@article{2021:tsui:usefulness,
title = {Usefulness, Credibility and Scientific Norms: Reflections on Our Third Responsibility},
year = {2021},
note = {This essay takes a brief stock of the progress in the transformation
of business research toward tackling the grand challenges and solving
many wicked problems facing business and society today. Efforts are
underway in journals, schools, academic associations and accreditation
agencies to encourage attention on the societal impact of faculty
research in business schools. This transformation is long overdue, and
it reflects the will of the scientific community to self-correct the
dual crises of research credibility and research-practice gap that
dominated the business research ecosystem in the past three decades.
Reflecting on the journey of this self-correction as a co-founder of
the Responsible Research in Business and Management network, I draw on
Robert Merton’s normative structure of science and the idea of
scientific freedom and scientific responsibility, to suggest five
scientific norms for the business and management research community as
part of our third responsibility, in addition to our responsibilities
for usefulness and credibility. Accepting this third responsibility
will ensure that going forward, we will continuously and consistently
deliver on our two major responsibilities of producing both credible
and useful knowledge for better business practices and a better world.},
journal = {Die Unternehmung},
pages = {175--187},
author = {Tsui, Anne S.},
volume = {75},
number = {2}
}