Bridging the Rigour-Relevance Gap in Management Research: It's Already Happening
Kieser and Leiner (2009) maintain that the rigour–relevance gap in management research is fundamentally unbridgeable because researchers and the researched inhabit separate social systems. They argue that it is impossible to assess the relevance of research outputs within the system of science and t...
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| Published in: | Journal of management studies Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 534 - 546 |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01.05.2009
Wiley Blackwell |
| Series: | Journal of Management Studies |
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| ISSN: | 0022-2380, 1467-6486 |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | Kieser and Leiner (2009) maintain that the rigour–relevance gap in management research is fundamentally unbridgeable because researchers and the researched inhabit separate social systems. They argue that it is impossible to assess the relevance of research outputs within the system of science and that neither action research nor related approaches to collaborative research can succeed in producing research that is rigorous as well as relevant. In reply, we show how their analysis is inconsistent with available evidence. Drawing on a diversity of management research domains, we provide counter‐illustrations of work where researchers, in a number of cases in collaboration with practitioners, have generated knowledge that is both socially useful and academically rigorous. |
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| Bibliography: | ark:/67375/WNG-NQH3SBQB-Z ArticleID:JOMS832 istex:EF9227A89E54838E257F0C196D65CB27678BB43C SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 14 ObjectType-Article-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0022-2380 1467-6486 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00832.x |