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 āpublish or perishā mantra is…
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…
2023 āResponsible Research in Managementā Award Sponsored by the Academy of Management Fellows Co-sponsored by the Responsible Research in Business and Management Supported by the University of Michiganās Ross School of Business Call for Nominations Submission deadline: January 31, 2023 Ā Objectives This award recognizes rigorously conducted and societally beneficial research contributing knowledge with the…
2021 Responsible Research Roundtable Participant Biographies Brief Biography Group Robert Allen is a Professor and David Eccles Faculty Scholar at the University of Utah, and in 2020, Bob was elected President-Elect of the American Accounting Association. He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Utah Outstanding Educator Award and the American Accounting Association/Deloitte…
Management and Organizational Science (MOS), a pillar of the Social, Behavioral and Economic field, is a young science. Nonetheless, it has moved rapidly from an initial focus purely on practice (previous to the reports by the Ford and Carnegie Foundations in the 1960s) to its current state where it relies on more of a āpure…
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…
“And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic [human] invasion.”Ā Joseph Conrad, Hearth of Darkness, 1899 Hope & cooperation or fear & despair: how does humanity respond to…