Bridging the Rigour–Relevance Gap in Management Research: It's Already Happening!
针对Kieser和Leiner认为管理研究中严谨性与相关性鸿沟不可弥合的观点，本文通过多个管理研究领域的实例，展示了研究者与从业者合作能够产出既学术严谨又社会有用的知识。
abstract Kieser and Leiner (2009 ) maintain that the rigour–relevance gap in management research is fundamentally unbridgeable because researchers and the researched inhabit separate social systems. They argue that it is impossible to assess the relevance of research outputs within the system of science and that neither action research nor related approaches to collaborative research can succeed in producing research that is rigorous as well as relevant. In reply, we show how their analysis is inconsistent with available evidence. Drawing on a diversity of management research domains, we provide counter‐illustrations of work where researchers, in a number of cases in collaboration with practitioners, have generated knowledge that is both socially useful and academically rigorous.