COVID-19 and management scholarship: Lessons for conducting impactful research

The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for management scholars to address large-scale and complex societal problems and strive for greater practical and policy impact. A brief overview of the most-cited work on COVID-19 reveals that, compared with their counterparts in other disciplines, lead...

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Main Authors: GEORGE, Gerard, ERTUG, Gokhan, DOH, Jonathan P., MAIR, Johanna, PRASAD, Ajnesh
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7475
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8474/viewcontent/george_et_al_2024_covid_19_and_management_scholarship_lessons_for_conducting_impactful_research.pdf
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Summary:The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for management scholars to address large-scale and complex societal problems and strive for greater practical and policy impact. A brief overview of the most-cited work on COVID-19 reveals that, compared with their counterparts in other disciplines, leading management journals and professional associations lagged in providing a platform for high-impact research on COVID-19. To help management research play a more active role in responding to similar global challenges in the future, we propose an integrative framework that emphasizes a phenomenon’s impact, the conditions that the phenomenon creates at multiple levels, and the responses of actors to such conditions, as well as the dynamic relationships and interactions among these actors. By shifting attention to phenomena and their overall impact, this framework can help scholars better position their work to address large-scale and complex problems and also to assess research for its contribution to generate impact beyond academia.