Promoting Scholarship that Matters: The Uselessness of Useful Research and the Usefulness of Useless Research

被引：37

作者：

Learmonth, Mark ^{[1
]}

Lockett, Andy ^{[2
]}

Dowd, Kevin ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Durham, Durham Business Sch, Durham DH1 3LB, England

[2] Univ Warwick, Warwick Business Sch, Coventry CV4 7AL, W Midlands, England

[3] Cass Business Sch, London EC1Y 8TZ, England

来源：

BRITISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT | 2012年 / 23卷 / 01期

关键词：

EVIDENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT; RELEVANCE GAP; ORGANIZATION; REFLEXIVE; KNOWLEDGE; EDUCATION; FASHIONS; SCIENCE; SCHOOL;

D O I：

10.1111/j.1467-8551.2011.00754.x

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Our ambition in this essay is to challenge received wisdoms about the importance of useful management scholarship. Suggesting that usefulness and uselessness are contingent on issues of temporality and power, we advocate caution in assigning terms such as useful and relevant they are inherently problematic, we argue, and should be viewed more as ideology than as empirical statements. We conclude by a call for reflexivity about what it is we are doing when we do useful research, along with a greater concern for the values for which business schools stand.

引用

页码：35 / 44

页数：10

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