Re‐aligning the Stakeholders in Management Research: Lessons from Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology
Re‐aligning the Stakeholders in Management Research: Lessons from Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology
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重新调整管理研究中的利益相关者：工业、工作和组织心理学的经验教训
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2001
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N. Anderson
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G. Hodgkinson;P. Herriot;N. Anderson
Starkey和Madan（2001）报告的出版对一系列应用学科正在进行的关于社会研究的性质和目的的辩论做出了及时和宝贵的贡献。我们认为，呼吁利益攸关方协调一致，最终产生新的知识，这种知识一方面在理论上和方法上都是严格的，另一方面也具有社会意义，这是非常值得欢迎的。然而，Starkey和Madan主张的模式2办法将不能满足这些基本要求。借鉴最近的分析性质，原因和后果的学术从业者划分在工业，工作和组织心理学的子领域，我们提供了一个替代的，四重分类的各种管理知识。在我们的替代框架内，严谨性低但相关性高的研究（大规模采用模式2方法的可能后果）被称为“大众科学”。相比之下，“迂腐科学”的严谨性高，但相关性低，而“幼稚科学”则不符合这两个要求。只有“实用科学”才能满足严格性和相关性的双重要求。虽然这是非常可取的，实用科学应该占主导地位的管理领域，有相当大的障碍，阻碍其广泛采用，在目前的时间，尤其是有限的研究人员谁拥有必要的社会政治和方法的能力。因此，当务之急是如何最好地弥补这一能力差距，这是利益攸关方重新调整的一个基本先决条件。
The publication of the Starkey and Madan (2001) report represents a timely and valuable contribution to an ongoing debate across a range of applied disciplines, concerning the nature and purpose of social research. The call for stakeholder alignment, culminating in the production of new knowledge that is both theoretically and methodologically rigorous on the one hand, and socially relevant on the other, is, in our view, to be greatly welcomed. However, the Mode 2 approach advocated by Starkey and Madan will not satisfy these fundamental requirements. Drawing on recent analyses of the nature, causes and consequences of the academic-practitioner divide in the subfield of industrial, work and organizational psychology, we offer an alternative, four-fold taxonomy of the varieties of managerial knowledge. Within our alternative framework, research that is low on rigour but high on relevance (a likely consequence of the wholesale adoption of a Mode 2 approach) is characterized as ‘Popularist Science’. ‘Pedantic Science’, by contrast, is high on rigour but low on relevance, while ‘Puerile Science’ meets neither requirement. Only ‘Pragmatic Science’ will meet the twin imperatives of rigour and relevance. Whilst it is highly desirable that Pragmatic Science should dominate the management field, there are considerable barriers that impede its widespread adoption at the present time, not least the limited availability of researchers who possess the requisite sociopolitical and methodological competencies. The immediate imperative that has to be addressed, therefore, is the question of how best to close this competency gap, a fundamental precondition of stakeholder realignment.