Searching for Significance: The Case for Reimagining Management Research

Abstract

• Novelty—The knowledge should be non-incremental, frame-breaking, and more than a turgid and unnecessarily complex restatement of what a smart practitioner would already know or assume. • Salience—The knowledge should speak to some timely and essential problem facing a significant number of practitioners. • Usability—The knowledge should be practically useful, with implications for practice are clearly enumerated.