I will let my colleagues, students, and the broad society know that I stand with the seven principles of RRBM. I will review those principles whenever I make important decisions in my academic career, now as a Ph.D. student and in the future as a professor.
I would like to see our journals adopt a policy of reviewing research prior to data collection and then reporting the results, rather than writing theory to the results.
I have been involved in creating a New game for doing management Research – in developing a sharing philosophy. More information by request.
As President of EURAM, I devoted my energy to create a community of engaged management scholars
I train and mentor PhD students and junior faculty to spend their time and energy on making contributions
My main motto is presently “Life is too short to drink bad wine.”
I am continually reminding colleagues and the university leadership about the flaws in the present Publishing paradigm.
As much as possible, I avoid Publishing, unless there is something I really burn for. The most recent publication is in Cambridge Elements, which is an alternative outlet for our work.
I intend to work with social enterprises and non-profit organizations in India to make them resilient and sustainable. This I hope will enable them to increase the breath and width of their outreach and help the community.
I believe we all need to rethink the purpose of our research. My current work focus, for example, has moved from expatriate management to refugee workforce integration (including both research in this domain, as well as active engagement with the community). Management scholars can have a more prominent position in addressing the challenges societies face.
A lot of our research is just written for other academics, and a lot of it is designed to get through the review process rather than to address a substantive issue in a meaningful way. That’s a lot of wasted brainpower.
Way to go! This vision gives us the true meaning of our career!
I intend to support the RRBM movement by channeling my scholarship towards human and social challenges, particularly in non-developed and resource adverse contexts.
I also aim to further strengthen my pedagogy by introducing students to larger global challenges and encouraging them to apply, change, adapt western-oriented theories and management techniques/practices to address those challenges.
Last but not least, I hope to serve the RRBM in whichever fashion that this movement wants me as a member.
I took a personal decision to drop out of the paper publication performance race -a “publish and perish” system that erodes the meaning and pleasure of research as well as the ailing university budgets. I want to show the world that we are partly responsible for driving this treadmill and there is an alternative. We can do good and useful research without depending on expensive journal outlets. To me, that is responsible action!
Ensure that RRBM principles are taught and ingrained in my school’s PhD program.
