European Business Review: Volume 30 Issue 2

Guest editorial

Jan Stentoft, Per Vagn Freytag

Questionable research practices in academia: antecedents and consequences

David B. Grant, Gyöngyi Kovács, Karen Spens

The purpose of this paper is to discuss questionable research practices (QRPs) in business research, particularly in the logistics and supply chain management discipline, in light…

Bridging the relevance-ranking chasm: mission impossible?

Judy Zolkiewski

This paper aims to debate the challenges related to balancing relevance and ranking in management research.

To what is the review process relevant?: What’s right and what’s wrong with peer review for academic business journals

Barry J. Babin, Julie Guidry Moulard

The purpose of this paper is to consider various strengths and weaknesses of the academic review process with an emphasis on the effect the process has on the relevance of…

The fallacy of impact without relevance – reclaiming relevance and rigor

Ram Narasimhan

The purpose of this paper is to underscore the fundamental importance of relevance to an applied field such as supply chain management (SCM). It is argued that simultaneity of…

Knowledge exchange and management research: barriers and potentials

Torben Bager

The growing involvement of management researchers in knowledge exchange activities and collaborative research does not seem to be reflected in a growing academic output. The…

Rigor, relevance, and the knowledge “market”

Joanne Hamet, Sylvie Michel

The “relevance literature” often moans that the publications of top-ranked academic journals are hardly relevant to managers, while actionable research struggles to get published…

Rigorous and Relevant – introducing a critical discourse analysis to the relevance debate

Izabelle Bäckström, Kajsa Ahlgren

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the notion of “relevance” is produced, distributed and consumed in the field of management research by applying a critical discourse…