Barzelay, Michael 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-8947 and Thompson, Fred
(2009)
All aboard? evidence-based management and the future of management scholarship.
International Public Management Journal, 12 (3).
pp. 289-309.
ISSN 1096-7494
Abstract
The research-practice gap has emerged as an acute problem in management scholars' internal professional debates. Evidence-based management (EBM) has been proposed as a remedy, and it is gaining adherents. This article offers a critical examination of the EBM proposal and its justification. The proposal is found to be poorly conceived and justified. Therefore, a search for a different response to the same concerns is in order. The direction of search is to understand how existing scholarly practices offer advice to actors in managerial roles. While advice-giving scholarly practices are diverse and disconnected, a commonality is that they define design issues and offer value- and knowledge-based argumentation schemes for resolving them. An alternative to EBM can be envisioned: to strengthen the management field's network of design-oriented approaches to advice-giving. By employing the unorthodox style of a dialogue, this article shows how common ground about EBM and its alternatives can be established among management scholars who identify with conflicting intellectual traditions.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10967494.as... |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group |
| Divisions: | Government Public Policy Group Centre for Analysis of Risk & Regulation |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2011 14:50 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2025 07:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/31919 |
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