The Five Cs Framework for Scholarly Writing

The Five Cs Framework for Scholarly Writing Ā  Speaker: Prof. Don Lange, Arizona State University   In a 2017 AMR ā€˜Editor’s Comments’ piece, along with Mike Pfarrer, I articulated a framework designed to help you organize your scholarly thinking. For shorthand, we can call it the ā€˜Five-Cs’ approach, as it consists of these five ā€˜building…

Re-imagining the Research Process

Re-imagining the Research Process Ā  Speaker: Professor Mats Alvesson (Lund University)     This talk offers a unique solution to the shortage of more imaginative and engaging research by re-imagining the core elements of the research process, through contrasting conventional and alternative metaphors. In contrast to existing methods, which mainly focus on standard ingredients in…

How to Do Relevant Research – part 3

How to Do Relevant Research – part 3:Ā  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…

Better, Not Perfect

Better, Not Perfect   Speaker: Professor Max Bazerman (Harvard Business School)   This presentation is based on Max Bazerman’s book by the same name as the title of the talk (Harper Business, 2020): Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical component as well; you value certain…

How to Do Relevant Research – part 2

How to Do Relevant Research – part 2:Ā  Navigating the Networked Value Stream of Organizational and Management Research Ā  Speakers: Dr. Susan Albers Mohrman, Prof John Boudreau and Prof Christopher G. Worley   The eco-system of organizational knowledge is an expansive, diverse, and dynamic network of actors and activities. Organizational researchers who aspire to have…