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Table 3.

Further research for rebuilding social licence through social impact

Type of research	Potential further research topics
Methods	Empirical demonstration of behavioural nudges for driving institutional change Identification of mechanisms and boundary conditions Evaluation of university initiatives to improve social license
Research methods applied to university context	Strategies for rebuilding social licence in traditional universities or regional universities Internal reward structures and processes for incentivising social impact in traditional universities Comparisons across country and university type
Framework element
Business school fields of research with social impact implications	Applying recent breakthrough in fields of business studies to social enterprise, government and NGOs to leverage knowledge breakthroughs for everyone. (Lambell et al., 2008) Social marketing and behaviour change (Brennan et al., 2014) Not-for-profit studies (McGregor-Lowndes, 2018) Sustainability and ESG accounting (Khan, 2010) Inclusive Management and Human Resource Management practices (Ladwig, 2023) Effects of AI on workforce wellbeing (Watermann et al., 2025) Limiting racism in business and society (Ishaq et al., 2010) Research into gender-equity (Gander and Sharafizad, 2025) Impact of modern technology on the arts (Walsh, 2024)
Diversified student population	Scholarship of Learning into First Nations student success: what is the role that financial and non-financial support for students from low socio-economic backgrounds plays. (Dulleck et al., 2016) What determines the decision to engage in university education in remote communities and from lower SES groups? (Burnheim and Harvey, 2016) Scholarship of teaching with respect to underrepresented student groups (Langhout et al., 2023) Online teaching and its effects on first-in-family students (Kara, 2022) Research into lifelong learning, effectiveness of business education programs for veterans and other adult learners (Barragan et al., 2022)
Engagement with public policy processes	Developing metrics for capturing the engagement of business schools with policy processes (Haenlein and Jack, 2025) Targeting policy focused journals for business school research. (Petchko, 2018) Developing frameworks for policy impact on different levels of government. (Schlager, 2019)

Type of research	Potential further research topics
Methods	Empirical demonstration of behavioural nudges for driving institutional change Identification of mechanisms and boundary conditions Evaluation of university initiatives to improve social license
Research methods applied to university context	Strategies for rebuilding social licence in traditional universities or regional universities Internal reward structures and processes for incentivising social impact in traditional universities Comparisons across country and university type
Framework element
Business school fields of research with social impact implications	Applying recent breakthrough in fields of business studies to social enterprise, government and NGOs to leverage knowledge breakthroughs for everyone. (Lambell et al., 2008) Social marketing and behaviour change (Brennan et al., 2014) Not-for-profit studies (McGregor-Lowndes, 2018) Sustainability and ESG accounting (Khan, 2010) Inclusive Management and Human Resource Management practices (Ladwig, 2023) Effects of AI on workforce wellbeing (Watermann et al., 2025) Limiting racism in business and society (Ishaq et al., 2010) Research into gender-equity (Gander and Sharafizad, 2025) Impact of modern technology on the arts (Walsh, 2024)
Diversified student population	Scholarship of Learning into First Nations student success: what is the role that financial and non-financial support for students from low socio-economic backgrounds plays. (Dulleck et al., 2016) What determines the decision to engage in university education in remote communities and from lower SES groups? (Burnheim and Harvey, 2016) Scholarship of teaching with respect to underrepresented student groups (Langhout et al., 2023) Online teaching and its effects on first-in-family students (Kara, 2022) Research into lifelong learning, effectiveness of business education programs for veterans and other adult learners (Barragan et al., 2022)
Engagement with public policy processes	Developing metrics for capturing the engagement of business schools with policy processes (Haenlein and Jack, 2025) Targeting policy focused journals for business school research. (Petchko, 2018) Developing frameworks for policy impact on different levels of government. (Schlager, 2019)

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