For many years, business schools have sought an appropriate balance of rigour and relevance in relation to their activities and the impact upon their stakeholders. Concern over impact has helped spawn a number of systems of research assessment aiming to incorporate and measure that elusive impact. Meanwhile Accreditation and Rankings bodies have tended to focus…
“Build Back Better” Due to the pandemic, the second global Responsible Research Summit scheduled for June 27 – 28, 2020 at the Imperial College Business School, London was held instead as a Virtual Summit (RRVS) on June 29, 2020. The goal of the RRVS2020 was to discuss widening and deepening responsible research to strengthen…
“And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic [human] invasion.” Joseph Conrad, Hearth of Darkness, 1899 Hope & cooperation or fear & despair: how does humanity respond to…
Developing an Engaged Scholarship Research Study Speaker: Professor Andrew Van de Ven (University of Minnesota) Time: POSTPONED Registration: Coming soon. The objective of this workshop is to develop a good research idea that you would submit to a doctoral dissertation committee, a research foundation or beyond. A good research proposal is…
RRBM (www.rrbm.network) Brief Status Report June 15, 2020 Prepared for the participants of the 2020 Responsible Research Virtual Summit on June 29. Origin: RRBM was founded in 2015, by 24 senior business professors around the world (10 countries) representing the five core business disciplines of accounting, finance, management, marketing, and operations management. Supporting…
How to Do Relevant Research – part 3: Managing Multi-Faceted and Multi-Directional Relationships Speakers: Dr Philip H. Mirvis, Dr. Rob Cross and Dr. Susan Albers Mohrman Generating and disseminating knowledge relevant to practice requires expanding our conceptual and empirical reach and our aspirations for impact beyond our institutional and discipline-based communities. Using case…
Dare to Care Research Cafe Inaugural Dare to Care Research Café November 20, 2020 WHAT IS THE CAFÉ ALL ABOUT? Grab a cup of joe and join the Dare to Care Research Café — an online, virtual conversation series designed to connect early stage scholars (PhD students, junior faculty) with experienced faculty who have published in…
Call for Nominations: 2019 ONE and Network for Business Sustainability Research Impact on Practice Award The Research Impact on Practice Award recognizes a piece of contemporary, peer-reviewed research that has important implications for practice. The research may focus on any issue that is of societal or environmental importance. The Network for Business Sustainability (NBS)…