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Promoting Scholarship that Matters: The Uselessness of Useful Research and the Usefulness of Useless Research (2011)
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Learmonth, M., Lockett, A., & Dowd, K. (2012). Promoting Scholarship that Matters: The Uselessness of Useful Research and the Usefulness of Useless Research. British Journal of Management, 23(1), 35-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8551.2011.00754.x

Our ambition in this essay is to challenge received wisdoms about the importance of ‘useful’ management scholarship. Suggesting that usefulness and uselessness are contingent on issues of temporality and power, we advocate caution in assigning terms... Read More about Promoting Scholarship that Matters: The Uselessness of Useful Research and the Usefulness of Useless Research.