Rigor and relevance in organization studies: Idea migration and academic journal evolution
This perspective paper addresses the issues of rigor and relevance in organizational studies in the context of idea migration and journal evolution. We argue that creeping parochialism can happen to any journal, which reflects an evolving narrowness within boundaries of academic subcommunities. Evidence suggests that ideas do migrate across academic subcommunities, although the underlying process is not well understood and the idea flow is not symmetrical. Two kinds of knowledge relevance are discussed-the value for end users such as managers in organizations, and the value for one's own or other academic subcommunities. We argue that the most important mission of Organization Science (OS) is to be a "source" journal for academic subcommunities in organization studies by attracting and publishing new theories and ideas that increase the varieties of knowledge about organizations. © 2008 INFORMS.
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Related Subject Headings
- Business & Management
- 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
- 3505 Human resources and industrial relations
- 1505 Marketing
- 1503 Business and Management