2021 RRR Groups

Group lists First Name Last Name Primary Affiliation Primary Professional Role Country Group 1 Africa Arino IESE Business School Professor Strategy Spain Ruben Atekpe MECOWA Group Executive Chairman Ghana Sudipta Basu (*) Temple University Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Programs USA Ibrat Djabbarov (*) Cranfield School of Management PhD Candidate UK Kem Ferag IBM…

RRVS Groups

  List of Stakeholder Groups   First Name Last Name Affiliation Discipline GROUP 1 : ACCREDITATION LEADERS Caryn Beck-Dudley * AACSB Management Stephanie Bryant AACSB Management Dan LeClair Global Business Schools Network Economics Alfons Sauquet EFMD & ESADE Management Barbara Sporn EFMD & VU Management Matthew Wood EFMD Management GROUP 2 : ASSOCIATION LEADERS Cristina…

Relevant & Responsible Research to Counter Competition
Andreas Kaplan

Management research often faces questions and criticism about its practical impact and purpose. A recent Financial Times article stated that professors are increasingly studying “abstract, abstruse, and overly academic topics with little resonance beyond the higher education sector” and summarized the status quo of research at business schools as “underperforming.” Management researchers would mainly write…

Background

Business schools around the world are home to some of the most brilliant and well-supported scholars in all of the social sciences. Research feeds knowledge to business education, yet current research is often disconnected from real-world challenges. There is no shortage of problems whose solutions implicate business, from alleviating poverty and hunger to creating clean…