It is a general understanding that higher education has characteristics of an “experience good” because the quality cannot be determined before receiving the service, which induces information asymmetry. In response to reducing the asymmetry, external assessment tools like international accreditations have emerged in higher education, which is especially evident in the field of business and management research. Quality is an integral part of reputation and legitimisation, so business schools actively engage in the accreditation race. In order to ensure legitimacy in the higher education market, business schools pay special attention to their intellectual output. It is reflected in the development of academic policies designed to encourage publication activities. It is pivotal to analyse how international accreditations contribute to the research performance and impact of business schools. The results of the study provide evidence that AACSB accreditation contributes to the research performance, however, it does not contribute to increasing the impact of the papers. Since the signalling research-based reputation is important for business schools, the study places attention on further examination of determinants of impactful research as international accreditation only determines the growth of quantity not the quality.

人们普遍认为，高等教育具有“体验良好”的特征，因为在接受服务之前无法确定质量，从而导致信息不对称。为了减少不对称性，高等教育中出现了国际认证等外部评估工具，这在商业和管理研究领域尤为明显。质量是声誉和合法化不可或缺的一部分，因此商学院积极参与认证竞赛。为了确保高等教育市场的合法性，商学院特别关注其智力输出。它反映在旨在鼓励出版活动的学术政策的制定中。分析国际认证如何促进商学院的研究绩效和影响至关重要。研究结果提供了证据，表明 AACSB 认证有助于提高研究绩效，但无助于提高论文的影响力。由于基于信号的研究声誉对商学院很重要，因此该研究将注意力集中在对影响研究的决定因素的进一步检查上，因为国际认证只决定数量而不是质量的增长。