The Coming of Age for Qualitative Research: Embracing the Diversity of Qualitative Methods

“Most reviewers’ checklists of leading management journals list the criterion, “relevance for practice.” Authors comply with this criterion by pointing out what implications their results might have for practice. Evidence in the form of successful implementations of the results in practice is not required. Essentially, the authors are only supposed to point out what implications practitioners, as they socially construct them, can possibly draw from their results. If the reviewers’ construction of relevance is in accordance with the author’s, the criterion of relevance has been met . . .” (Kieser & Leiner, 2009: 522–523; italics in original).

Editor's Comments: Construct Clarity in Theories of Management and Organization

2012 Presidential Address—On Compassion In Scholarship: Why Should We Care?

The author, editor of the publication, looks at the developmental approach to peer review of academic articles, described as practices which focus not only on evaluating or identifying weaknesses in an article but on providing guidance to the original author on how the article can be improved and on how he or she can become a better scholar. She contrasts effective developmental reviewing with practices she considers ineffective including ghostwriting the article. Other topics include the role of developmental reviewing in expanding inclusion and diversity in an academic field and its benefits for long-time as well as young scholars.

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From the Editors Publishing Laboratory Research in<i>AMJ</i>: A Question of When, Not If

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From the Editor: Starting the Long March to Legitimacy

Editorial: Strategies for the Development of <i>International Journal of Management Reviews</i>

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