Conducting Influential Research: The Need for Prescriptive Implications

By Max H. Bazerman. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences

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Why Do Bad Management Theories Persist? A Comment on Ghoshal (2005, background): “Bazerman (2005) argues that the social sciences, other than economics, have been reluctant to be”
The employee–organization relationship: Where do we go from here? (2007, background): “organizational scholars have expressed concern over our collective failure to “matter” more in terms of the way management is practiced (Abrahamson & Eisenman, 2001; Bazerman, 2005; Pfeffer, 1998).”
In Search of Management Accounting Theory (2009, background): “labeled as consultants? As Bazerman (2005, p. 29) notes: ‘As a graduate student in the late 1970s, I was trained to be descriptive; prescription was for consultants, not for serious researchers. I now believe that this attitude is wrong, not only for the field of management but for society as a whol”
Institutional Logics in the Study of Organizations: The Social Construction of the Relationship between Corporate Social and Financial Performance (2011, background): “For one group of scholars, who are positivists or at least subscribe to an objectivist epistemology, this study raises the question, Which conclusions come closest to the truth? The numerical proximity of findings published in SIM journals to those in general management journals, in which economic a”
Relevance and Rigor: Executive Education as a Lever in Shaping Practice and Research (2007, background): “If true, this disjuncture hurts our students, our research, and perhaps most fundamentally, threatens the legitimacy of our schools and associated professional societies (Bazerman, 2005; Hambrick, 1994; Quelch, 2005).”
Disruptive Innovation: An Intellectual History and Directions for Future Research (2018, unknown): “Indeed, theories aim for prescriptive implications; they provide useful advice to individuals and organizations (Bazerman, 2005).”
Bridging Micro and Macro Domains: Workforce Differentiation and Strategic Human Resource Management (2011, background): “And in doing so, the field will increase the probability that it can conduct research that is both interesting and influential (Bazerman, 2005).”