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Has Management Studies Lost Its Way? Ideas for More Imaginative and Innovative Research

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Despite the huge increase in the number of management articles published during the three last decades, there is a serious shortage of high-impact research in management studies. We contend that a primary reason behind this paradoxical shortage is the near total dominance of incremental gap-spotting research in management. This domination is even more paradoxical as it is well known that gap-spotting rarely leads to influential theories. We identify three broad and interacting key drivers behind this double paradox: institutional conditions, professional norms, and researchers' identity constructions. We discuss how specific changes in these drivers can reduce the shortage of influential management theories. We also point to two methodologies that may encourage and facilitate more innovative and imaginative research and revisions of academic norms and identities.

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

128-152

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Management Studies

Volym

50

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Business Administration

Nyckelord

  • interesting theories
  • problematization
  • research methods
  • research
  • problems
  • research questions
  • theory development

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1467-6486