Barzelay, Michael 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 |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10967494.as... |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Sets: | Research centres and groups > Managerial Economics and Strategy Group Departments > Government Research centres and groups > LSE Public Policy Group Research centres and groups > Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/31919/ |
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