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On the Folly of Rewarding Production While Hoping For Quality: Reconsidering How Peer Review Is Essential For Collective Impact

by Matthew A. Cronin (Guest Author) Peer review is an essential part of the “collective” in creating collective impact. It is what makes management science science. In a time when desirable findings and folk wisdom can be easily dressed up using pseudoscience, unsound tests, confirmatory hypothesis testing, or a host…Read More

Must Academic Research Be Relevant?

by Mark Zbaracki (Guest Author) The questions of impact raised here recalled Jim March’s longstanding claim: “I am not now, nor have I ever been, relevant” (March 2006, p. 83). In The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change, he and Mie Augier point out that our standard measures of relevance…Read More