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Bridging the Relevance Gap: Aligning Stakeholders in the Future of Management Research
Author(s) -
Starkey Ken,
Madan Paula
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
british journal of management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.407
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1467-8551
pISSN - 1045-3172
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8551.12.s1.2
Subject(s) - bridging (networking) , relevance (law) , general partnership , criticism , context (archaeology) , knowledge management , public relations , business , process (computing) , sociology , engineering ethics , political science , computer science , engineering , computer network , law , paleontology , finance , biology , operating system
This report examines the relevance gap in management research. Its focus is the nature of knowledge created by research at the interface between business and academia in the context of major changes likely to affect the nature of demand for such knowledge. Management research has been accused of a lack of relevance to managerial practice and of too narrow a discipline base. The report examines the conditions giving rise to this criticism, in the UK and elsewhere, and identifies an important strategic need to increase the stakeholding of users in various aspects of the research and knowledge creation and dissemination process. The report concludes with recommendations concerning new forms of research partnership and research training that will address the relevance gap. However, bridging this gap does not only require changes in the academic mind‐set. Managers and firms too need to rethink their involvement in the research process.