Pretty much all fields have shit papers, but if you ever feel the need to develop a superiority complex, take a vacation from your STEM field and have a look at what your university offers under the "business"-anything label. If anyone in those fields manages to produce anything of quality, they're defying the odds and should be considered one of the greats along the line of Euclid, Galileo Galilei, or Isaac Newton - because they surely didn't have many shoulders to stand on either.

This is exactly how I felt when studying management as part of ostensibly an Engineering / Econ / Management degree.

When you added it up, most of the hard parts were Engineering, and a bit Econ. You would really struggle to work through tough questions in engineering, spend a lot of time on economic theory, and then read the management stuff like you were reading a newspaper.

Management you could spot a mile away as being soft. There's certainly some interesting ideas, but even as students we could smell it was lacking something. It's just a bit too much like a History Channel documentary. Entertaining, certainly, but it felt like false enlightenment.

I suppose it's to be expected, the business department is built around the art of generating profit from cheap inputs. It's business thinking in action!