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In this volume, twelve prominent management scholars provide retrospective accounts of their success. Through these stories, early-stage and mid-career scholars will gain insight on how to develop influential research and remain highly productive. These insights include how to develop sharp observations of organizational phenomena, how to ask important research questions, and how to transform these questions into potentially fruitful realms of research. The book also offers resources for developing essential collaborative relationships, managing the peer review and publication process, and disseminating findings.
List of contents
- List of Contributors
- Opening Remarks: What is Influential Management Research and Why is it Important?
- Xiao-Ping Chen and Kevin H. Steensma
- Chapter 1: Why the Heck Did That Happen?: The Alchemy of Theory-Building
- Blake E. Ashforth
- Chapter 2: Cultural Intelligence: Two Bowls Singing
- Soon Ang
- Chapter 3: Making Sense of a Seemingly Random Walk: A Path Toward Interdisciplinary Scholarship, and How to Avoid the Pitfalls Along the Way
- James D. Westphal
- Chapter 4: What I Have Learned in My Journey as a Scholar
- Sigal Goland Barsade
- Chapter 5: From One Empirical Paper to One Hundred and Fifty: Performance Feedback Research
- Henrich R. Greve
- Chapter 6: Embedded Entrepreneurship
- Olav Sorenson
- Chapter 7: My Journey with Justice: Brainstorming About Scholarly Influence and Longevity
- Jason A. Colquitt
- Chapter 8: Careers as Stochastic Excursions: A Personal Confession
- Hayagreeva Rao
- Chapter 9: Building a Systematic Program of Research into Employee Creativity and Innovation
- Jing Zhou
- Chapter 10: Fostering Enterprise: The Journey as the Destination
- Rajshree Agarwal
- Chapter 11: Tales from a Late Bloomer: Ten Principles for Influential Scholarship
- Sandra L. Robinson
- Chapter 12: Messages to My Younger Self
- Anita M. McGahan
- Toward a Process Model for Influential Scholarship: A Synopsis and Integration of Our Contributors' Stories
- Kevin Steensma and Xiao-Ping Chen
About the author
Xiao-Ping Chen is Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair Professor of Management in the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington.
Kevin H. Steensma is Michael G. Foster Endowed Professor of Management in the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington.
Summary
Retrospective accounts of the careers of twelve prominent management scholars
The field of academic management is more competitive than ever before. Moreover, scholars have to deal with rapid advances in technology and an increasingly globalized discipline. But, for those who are prepared, there are also great opportunities to generate new and noteworthy scholarship. In this book, Xiao-Ping Chen and Kevin H. Steensma bring together the wisdom of some of the most prominent voices in the field to show how to develop influential research and succeed in the world of management studies.
In A Journey toward Influential Scholarship, twelve prominent management scholars provide retrospective accounts of their professional journeys. These specialists share how they originated, developed, and published their research, as well as the mistakes they made along the way. Their stories offer insights to new scholars, including how to properly observe organizational phenomena, how to ask important research questions, and how to transform these questions into potentially fruitful areas of research. The book also provides useful strategies for developing collaborative relationships, managing the peer review and publication process, and disseminating findings. In combination, the essays provide scholars with an array of pathways for turning research into influential scholarship. More broadly, this is an essential guide for how to pursue a successful career in the field of management.
