Look around and business schools are making grand claims to be working responsibly, sustainability, ethically, for society and even for humanity. While the criticism levelled at business schools after the financial scandals of the early 2000s and the 2008 Financial Crisis lead to soul searching for the sector these can seem like quite ambitious claims. Yet…
Business schools began in partnership with businesses. We maintain relationships with our business communities through formal relationships with advisory boards, career centers, and adjunct faculty. As we strive for responsible research in business and management, perhaps we can look to stronger/more prevalent formal business relationships related to our research. Perhaps we’ll soon see corporate names…
Technology, which has made our lives immeasurably better (thus, we live longer and healthier lives), is now one of the greatest threats facing humankind. In brief, technology is more pervasive and invasive than ever before. It encompasses and affects every aspect of our lives. From chip implants that threaten to alter irreparably our brains and…
I had the opportunity to present the initiative as a keynote speaker at the EFMD Doctoral Programme Conference recently and was surprised by the degree of intellectual resistance to the idea. I had chosen a purposefully interactive presentation format, inviting the audience of Ph.D. Directors to reflect on their role in crafting programs that generate…
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…
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…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) is pleased to announce the appointment of eight distinguished individuals to its Working Board. These new members will serve a three-year term, bringing their extensive expertise and commitment to advancing responsible research in business and management. The new members joining the RRBM Working Board are:…
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,…
“Valuing Plurality and Multidisciplinary Collaboration” is one of the core principles of RRBM. At Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) and MIS Quarterly (MISQ), we endorse this principle (along with many others) and wondered what this principle could look like in practice at our journals. Beyond supporting interdisciplinary scholarship, how could we as journal editors encourage multidisciplinary…
AOM Fellows ’23 RRM Award_Online Call for Nominations_11-17-22