Editorial: Management Decision at the Academy of Management Conference 2005

Abstract

Purpose

Provides an summary of the workshop and discussions held by Management Decision at the 2005 Academy of Management annual conference.

Design/methodology/approach

Reports on the discussions that took place amongst the four work groups on the following subjects: qualitative versus quantitative methodologies, encouraging research from developing nations and practitioner authors, the value of history in management and how publishers can solve the main headaches for researchers.

Findings

Journal and institutional rankings are playing an increasingly important part in academic life. This has both positive and negative implications.

Originality/value

Provides information about issues that are important to the scholarly community and encourages authors, readers and anyone else involved in research to contribute their thoughts and opinions.

Citation

Torrance, A. and Peters, J. (2006), "Editorial: Management Decision at the Academy of Management Conference 2005", Management Decision, Vol. 44 No. 1, pp. 5-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/00251740610641427