The Covid-19 pandemic is not just a health, economic, and humanitarian crisis, it is laying bare some undeniable truths in societies worldwide: It emphasises the extent of inequalities, both between and within societies. In the dynamics between nations, these inequalities revolve around the reliance on international funding bodies for humanitarian aid — and what happens…
The Impact Scholar Community supports early-career management scholars in developing impact capabilities. An initial inquiry reveals where we want to help most. Sylvia Grewatsch (Brock University), Nicholas Poggioli (University of Michigan) and Garima Sharma (University of New Mexico) are organizers of the Impact Scholar Community. Early-career management researchers who care about impact face unique…
Including Practitioners in Co-Creating Desirable Future Speaker: Dr Garima Sharma (Georgia State University) Management research fails to impact practice because our focus is on evidence from the past that may not reflect practitioners’ current reality. Further, we use this historical evidence to predict the future. However, as the current crises has shown, often…
I was deeply honored to be the recipient of the 2021 Responsible Research in Management Award from the Academy of Management Fellows Group and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) for my 2020 book Better, Not Perfect: Moving Toward Maximum Sustainable Goodness (2020). Better focuses on helping the reader be better…
Pre-Readings for Responsible Research Virtual Summit 2020 1) Readings Zoom guidelines Brief program agenda RRBM brief status report Participant list (in alphabetical order) Group list with facilitators RRS2019 Rotterdam brief report RRBM position paper **I Will status report (actions on RRS2019 participants’ “I Will” statements) **Nature article “Economists must collaborate courageously” Nature 582, 9 (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01505-3…
RRBM PRO WEBINAR Responsible Research in pandemic times EVENT DETAILS Crises often create opportunities for creative responses because of the inspiration they provide to think differently. A pandemic crisis is unique in its that its impact is universal, impacting upon every country and every sector. It can wreak havoc. Thankfully, business and management research, embracing…
As we struggle with how best to combat COVID-19 in many parts of the world, stark differences have emerged in both the strategies and relative success rates of individual countries in stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus. Remarkably, China and South Korea have successfully arrested the expansion of the virus, while others, including the…