Pitching business school researcher profiles
Abstract
Purpose
The authors passively apply a researcher profile pitch (RPP) template tool in accounting and across a range of Business School disciplines.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors document a diversity of worked examples of the RPP. Using an auto-ethnographic research design, each showcased researcher reflects on the exercise, highlighting nuanced perspectives drawn from their experience. Collectively, these examples and associated independent narratives allow the authors to identify common themes that provide informative insights to potential users.
Findings
First, the RPP tool is helpful for accounting scholars to portray their essential research stream. Moreover, the tool proved universally meaningful and applicable irrespective of research discipline or research experience. Second, it offers a distinct advantage over existing popular research profile platforms, because it demands a focused “less”, that delivers a meaningful “more”. Further, the conciseness of the RPP design makes it readily amenable to iteration and dynamism. Third, the authors have identified specific situations of added value, e.g. initiating research collaborations and academic job market preparation.
Practical implications
The RPP tool can provide the basis for developing a scalable interactive researcher exchange platform.
Originality/value
The authors argue that the RPP tool potentially adds meaningful incremental value relative to existing popular platforms for gaining researcher visibility. This additional value derives from the systematic RPP format, combined with the benefit of easy familiarity and strong emphasis on succinctness. Additionally, the authors argue that the RPP adds a depth of nuanced novel information often not contained in other platforms, e.g. around the dimensions of “data” and “tools”. Further, the RPP gives the researcher a “personality”, most notably through the dimensions of “contribution” and “other considerations”.
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Acknowledgements
Since acceptance of this article, the following author(s) have updated their affiliation(s): Robert Faff is at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and Adrian Gepp is at the Bangor Business School, Bangor University, Wales, UK.
Citation
Faff, R., Mathuva, D., Brosnan, M., Hoffmann, S., Albu, C., Ali, S., Axelsen, M., Cornwell, N., Gepp, A., Gill, C., Honey, K., Malik, I., Mehrotra, V., Moses, O., Ratiu, R.V., Tan, D. and Tuszkiewicz, M.A. (2023), "Pitching business school researcher profiles", Journal of Accounting Literature, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAL-10-2022-0105
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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