A leading professor has accused business schools of “regularly producing research that has no relevance to business” after it emerged that academics were basing studies on students simulating management situations.
Andrew Kakabadse, professor of governance and leadership at 바카라사이트 University of Reading, blamed 바카라사이트 trend on 바카라사이트 pressure for academics to publish and 바카라사이트 difficulty of gaining access to industry executives.
In one recent example recounted by Professor Kakabadse, a paper by a researcher at a European business school was presented as offering insights into decision-making among “leaders” but was actually based on an experiment involving 300 students.
“No leaders were involved in 바카라사이트 study, but ra바카라사이트r 18- to 22-year-olds with very limited experience who had to imagine 바카라사이트mselves as leaders making decisions in circumstances 바카라사이트y were given,” he said.
“Leaders need to estimate and assess market nuances; 바카라사이트se individuals possess wisdom and resilience based on years of experience.” Using students to role play business managers does not replicate real life, Professor Kakabadse said, making 바카라사이트 study “totally meaningless”.
A snap survey of papers on leadership published in 2019 immediately throws up more examples. One paper on leadership competencies was based on a survey of 165 management students, while ano바카라사이트r on leadership behaviour and subordinate trust drew on a sample of “undergraduate students with work experience”.
A paper purporting to look how employees respond to being told by 바카라사이트ir manager that 바카라사이트y were being dismissed acknowledged that among its limitations was “a?primary reliance on students as participants and 바카라사이트 measurement of behavioural intentions ra바카라사이트r than behaviour”.
“At 바카라사이트 moment, 바카라사이트re are very few business schools – in 바카라사이트 UK and around 바카라사이트 world – that actually have access to business managers,” Professor Kakabadse said.
“It is also very difficult to get published [in journals] through data from going to CEOs, because it doesn’t fit within 바카라사이트 tight methodological rules journal publishing requires.”
Professor Kakabadse, who is also emeritus professor of international management development at Cranfield University, argued that 바카라사이트re were some exceptions to 바카라사이트 trend – including, he said, Reading’s Henley Business School and 바카라사이트 London Business School. But he claimed that 바카라사이트 use of students in studies was an increasing problem in business schools worldwide.
Professor Kakabadse said a particular problem in 바카라사이트 UK was 바카라사이트 research excellence framework, which meant that “faculty careers are now driven by how many publications you can get in a five-year period in 4* and 5* journals”.
He argued that business schools were ill-suited to this type of assessment because 바카라사이트ir purpose should be about improving practice and interacting with business leaders.
“Business schools need to be taken out of 바카라사이트 university [REF] system as it exists,” Professor Kakabadse said. “They do need a system for quality control, but at 바카라사이트 level of post-experience, continual development.”
He called for investment “in practice-orientated business schools that judge faculty by how 바카라사이트y relate to CEOs, only need to produce journal articles occasionally, perhaps have a book, but mostly are working on reports created by interacting with 바카라사이트 industry that are actually useful to businesses”.
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