RRBM Webinar: Scholarly Impact – Finding the Holy Grail Speaker: Professor Herman Aguinis November 18, 2020, 9.30 am (Eastern time) / 2.30 pm (London time) The desire to have an impact on different stakeholders including researchers, students, and society at large is a long-term aspiration of most academics—a sort of search of the “Holy…
“RRBM Webinar: Doing Meaningful Research: Traps and Tricks” Speaker: Professor Mats Alvesson Thursday, 22nd of October at 9AM (Eastern) / 3PM (Central European) / 6.30PM (Delhi) This research webinar is aimed at PhD students and early-career scholars interested in conducting meaningful research. There are many complaints about most research having little of…
BYLAWS RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH IN BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT (Approved May 22, 2020 – Amended March 15, 2022) ARTICLE 1 – NAME, PURPOSES, AND CORE VALUES ARTICLE 2 – COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP ARTICLE 3 – WORKING BOARD ARTICLE 4 – OFFICERS ARTICLE 5 – COMMITTEES ARTICLE 6 – REGIONAL REPRESENTATION ARTICLE 7 – FISCAL YEAR ARTICLE 8…
The COVID-19 pandemic and our response to it has changed the way we work together, threatening the sustainability and utility of organizations by disrupting work processes related to collaboration, information sharing, and technology. The work that organizations do and the outcomes they offer to the market ultimately depend on people working together, whether in formal…
Appendix B: Initiatives and opportunities to change the status quo Category 1: Initiatives on improving research relevance 1. Research Excellence Framework Decisions on assessing research impact. The UK Research Excellence Framework (2014) placed 20% weight on societal impact in assessing universities research programs. 2. The UK Stern Report (2016) calls for a broadening of the…
In this short essay, I would like to explain why a behavioral perspective on corporate social responsibility (CSR) is useful in helping us understand and possibly also offer solutions for some of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and, more generally, other natural environmental disasters and stressors. Our research over the past 15+ years…
The coronavirus, or COVID-19, and climate change are very different problems. But the global response to the coronavirus gives me hope that we can tackle other global threats. It is hard to see the positive in the novel coronavirus and its associated disease, COVID-19. Not only has COVID-19 made people very sick, it has…
More and more papers in management studies are badly written, use dubious methods (such as p-hacking) to achieve spuriously positive results, and avoid the really big issues facing our discipline and our world. Why is this? My new book offers some explanations and identifies some tentative solutions. Above all, the ‘publish or perish’ mantra is…