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CEOs' readership of business and management journals in Australia: Implications for research and teaching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2015

Nick Forster
Nick Forster*
Affiliation:
The Graduate School of Management, The University of Western Australia, Crawley WA, Australia
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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

journal readershipeducation competitionresearch impactsresearch relevance
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Management & Organization , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 24 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 2007

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