User Friendly Research

Managers sometimes say that the day-to-day challenges they face are unrelated to the questions studied in management research. Some have suggested that this accurs because management scholars often choose their research topics without being aware of the needs and problems of practicing managers.

Even when academics study questions, that are useful to practioners, managers say that it is difficult for them to find, comprehend, and act on articles in scholarly management journals. Therefore there is a need of interpetation of research findings using a language with more clarity and to the point. This is important so that many important research findings that could be helpful to managers not to go unutilized. Hence, there is an effort to find the extent of this problem and solicit ideas on how to make academic research more acessible and useful to practicing managers.

Research-Practice Gap, The Academy of Mgt Journal, Vol 50, No2, Apr 07