From Responsible Scholarship to Responsible Scholar

Abstract

Joining the dialogue on the role of management scholars, we propose to cultivate all-round scholars to fulfill the needs of our stakeholders; only by becoming responsible scholars can we achieve responsible scholarship.

Navigating Academia’s Stressful Waters: Discussing the Power of Horizontal Linkages for Early-Career Researchers

“…Early career researchers (ECRs), encompassing PhD candidates, postdoctoral fellows, and assistant professors, face unprecedented pressures in a highly competitive industry. In a work environment dominated by academic publications (Lu et al, 2022) and rankings, ECRs find themselves in an output-driven market that calls for “quantified scholars” (Crane & Glozer, 2022). In this environment, ECRs are pressured to engage in vertical relationships (e.g., with seniors such as their PhD supervisors) to gain a foothold in the “publication game.”…”

From the Editors: Introducing Impact

“…These 10 Commentaries range from contributions discussing the experience of the Financial Times (FT) with business school rankings and impact (Jack, 2022) to questioning the very notion of rankings as an impediment to performance (Brankovic, 2022) or exploring the increasing individualized quantification of scholarly impact and dwelling on the inequalities they exacerbate (Crane & Glozer, 2022) and the perils of quantifying and measuring performance (van der Kolk, 2022). The other six Commentaries in this series shed light on a few ways to achieve impact, including creating personal impact development plans (Aguinis & Gabriel, 2022), working with managers to perform research (Bansal & Sharma, 2022), enhancing involvement with research stakeholders (Spence & du Gay, 2022), ensuring context-relevance to provide a valid foundation for effective action and working with stakeholders to disseminate research (D’Cruz et al, 2022), writing in alternative publication formats such as essays (Lindebaum, 2022), and developing as well-rounded scholars, with a balanced portfolio of research, education, and service for the benefit of society (Lu et al, 2022).…”