RRBM is asking Business and Management academics to put their brains into a new form of engaged “scholarship that addresses important challenges and produces actionable knowledge.” I felt compelled to put also my body. Fed up with the feeling of hopelessness bred by watching our world heading towards collapse and my fellow humans willfully and…
Responsible research sounds like an obvious idea. Who exactly is in favor of “irresponsible research?” And why is now the time to join an effort aimed at changing the ecosystem for business research? My answer is that we are at a turning point in the organization of capitalism, and the direction we take is not…
Management and Organizational Science (MOS), a pillar of the Social, Behavioral and Economic field, is a young science. Nonetheless, it has moved rapidly from an initial focus purely on practice (previous to the reports by the Ford and Carnegie Foundations in the 1960s) to its current state where it relies on more of a “pure…
My own perspective of RRBM has much to do with my tenure as Editor in Chief of two rather different journals: the mainstream Information Systems Journal (ISJ) and the niche Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC). Mainstream IS research often adheres to the tenets of what JC Spender calls the Temple of…
The train is just starting to roll and it is not too late to give another push and get everyone on board. The community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (cRRBM) built an excellent case for action and a compelling vision to change the dysfunctional eco-system supporting and rewarding research that fails to live…
The RRBM’s community call for action is an important one. The unintended, often negative, consequences of the academic system in and around business schools are well-known. In 2016, I published The Quest for Professionalism (awarded by RRBM as a good example of responsible research), which includes a comprehensive analysis of the stalemate in our discipline…
Recently, I had the distinct privilege of talking to and mentoring PhD students from all over the world at a PhD Consortium on service research held at the School of Management at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. I talked to this group of nearly 100 business school PhD students and junior faculty about doing problem-based,…
Responsible Research in Business and Management (short RRBM) has been a long journey in the making, but it is still in the beginning stages. From the start, we knew that this would be a difficult project. RRBM is like trying to move a big mountain; however, the group of 28 RRBM founders was not afraid.…
The Responsible Research for Business and Management (RRBM) community has issued a call for action to all business and management scholars who are dissatisfied with the current research system. Finally there is a way to ensure you are heard! Many scholars have been writing about the unintended negative consequences of the academic system and its…