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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Main Author: THOMAS, Howard
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-50222016-04-03T07:46:08Z Impactful Management Research: The Importance of Finding the Voice of Practice in Management Research THOMAS, Howard 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). 2010-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf 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 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Business
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Impactful Management Research: The Importance of Finding the Voice of Practice in Management Research
description 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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url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4023
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