TY - JOUR
T1 - Co-Creative Action Research Experiments-A Careful Method for Causal Inference and Societal Impact
AU - van Witteloostuijn, Arjen
AU - Cannaerts, Nele
AU - Coreynen, Wim
AU - El Hejazi, Zainab Noor
AU - van Hugten, Joeri
AU - Loots, Ellen
AU - Slabbinck, Hendrik
AU - Vanderstraeten, Johanna
PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Relevance
KW - Research design
KW - Rigor
U2 - 10.3390/socsci9100171
DO - 10.3390/socsci9100171
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85092708028
SN - 2076-0760
VL - 9
SP - 1
EP - 28
JO - Social Sciences
JF - Social Sciences
IS - 10
M1 - 171
ER -