The challenges of positioning a national academic journal. The case of Recherche et Applications en Marketing

Recherche et Applications en Marketing was created in 1986 and quickly became a benchmark academic journal among the francophone community. While it is now facing a decisive period during which the sustainability of its existence requires broadening its readership to the international sphere, being published in English is necessary but not sufficient to stand out in a landscape that already has many general journals. The need to find an axis of differentiation while respecting the dominant scientific formalism can lead to favouring, in a given context, the most relevant and precise definition (and therefore the most valid measure) of the fundamental constructs that structure a field of research.