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An Exploratory Study of CEOs' Readership of Business and Management Journals
Implications for the future of research and teaching in Australian business schools
Nick Forster
The Graduate School of Management, The University of Western Australia, Crawley WA, Australia
Abstract
This article evaluates the impact of academic research in management and business on a sample of the leaders of Australia’s largest companies and public sector organizations.
The data from a questionnaire survey conducted in 2005 indicate that the impact of the collective research outputs of business/management academics on senior private and public sector leaders is almost non-existent. The implications of these findings for the conduct of research in business and management in the future are evaluated, as well as the emerging challenges we face from new non-university research and business/management education providers.
The broader consequences of a possible paradigm shift from a largely academic research/teaching orientation, towards a more explicitly professional and business/industry orientation are discussed towards the end of the article.
Keywords
academic research and publications, relevance of research to private and public sector leaders, theory/practice nexus, vocational teaching and applied research, competition from non-university research and education providers, paradigm shift
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