Co-Creative Action Research Experiments—A Careful Method for Causal Inference and Societal Impact
The rigor-versus-relevance debate in the world of academia is, by now, an old-time classic that does not seem to go away so easily. The grassroots movement Responsible Research in Business and Management, for instance, is a very active and prominent advocate of the need to change current research pr...
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| author | Arjen van Witteloostuijn Nele Cannaerts Wim Coreynen Zainab Noor el Hejazi Joeri van Hugten Ellen Loots Hendrik Slabbinck Johanna Vanderstraeten |
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| description | The rigor-versus-relevance debate in the world of academia is, by now, an old-time classic that does not seem to go away so easily. The grassroots movement Responsible Research in Business and Management, for instance, is a very active and prominent advocate of the need to change current research practices in the management domain, broadly defined. One of its main critiques is that current research practices are not apt to address day-to-day management challenges, nor do they allow such management challenges to feed into academic research. In this paper, we address this issue, and present a research design, referred to as CARE, that is aimed at building a bridge from rigor to relevance, and vice versa. In so doing, we offer a template for conducting rigorous research with immediate impact, contributing to solving issues that businesses are struggling with through a design that facilitates causal inference. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4fa5e942d0984836a967d52501b4a8382023-11-20T15:31:15ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602020-09-0191017110.3390/socsci9100171Co-Creative Action Research Experiments—A Careful Method for Causal Inference and Societal ImpactArjen van Witteloostuijn0Nele Cannaerts1Wim Coreynen2Zainab Noor el Hejazi3Joeri van Hugten4Ellen Loots5Hendrik Slabbinck6Johanna Vanderstraeten7School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The NetherlandsErasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The NetherlandsAntwerp Management School, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, BelgiumDepartment of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, BelgiumSchool of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The NetherlandsArts and Culture Studies Department, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The NetherlandsDepartment of Marketing, Innovation and Organisation, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, BelgiumDepartment of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, BelgiumThe rigor-versus-relevance debate in the world of academia is, by now, an old-time classic that does not seem to go away so easily. The grassroots movement Responsible Research in Business and Management, for instance, is a very active and prominent advocate of the need to change current research practices in the management domain, broadly defined. One of its main critiques is that current research practices are not apt to address day-to-day management challenges, nor do they allow such management challenges to feed into academic research. In this paper, we address this issue, and present a research design, referred to as CARE, that is aimed at building a bridge from rigor to relevance, and vice versa. In so doing, we offer a template for conducting rigorous research with immediate impact, contributing to solving issues that businesses are struggling with through a design that facilitates causal inference.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/9/10/171rigorrelevanceresearch design |
| spellingShingle | Arjen van Witteloostuijn Nele Cannaerts Wim Coreynen Zainab Noor el Hejazi Joeri van Hugten Ellen Loots Hendrik Slabbinck Johanna Vanderstraeten Co-Creative Action Research Experiments—A Careful Method for Causal Inference and Societal Impact Social Sciences rigor relevance research design |
| title | Co-Creative Action Research Experiments—A Careful Method for Causal Inference and Societal Impact |
| title_full | Co-Creative Action Research Experiments—A Careful Method for Causal Inference and Societal Impact |
| title_fullStr | Co-Creative Action Research Experiments—A Careful Method for Causal Inference and Societal Impact |
| title_full_unstemmed | Co-Creative Action Research Experiments—A Careful Method for Causal Inference and Societal Impact |
| title_short | Co-Creative Action Research Experiments—A Careful Method for Causal Inference and Societal Impact |
| title_sort | co creative action research experiments a careful method for causal inference and societal impact |
| topic | rigor relevance research design |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/9/10/171 |
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