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- Title
Scholarly Impact: A Pluralist Conceptualization.
- Authors
AGUINIS, HERMAN; SHAPIRO, DEBRA L.; ANTONACOPOULOU, ELENA P.; CUMMINGS, THOMAS G.
- Abstract
We critically assess a common approach to scholarly impact that relies almost exclusively on a single stakeholder (i.e., other academics). We argue that this approach is narrow and insufficient, and thereby threatens the credibility and long-term sustainability of the management research community. We offer a solution in the form of a broader and novel conceptual and measurement framework of scholarly impact: a pluralist perspective. It proposes actions that depart from the current win-lose and zerosum views that lead to false trade-offs such as research versus practice, rigor versus relevance, and research versus service. Our proposed pluralist conceptualization can be instrumental in enabling business schools and other academic units to clarify their strategic direction in terms of which stakeholders they are trying to affect and why, the way future scholars are trained, and the design and implementation of faculty performance management systems. We argue that the adoption of a pluralist conceptualization of scholarly impact can increase motivation for engaged scholarship and design-science research that is more conducive to actionable knowledge as opposed to exclusive career-focused advances, enhance the relevance and value of our scholarship, and thereby help to narrow the much-lamented chasm between research and practice.
- Subjects
PLURALISM; SCHOLARLY periodicals; SUSTAINABILITY; SCHOLARLY method; ACADEMIC motivation; TRUTHFULNESS &; falsehood; PERFORMANCE management; EXPERIMENTAL design
- Publication
Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2014, Vol 13, Issue 4, p623
- ISSN
1537-260X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/amle.2014.0121