2019/10/10 by Anne S. Tsui · 2 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Decision Sciences · #Management and Organizational Studies #Ethics in Business and Education #Management Theory and Practice
paper · doi:10.5465/amd.2019.0244
openalex publication_date 2019/10/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Management research has been criticized for the gap between research and practice (the relevance issue) since the early 1990s. In recent years, there has been an equally important reckoning that business research suffers from low credibility and low replicability (the rigor issue). Interestingly, the literature has treated rigor and relevance as two independent issues. This Guidepost discusses the necessary interdependence of rigor and relevance, introduces the responsible research for business and management movement that strives for both rigor (credibility of evidence) and relevance (usefulness of the knowledge), and illustrates how the seven principles of responsible research can guide studies of responsible leadership in the global context of the twenty-first century. I end the Guidepost by calling on management researchers to demonstrate responsible leadership by engaging in responsible research to produce both credible and useful knowledge and to contribute to the common good.