Meet-the-Editor session, Organization Management and Human Resources Research Group

On 16 November 2023, ESSCA’s Organization Management and Human Resources Research Group hosted a “Meet the editors” session with Prof. Mark HEALEY, Head of Innovation, Management and Policy Division at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, and Associate Editor at the Journal of Management Studies.

The topic was: Changing the Scholarly Conversation: What it Means, Why it Matters, and How to Approach it in Management Research Academics often assess contributions to management research in terms of their influence on the scholarly conversation. However, precisely what it means and what it takes to change a scholarly conversation is not entirely clear, especially in micro research in the management field where contributions are often framed in incremental terms.

This talk draws on a recent editorial in the Journal of Management Studies by Healey, Leroy, Post and Potocnik (2023) that examines what distinguishes papers that significantly change the scholarly conversation on a topic and analyses the functions of such conversation-changing papers, focussing on research in the micro domain.

Based on an inductive analysis of exemplar conversation-changing micro papers, the authors propose a typology that identifies how scholars substantially alter an existing conversation or stimulate a new conversation. For each type of conversation-changing contribution, they identify its attributes and functions and discuss exemplars.

Prof. Mark Healey concluded his talk with guidance and tips for authors, reviewers, and editors seeking to develop papers that reshape scholarly conversations.

Healey, M. P., Leroy, H., Post, C., & Potočnik, K. (2023). Changing the scholarly conversation: What it means, why it matters, and how to approach it in micro research. Journal of Management Studies,
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joms.12924

Prof. Mark Healey : https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/mark.healey