The Journal of Management History (JMH) is the leading source for management and business history research and has played a central role in facilitating the discussions and investigations that advance management history thought and research. This article investigates the socio-cognitive nature of the journal’s “invisible college”—the group of scholars developing knowledge and methods pertaining to a specific field through communicating research results and scientific advancements in the journal. Specifically, this work analyzed patterns of co-citation, co-word, co-authorship, and sources that cited papers published in JMH between 2006 and 2022 using VOSviewer software to produce an interpretative description of the linkages and associations between different intellectual roots, topic trends, and schools of thought represented by research in JMH. Findings reveal that the journal is a big tent, with several types of schools of thought and topics represented, including traditional, critical, post, and modern perspectives in management history scholarship. In addition, the range of topics covered was extensive in the contribution to administrative management and organizational theory. The invisible college seems to function as a fragmented adhocracy moving toward a polycentric oligarchy. Additionally, findings reveal that the structure of the invisible college around JMH shares key similarities with the Management and Organizational Sciences invisible college and provide useful information for authors and editors to guide the research agendas to strengthen or introduce research topics.
