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Examples of Scholarly Research that has had a Significant Impact on Practice

The list below is a sample of research by business school faculty that has had a significant impact on a particular area of practice.  It is not intended to be all-inclusive. 

Topic Author Further Reading
Sampling problems in auditing W. Kinney A decision-theory approach to the sampling problem in auditing, Journal of Accounting Research, 1975
Valuing intangible assets financial statements B. Lev Intangibles: Management, Measurement and Reporting, 2001
Statistical methods for simulation G. Fishman Concept and Method in Discrete Event Digital Simulation, 1973

Information in supply chain management

H. Lee, V. Padmanabhan, S.Wang Information Distortion in Supply Chain:  The Bullwhip Effect, Management Science, 1997
Value of information technology M. Hammer and G. Mangurian The Changing Values of Communications Technology, Sloan Management Review, 1987

Path-Goal Theory of Leadership

R. House A Path-Goal Theory of Leader Effectiveness, Administrative Science Leadership Review, 1971
Organizational decision making J. March, M. Cohen, J. Olsen

A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1972

Measuring service quality

B. Parasuraman, L. Berry,V. Zeithaml

A Conceptual Model of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future Research, Journal of Marketing, 1985

Managing technology C. Christensen

Exploring the Limits of the Technology S-Curve, Part 1 and Part 2, Production and Operations Management Journal, 1992

Single-loop and double-loop learning

C. Argyris, D. Schön Organizational Learning, 1978
Knowledge creation I. Nonaka The Knowledge Creating Company, Harvard Business Review, 1991

Learning organization

P. Senge The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, 1990
Stock option back-dating E. Lei On the Timing of CEO Stock Option Awards. Management Science, 2005
Goal setting G. Latham, E. Locke Goal Setting - A Motivational Technique that Works. Organizational Dynamics, 1979
Motivation F. Herzberg One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? Harvard Business Review, 1968

Rewards

S. Kerr On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B. Academy of Management Journal, 1975
Poverty and business C. Prahalad, A. Hammond Serving the World's Poor, Profitably. Harvard Business Review, 2002
Strategy M. Porter Competitive Advantage, 1985
Transformational Leadership B. Bass Two Decades of Research and Development in Transformational Leadership, European Journal of Work & Organizational Psychology, 1999
Costs of Downsizing W. Cascio Downsizing: What Do We Know? What Have We Learned? Academy of Management Executive, 1993
Turnover T. Mitchell, B. Holtom, T. Lee

Why People Stay: Using Job Embeddedness To Predict Voluntary Turnover. Academy of Management Journal, 2001

Please send additional suggestions to Juliane@aacsb.edu.