2006 AMJ Special Forum Survey
To follow up on the theme of the last annual meeting of the Academy of
Management (AOM) and on last December's AMJ From-the-Editors (FTE) which
held a collection of essays regarding how to make management scholarship
more salient to business practitioners and even possibly to policy-makers,
we are writing to ask you to complete a 15-20 minute weblinked survey. The
survey can be accessed at: http://tinyurl.com/ynadwl
Your participation promises to help us better understand: (1) if you think
there is a gap between management scholars and practitioners and, if so,
(2) how to make scholarly research in academic journals more applicable and
useful for practicing managers. YOUR OPINION IS IMPORTANT since a summary
of our findings will be published in an upcoming From-the-Editors (FTE)
section of the Academy of Management Journal; potentially, the aggregated
summary of our findings may guide future actions on the part of managers,
academic faculty members, University officials, and even AOM members in
your own Division or Interest Group since our survey seems likely to
provoke new ways for all of these "stakeholders" to bridge our interest in
making management knowledge more salient to those who can benefit from it.
We are hoping that our survey-results will be as representative as possible
(of academics' as well as practicing managers' opinions); YOUR own voice
will help to ensure this. Of course, confidentiality and anonymity are
guaranteed.
Thanks, in advance, for helping us identify HOW (if necessary) to improve
the "gap" often described as existing between management scholars and
management practitioners. We appreciate your doing this AND, please,
encouraging your departmental colleagues (to whom you can forward this
note) to do the same. The more voices we hear on this issue, the more
helpful our survey-findings will be to you, to your schools, and to the
field of management science. Thanks, please, for your help!
Sincerely,
Debra L. Shapiro
Associate Editor, AMJ
University of Maryland
Bradley L. Kirkman
Associate Editor, AMJ
Texas A&M University
Hugh G. Courtney
University of Maryland