Refocusing and Leveraging Management Research in the New Era of Austerity

摘要

In the new era of austerity, the business and management research needs to reduce the degree of waste of resources by ensuring that it really meets practitioner needs. The main issues discussed here are (i) the choice of research questions; (ii) the quality of research design and methods; (iii) the adequacy of publication practices; and (iv) the quality of research reports. A design science perspective suggests that quality needs to be viewed with a greater emphasis on usability with consequent implications for the content, process, context, and culture of research.