The Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) has made significant progress and impacts since its establishment. There have been extensive discussions and studies on the urgency, goals, and possible actions in relation to RRBM at both individual business schools and management research community by and large. However, there seems to be a…
Business schools could play a crucial role in helping governments prepare for the next pandemic by developing the next generation of the modelling and simulation community. Simulation modelling is an area of teaching and research found in many elite business schools. COVID-19 looks set to be the worst infectious disease pandemic of a generation in…
The current system is falling short of fulfilling our collective potential. The goal for researchers and their institutions should include business and societal impact, not simply to publish in a small set of journals with limited readership. The results of research are an important input into the curriculum and are the basis for informing public…
2022 “Responsible Research in Management” Award Sponsored by the Academy of Management Fellows Co-sponsored by Responsible Research in Business and Management Announcement of Winners June 20, 2022 Objectives The Fellows Group of the Academy of Management recognizes and honors members who have made significant contributions to the science and practice of management. In 2021,…
The Wharton School and INSEAD are proud to co-host the fourth annual Responsible Research Summit. It will be held on Wharton’s Philadelphia campus from 6-7 June 2022. The Summit aims to provide insights into how to encourage more business school researchers to address issues that have an impact and improve social well-being—what are some of…
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…
My own perspective of RRBM has much to do with my tenure as Editor in Chief of two rather different journals: the mainstream Information Systems Journal (ISJ) and the niche Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC). Mainstream IS research often adheres to the tenets of what JC Spender calls the Temple of…