Problem
Underuse of management research
Other Names:
Devalued management theoriesPoor quality research at business schools
Overemphasis on management practice
Nature:
Management research has a dual nature, drawing on and contributing to the experience and knowledge of managers and organizations. The problem is that management research is often regarded as irrelevant in the business world, where "experience" and trial and error practices are more commonly employed. Incidence:
In 1992, just 12 of the 104 business schools in the UK were rated centres of national or international excellence in research and, in 1994, only 2% of all research council grants were in business. Often managers either do not regard research topics as key issues or cannot understand the results. There is no research agenda for important unresolved macroeconomic issues (in the case of the UK, for example, into the underpowering of small and medium companies or the ability of inward investors to gain world-class performance from UK plants where indigenous owners have been unable). Broader Problems:
Underutilization of resourcesDeficient business leadership Narrower Problems:
Lack of reliance on intuition Related Problems:
Inappropriate use of innovative management techniques Reduces:
Proliferation of management theories Strategies:
Using multi-disciplinary approaches to common property regimesEmphasizing management practiceImproving quality research at business schoolsUtilizing management researchUsing management theoriesValuing management theoriesUsing innovative management techniques Subject(s):
Commerce → Business enterprisesResearch, Standards → Research
Research, Standards → Quality unification
Education → Schools
Management → Management
Science → Theoretical
Policy-making → Policy
Value Redistribution → Value redistribution
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST