Promoting Scholarship that Matters: The Uselessness of Useful Research and the Usefulness of Useless Research
挑战了关于“有用”管理学术重要性的传统观点，指出有用与无用取决于时间和权力因素，呼吁学者反思“有用”研究的本质及商学院应秉持的价值观。
Our ambition in this essay is to challenge received wisdoms about the importance of ‘useful’ management scholarship. Suggesting that usefulness and uselessness are contingent on issues of temporality and power, we advocate caution in assigning terms such as useful and relevant – they are inherently problematic, we argue, and should be viewed more as ideology than as empirical statements. We conclude by a call for reflexivity about what it is we are doing when we do ‘useful’ research, along with a greater concern for the values for which business schools stand.