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CROSSROADS—Increasing the Impact of Organization Science Research: Lessons from Economics

Rachel T. A. Croson, David C. Croson

Organization Science · 2025 · Volume 36 · Issue 5

DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2025.20953

Abstract

The field of organization science has many important insights to offer to practice, but often those insights go unnoticed. This article uses examples from a related discipline, economics, to suggest actions that the organization science field could consider in order to increase its impact. History: This manuscript is part of the five-piece crossroads collection “Organization Research as an Applied Science,” edited by Gokhan Ertug and Stephen Zhang. The companion pieces are Zhang and Ertug (2025) , Eesley and Gerber (2025) , Berry (2025) , and Yoeli and Rand (2025) .

Keywords

methodology, economics, business impact, policy impact, impact, relevance

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