... 2015 Responsibility Sustainability Management research Responsible leadership Faculty development Management education Relevance of management research Role of business schools Student learning Faculty selection Faculty training Purpose of business schools The feeling...

... influential reports in the USA and the UK in the late 1950s and the early 1960s, that called for a more rigorous and scientific approach to management education [2] . Doctoral education Business schools Knowledge society Management research We need more and better adapted PhD graduates...

.... David C. Wilson can be contacted at: D.C.Wilson@warwick.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Business schools Accreditation Regulation Management research Relevance Strategic choice and change It is a truism to say that business schools and business education are big...

...” in both engagement and interaction and also better links through intermediaries. Originality/value The paper adds to the on‐going debate about the relevance of management research as well as the role of business school. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Management research Business...

... statements from high‐profile academics, government, the research councils, and many business and management researchers. Forces against it relate principally to editorial and reviewer processes relating to journal publication and grant awards. Modes of academically rigorous, practice relevant research...

...Eric Cornuel; Howard Thomas; Howard Thomas Purpose In recent years, the role and value of management research is being increasingly challenged because of the perceived imbalance between its rigour and relevance. The purpose of this paper is to review the progress of management research in the UK...

...Eric Cornuel; Howard Thomas; Michael I. Reed Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and evaluation of the “theory/practice” gap in business and management research as it has been developed in relation to US and European business and management schools. Design/methodology...

...Eric Cornuel; Howard Thomas; Howard Thomas; Alex Wilson Purpose The purpose of this paper examines some of the controversies facing business schools in their future evolution and pays particular attention to their competitive positioning as centres of management research. Design/methodology...

... begin. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Action research Strategic planning Management research In French (2009d) , action research (AR) was utilised to develop the ideas that led to the creation and implementation of the inductive frame, represented by the compact big...

... they represented would be compensated financially for it, the bulk of the work would be down to the inner group. Hence, the following objective was achieved: enlist the support of interested/influential parties to the project. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Management research Action...

..., 1988a, b ; Dick and Swepson, 1994 ; Masters, 1995). Foster (1972 , p. 104) suggests that the AR literature is not “overburdened with attempts to distinguish between it and other forms of applied social science research”. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Management research Action...

... development programmes and the influence of organisational culture on their effectiveness. Specifically, they are discovering ways to conduct meaningful evaluation despite the constraints imposed by the typical organisational setting. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Management Development Management...