Editorial notes in leading management journals have urged scholars to address Grand
Challenges (GC) as an opportunity for producing knowledge that matters for society. This …

Although experiments are the gold standard for establishing causality, several threats can
undermine the internal validity of experimental findings. In this article, we first discuss these …

In this position paper, I argue that the main purpose of research is to discover and report on
phenomena in a truthful manner. Once uncovered, these phenomena can have important …

In this essay we challenge standard approaches to the academic–practitioner gap that
essentially pit sides against each other, treating them as dichotomous. Instead, we identify …

In response to critiques of strategy tools as unhelpful or potentially dangerous for
organizations, we suggest casting a sociological eye on how tools are actually mobilized by …

Unfortunately, most researchers in leadership studies (and management in general) ignore
one key design and estimation problem rendering parameter estimates uninterpretable …

Next to rigor and relevance, this paper addresses speed as a third challenge of joint
academic practitioner inquiries. Practitioners seek fast and actionable knowledge. However …

How and to what extent practitioners use the scientific results of management studies is of
great concern to management scholars and has given rise to a considerable body of …

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”—
Albert Einstein Has university scholarship gone astray? Do our academic assessment …

Reflecting on common empirical concerns in quantitative entrepreneurship research, recent
calls for improved rigor and reproducibility in social science research, and recent …