Learmonth, Mark, Lockett, Andy and Dowd, kevin (2012) Promoting scholarship that matters : the uselessness of useful research and the usefulness of useless research. British Journal of Management, Vol.23 (No.1). pp. 35-44. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8551.2011.00754.x/abstract

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Abstract

Our ambition in this essay is to challenge received wisdoms about the importance of ‘useful’ management scholarship. Suggesting that usefulness and uselessness are contingent on issues of temporality and power, we advocate caution in assigning terms such as useful and relevant – they are inherently problematic, we argue, and should be viewed more as ideology than as empirical statements. We conclude by a call for reflexivity about what it is we are doing when we do ‘useful’ research, along with a greater concern for the values for which business schools stand.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Centre for Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title:	British Journal of Management
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc
ISSN:	1045-3172
Official Date:	March 2012
Dates:	Date Event March 2012 Published
Volume:	Vol.23
Number:	No.1
Number of Pages:	10
Page Range:	pp. 35-44
DOI:	10.1111/j.1467-8551.2011.00754.x/abstract
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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