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Type Book Chapter
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Problematizing the relation between management research and practice
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel
  • David Seidl
Editors
  • Cristina Neesham
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Booktitle Handbook of Philosophy of Management
ISBN 978-3-319-48352-8
Number 3
Place of Publication Cham
Publisher Springer
Page Range 1 - 21
Date 2021
Abstract Text The epistemological question of how management research can impact management practice is of central concern to management scholars. This question has been the subject of a long-standing discussion about the status of management studies as an applied science, the so-called relevance debate. In this chapter, we discuss the relation between management research and practice from the perspective of the “descriptive” stream of the practical relevance literature, analyzing the forms and conditions of practical relevance in epistemological terms. Drawing on Niklas Luhmann’s sociology of science, we start with a characterization of research as self-referential communication and discuss its most fundamental implication for the question of practical relevance: the impossibility of a linear transfer of research results to practice. Based on this, we discuss the ways in which management research can impact management practice and indicate a number of implications for the relation between research and practice.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1007/978-3-319-48352-8_57-1
Other Identification Number merlin-id:22048
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