Impactful Management Research: The Importance of Finding the Voice of Practice in Management Research
Management research in business schools faces increasing internal and external criticism for the production of rigorous and theoretically grounded but irrelevant research (Mintzberg, 2004; Pfeffer, 2007). This criticism is compounded by often unfavourable comparisons between the academic stature of...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2010
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| Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4023 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5022/viewcontent/ThomasH_MgtResearch_2010.pdf |
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| Summary: | Management research in business schools faces increasing internal and external criticism for the production of rigorous and theoretically grounded but irrelevant research (Mintzberg, 2004; Pfeffer, 2007). This criticism is compounded by often unfavourable comparisons between the academic stature of business schools relative to other professional schools (e.g. medicine, law and engineering) (Bennis and O'Toole, 2005; Khurana, 2007) and to the university communities which they reside (Starkey and Tiratsoo, 2007). |
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