Making academic research more relevant: A few suggestions

IIMB Management Review

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 156-169

  Panda, Abinash ^a   Gupta, Rajen K ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT KASHIPUR   (India)

^b MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Academic research; Bridging rigour relevance gap; Business schools in India; Criteria of relevance; Doctoral research; Ecosystem for research; Relevant research; Research culture; Rigour relevance debate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925303939     PISSN: 09703896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iimb.2014.07.008     Document Type: Article

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