Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

4-2024

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for management scholars to address large-scale and complex societal problems and strive for greater practical and policy impact. A brief overview of the most-cited work on COVID-19 reveals that, compared with their counterparts in other disciplines, leading management journals and professional associations lagged in providing a platform for high-impact research on COVID-19. To help management research play a more active role in responding to similar global challenges in the future, we propose an integrative framework that emphasizes a phenomenon’s impact, the conditions that the phenomenon creates at multiple levels, and the responses of actors to such conditions, as well as the dynamic relationships and interactions among these actors. By shifting attention to phenomena and their overall impact, this framework can help scholars better position their work to address large-scale and complex problems and also to assess research for its contribution to generate impact beyond academia.

Keywords

COVID-19, grand challenges, impact, integrative framework, phenomenon-based research

Discipline

Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods | Public Health | Strategic Management Policy

Research Areas

Strategy and Organisation

Publication

Business and Society

Volume

63

Issue

4

First Page

715

Last Page

1062

ISSN

0007-6503

Identifier

10.1177/00076503241237047

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503241237047

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