Managerial Perceptions and the Essence of the Managerial World: What is an Interloper Business Executive to Make of the Academic‐Researcher Perceptions of Managers?
批评了Mezias和Starbuck的研究只关注管理者感知不准确的程度，而忽略了这些不准确的来源和后果，并建议学术研究者应在进行实证研究前深入了解管理世界，以提升管理研究的实用性。
I argue that the Mezias and Starbuck (2003) research programme misses being managerially relevant by investigating the extent of perceptual inaccuracies among managers rather than the more valuable question of from where these inaccuracies arise and what their consequences are in practice. As a sometime business executive, it seems to me that the closer one gets to an actual managerial position, the less significant some of the explanations and recommendations in the academic research literature appear as regards managerial concerns. To ensure relevance in the managerial research enterprise, I suggest that academics should make concrete efforts to become reasonably conversant with the managerial world before undertaking any empirical research. I also make the point that the discussion of the Mode 2 approach to knowledge production in the management field needs to move away from the current focus on straightforwardly ‘bridging the relevance gap’ and toward finding ways to improve the competence of Mode 2 researchers by insisting on a minimum understanding of the managerial world before embarking on management research.