Digital Reading Room 2.0 -- DDBA 802: Management Research in Practice

DDBA 802: Management Research in Practice Report a Broken Link

This course will look at the gap between research results and management in practice. Students will analyze their own area of research interest to determine what the latest scientific research is, and determine how the results are used (or not used) in the workplace today. Throughout the course, students will attempt to answer the question: how can we effectively translate research findings into practice?

Required Readings

Week 1

Reading 1: Huxham, C. (2009). Forces for and forces against: Vagaries of ─ and capacity building for ─ practice relevant research. Journal of Management Development, 28(8), 694-699.

Reading 2: Barley, S. R., Meyer, G. W., & Gash, D. C. (1988). Cultures of culture: Academics, practitioners and the pragmatics of normative control. Administrative Science Quarterly, 33(1), 24-60.

Week 2

Reading 3: Gulati, R. (2007) Tent poles, tribalism, and boundary spanning: The rigor-relevance debate in management research. Academy of Management Journal. 50(4). 775-782

Reading 4: Rasche, A., & Behnam, M. (2009). As if it were relevant: A systems theoretical perspective on the relation between science and practice. Journal of Management Inquiry,18(3), 243-255.

Reading 5: Nicolai, A., & Seidl, D. (2010).That’s relevant! Different forms of practical relevance in management science. Organization Studies, 31(9-10), 1257-1285.

Reading 6: Rajagopalan, N. (2019). Rigor, relevance, and resilience in management research. Journal of Management Inquiry, 1-4.

Reading 7: Scotland, J. (2012). Exploring the philosophical underpinnings of research: Relating ontology and epistemology to the methodology and methods of the scientific, interpretive, and critical research paradigms. English Language Teaching. 5(9) 9-16.

Week 3

Reading 8: Flyvbjerg, B. (2006) .1.10 making organization research matter: Power, values and phronesis. The Sage handbook of organization studies. 370-387.

Reading 9: Flyvbjerg, B., Landman, T., & Schram, S. (2016). Tension points: Learning to make social science matter. Forthcoming in Critical policy studies.

Reading 10: Cicmil, S. (2006). Understanding project management practice through interpretative and critical research perspectives. Project Management Journal, 37(2), 27-37.

Reading 11: Ngwenyama, O. & Klein, S. (2018) Phronesis, argumentation and puzzle solving in IS research: illustrating an approach to phronetic IS research practice.European Journal of Information Systems, 27(3), 347-366

Week 4

Reading 12: Pfeffer, J., & Sutton, R. I. (2006). Evidence-based management.Harvard Business Review, OnPoint article.84(1), 1-13.

Reading 13: Reay, T., Berta, W., & Kohn, M. (2009). What's the evidence on evidence-based management? Academy of Management Perspectives, 23(4), 5-18.

Reading 14: Briner, R. B., Denyer, D., & Rousseau, D. M. (2009). Evidence-based management: Concept cleanup time? Academy of Management Perspectives, 23(4), 19-32.

Reading 15: Morrell, K. (2008). The narrative of 'evidence-based' management: A polemic. Journal of Management Studies, 45(3), 613-635.

Reading 16: Rynes, S. L., & Bartunek, J. M. (2017). Evidence-based management: Foundations, development, controversies and future. The Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 4, 235-261.

Reading 17: Lawler III, E. E. (2007). Why HR practices are not evidence-based. Academy of Management Journal, 50(5),1033-1036.

Reading 18: Gill, C. (2018). Don't know, don't care: An exploration of evidence based knowledge and practice in human resource management. Human resource management review, 28(2), 103-115.

Week 5

Reading 19: Cloutier, C. (2016). How I write: An inquiry into the writing practices of academics. Journal of Management Inquiry, 25(1), 69-84.

Reading 20: Roulston, K. (2017). Tips for planning conference presentations. QualPage. https://qualpage.com/2017/10/19/tips-for-planning-conference-presentations/

Reading 21: Ickes, M. J., & Gambescia, S. F. (2011). Abstract art: How to write competitive conference and journal abstracts. Health promotion practice, 12(4), 493-496.

Week 6

Reading 22: Lewin, A. Y. (2014). The peer-review process: The good, the bad, the ugly, and the extraordinary. Management and Organization Review, 10(2),167-173

Reading 23: Hempel, P. S. (2014). The developmental reviewer. Management and Organization Review, 10(2), 175–181.

