Table of contents - Special Issue: Journal rankings and the notion of “relevance” within business research
Guest Editors: Per Freytag
Questionable research practices in academia: antecedents and consequences
David B. Grant, Gyöngyi Kovács, Karen SpensThe purpose of this paper is to discuss questionable research practices (QRPs) in business research, particularly in the logistics and supply chain management discipline, in light…
Bridging the relevance-ranking chasm: mission impossible?
Judy ZolkiewskiThis paper aims to debate the challenges related to balancing relevance and ranking in management research.
To what is the review process relevant?: What’s right and what’s wrong with peer review for academic business journals
Barry J. Babin, Julie Guidry MoulardThe purpose of this paper is to consider various strengths and weaknesses of the academic review process with an emphasis on the effect the process has on the relevance of…
The fallacy of impact without relevance – reclaiming relevance and rigor
Ram NarasimhanThe purpose of this paper is to underscore the fundamental importance of relevance to an applied field such as supply chain management (SCM). It is argued that simultaneity of…
Knowledge exchange and management research: barriers and potentials
Torben BagerThe growing involvement of management researchers in knowledge exchange activities and collaborative research does not seem to be reflected in a growing academic output. The…
Rigor, relevance, and the knowledge “market”
Joanne Hamet, Sylvie MichelThe “relevance literature” often moans that the publications of top-ranked academic journals are hardly relevant to managers, while actionable research struggles to get published…
Rigorous and Relevant – introducing a critical discourse analysis to the relevance debate
Izabelle Bäckström, Kajsa AhlgrenThe purpose of this paper is to explore how the notion of “relevance” is produced, distributed and consumed in the field of management research by applying a critical discourse…
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- Prof Goran Svensson