Business professors from 53 schools around the world identify 6 priorities for companies in the COVID-19 era The day before our university closed down, my MBA students debated the price that the company that discovers the COVID-19 vaccine should charge. None of us expected the university to shut down indefinitely the next day. Two months…
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…
2021 RRAS Participant Pre-Summit Preparatory Readings RRBM Position Paper. This document provides a common understanding of the terms “Responsible Research” and “societal impact” of research, as well as principles for designing research to enhance its credibility and usefulness. Brief summary of the Responsible Research Summit 2019 at the Rotterdam School of Management. Brief summary…
As many of you know, I research resilience, that is, the capacity of individuals, organisations and communities to recover from substantial adversity. In this essay, I offer some of my own experiences and observations, and hope that they can contribute to tackling major global challenges such as the Covid-19 health emergency and climate change. I…
Inaugural OB Division Award for Societal Impact Sponsored by Pepperdine Graziadio Business School and the OB Division The 2020 recipient from the OB Division Award for Societal Impact is Laura Morgan Roberts from the University of Virginia Scholarly work with societal impact is both scientifically credible and useful to society; it produces societally…
Wanted : Volunteer Research AssistantsWe are seeking several Volunteer Research Assistants for the months of Jan 15 to July 15, 2021 to work with the Academy of Management Fellows’ Committee on the Responsible Research in Management Award. Apply here The RRBM Community is happy to share research and job opportunities from within its network. Please…
Position PaperExecutive Summary This position paper presents a vision of a future in which business schools and scholars worldwide have successfully transformed their research toward responsible science, producing useful and credible knowledge that addresses problems important to business and society. This vision is based on the belief that business can be a means for a…
2022 RRS Preparatory Readings The RRBM Position Paper. This document provides a common understanding of the terms “Responsible Research” and “societal impact” of research, as well as principles for designing research to enhance its credibility and usefulness. The brief summary of the 2019 Responsible Research Summit at the Rotterdam School of Management. The brief…