Perspective—Rigor and Relevance in Organization Studies: Idea Migration and Academic Journal Evolution
这篇视角论文探讨了组织研究中严谨性与相关性的问题，认为思想在学术子社区间迁移，但过程不明且流动不对称，并指出《组织科学》应成为新理论和新思想的来源期刊。
This perspective paper addresses the issues of rigor and relevance in organizational studies in the context of idea migration and journal evolution. We argue that creeping parochialism can happen to any journal, which reflects an evolving narrowness within boundaries of academic subcommunities. Evidence suggests that ideas do migrate across academic subcommunities, although the underlying process is not well understood and the idea flow is not symmetrical. Two kinds of knowledge relevance are discussed—the value for end users such as managers in organizations, and the value for one's own or other academic subcommunities. We argue that the most important mission of Organization Science (OS) is to be a “source” journal for academic subcommunities in organization studies by attracting and publishing new theories and ideas that increase the varieties of knowledge about organizations.