Reading 24: Sanders, W. G. (2009). What it means to be a developmental action editor. Academy of Management Journal, 52(4), 640-642.

Reading 25: Liu, L. A. (2014). Addressing reviewer comments as an integrative negotiation. Management and Organization Review, 10(2), 183–190.

Reading 26: Ketchen, D. J., Jr. (2008). Volunteer and shirking behaviours among the Daca. Academy of Management Journal, 51(2), 217-220.

Reading 27: Brewis, J. (2018). On interference, collegiality and co-authorship: Peer review of journal articles in management and organization studies. Organization, 25(1), 21-41.

Reading 28: Dobusch, L., & Heimstädt, M. (2019). Predatory publishing in management research: A call for open peer review. Management Learning, 50(5), 607-619.

Week 7

There are no readings this week.

There are no readings this week.

Week 8

Reading 29: Doh, J. P.(2009). Introduction: Bridging divides. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 8(2), 238-239.

Reading 30: Bridgman, T., Cummings, S., & Ballard, J. (2019). Who built Maslow’s pyramid? A history of the creation of management studies’ most famous symbol and its implications for management education. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 18(1), 81-98.

Reading 31: Pearce, J. L. (2007). We are who we teach: How teaching experienced managers fractures our scholarship. Journal of Management Inquiry, 16(2), 104-110.

Reading 32: Gruber, D. A. (2006).The craft of translation: An interview with Malcolm Gladwell. Journal of Management Inquiry, 15(4), 397-403.

Reading 33: Sutcliffe, K. M., & Wintermute, T. P. (2006). Gladwell as sensegiver. Journal of Management Inquiry, 15(4), 404-405.

Reading 34: Khurana, R., & Marquis, C.(2006). Diagnosing and dissolving our "translation gap". Journal of Management Inquiry, 15(4), 406-409.

Reading 35: Hoffman, A. J. (2006). Let's put Malcolm Gladwell out of business. Journal of Management Inquiry, 15(4), 410-411.

Reading 36: Gladwell, M. (2004, February). TED2004: Malcolm Gladwell on Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce [Video]. TED. https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_choice_happiness_and_spaghetti_sauce

Reading 37: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. (2016, August 5). Malcolm Gladwell: "I just want to explain things to people". [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owEDItHc7J8

Reading 38: Schnitzler, K., Davies, N., Ross, F., & Harris, R. (2016). Using Twitter™ to drive research impact: a discussion of strategies, opportunities and challenges. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 59, 15-26.

Reading 39: Ross-Hellauer, T., Banelytė, V., Gorogh, E., Luzi, D., Kraker, P., Pisacane, L., & Vignoli, M. (2019). 10 Simple Rules for innovative dissemination of research. SoArXiv Papers. 1-14.

Week 9

Reading 40: Hinings, C. R., & Greenwood, R. (1996).Chapter 23 Working together, In P. J. Frost & M. S. Taylor (Eds.), Rhythms of Academic Life (pp. 225-237). Sage Publications.

Reading 41: Hinings, B., & Greenwood, R. (2016). Working together revisited. In Research in Organizational Change and Development (pp. 1-17). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Reading 42: Gersick, C. J. G., Dutton, J. E., & Bartunek, J. M. (2000). Learning from academia: The importance of relationships in professional life. Academy of Management Journal, 43(6), 1026-1044.

Week 10

Reading 43: Harley, B. (2019). Confronting the crisis of confidence in management studies: Why senior scholars need to stop setting a bad example. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 18(2), 286-297.

Reading 44: Mckiernan, P., & Tsui, A. S. (2019). Responsible management research: A senior scholar legacy in doctoral education. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 18(2), 310–313.

Reading 45: Phillips, N. (2019). What is academic success anyway? A rejoinder to “confronting the crisis of confidence in management studies”. Academy of Management Learning & Education,18(2). 306-309.

Reading 46: Callaghan, C. W. (2019). Lakatos revisited: Innovation and ‘novel facts’ as a foundational logic for the social sciences in an era of ‘post-truth’and pseudoscience. Cogent Business & Management, 6(1), 1-18.