Bringing the Manager Back Into Management Scholarship
Herman Aguinis, David B. Audretsch, Caroline Flammer, Klaus E. Meyer, Mike W. Peng, David J. Teece
Journal of Management · 2022 · Volume 48 · Issue 7
DOI: 10.1177/01492063221082555
Abstract
The manager is often neglected in management scholarship. Although we are not the first to call for renewed attention to managers, given the rapidly evolving state of the environment in which firms operate, it seems an apropos moment to reflect on the importance of managers and remind ourselves to incorporate them into our ideas, relationships, and theories. We provide reasons for the current state of affairs and offer four actionable recommendations for making the manager a more central character in our research planning, execution, and dissemination: (1) listen to managers, (2) develop and test theories that include the manager explicitly, (3) conduct research at multiple levels of analysis and using multiple methods, and (4) find synergies across seemingly competing academic engagements.
Keywords
macro topics, micro topics, research methods, relevant research, useful research
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