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Bridging the Rigour–Relevance Gap in Management Research: It's Already Happening!

Bridging the Rigour–Relevance Gap in Management Research: It's Already Happening! abstract 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. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Management Studies Wiley

Bridging the Rigour–Relevance Gap in Management Research: It's Already Happening!

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2009
ISSN
0022-2380
eISSN
1467-6486
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00832.x
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Abstract

abstract 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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Journal of Management StudiesWiley

Published: May 1, 2009

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