进这一过程中扮演着重要的角色。