Worth a read and conversation at every #editorialboard meeting in the next year.
Business #research needs to become more accessible to non-academics - if we are to fulfill our mission of being fulcrums for positive change in the world.
One additional prescription here - change the #incentivesystem.
Top journals should take risks and create new formats and content categories.
A few examples from Information Systems discipline. MIS Quarterly created "curations" to summarize and suggest new research directions. Journal of Association for Information Systems created the "promise category" to speed up the publication of high-quality papers.
These formats encourage quick cycle times to publication. #MISQ Curations uses infographics to visualize research (https://lnkd.in/ggPNwki4). #JAIS promises publication to papers that survive the first round of review (https://lnkd.in/g8jPj2DR).
Arun Rai and Dorothy Leidner showed leadership, when they recognized the need to change formats and speed up review cycles.
Now it is up to the academic community to follow their lead & make these formats successful.
#Deans need to reward faculty who take a risk and use them. #Editors need to keep their word and move work quickly to market. #SeniorFaculty must recognize #youngfaculty, with credit towards #tenure, who publish in top journals in experimental formats.
We can effect positive change & communicate our message to the world if the community coalesces and demands it!
We can build a better academe, it just takes leaders with the will to make it happen.
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