A journey toward influential scholarship : insights from leading management scholars / edited by Xiao-Ping Chen and Kevin H. Steensma.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chen, Xiao-Ping, editor.

Steensma, Kevin H., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Research.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

In this volume, twelve prominent management scholars provide retrospective accounts of their success. Through these stories, early-stage and mid-career scholars will gain insight on how to develop influential research and remain highly productive. These insights include how to develop sharp observations of organizational phenomena, how to ask important research questions, and how to transform these questions into potentially fruitful realms of research. The book also offers resources for developing essential collaborative relationships, managing the peer review and publication process, and disseminating findings.

Contents:

cover

A Journey toward Influential Scholarship

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Introduction: What Is Influential Management Research and Why Is It Important?

1. Why the Heck Did That Happen?: The Alchemy of Theory-​Building

2. Cultural Intelligence: Two Bowls Singing

3. Making Sense of a Seemingly Random Walk: A Path toward Interdisciplinary Scholarship, and How to Avoid the Pitfalls along the Way

4. What I Have Learned . . . in My Journey as a Scholar

5. From One Empirical Study to 150: Performance Feedback Research

6. Embedded Entrepreneurship

7. My Journey with Justice: Brainstorming about Scholarly Influence and Longevity

8. Careers as Stochastic Excursions: A Personal Confession

9. Building a Systematic Program of Research into Employee Creativity and Innovation

10. Fostering Enterprise: The Journey as the Destination

11. Tales from a Late Bloomer: Ten Principles for Influential Scholarship

12. Messages to My Younger Self

Concluding Remarks: Toward a Process Model for Influential Scholarship: A Synopsis and Integration of Our Contributors' Stories

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-19-007075-7

0-19-007074-9

OCLC:

1273974879