Speaker: Mikko Ketokivi (IE Business School)
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Time: Friday, May 17 at 10 am (EST) / 3 pm (London). This webinar is scheduled for 90 minutes, including Q&A.
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Registration: Please register here to receive a personalized Zoom link and a reminder prior to the event.
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In this session, we explore the notion of relevance by asking, "In whose eyes should I try to be relevant?" In particular, we examine the elusive idea of the practical relevance of academic research. When we use the term practically relevant, who exactly are we thinking about? This complements the first four sessions that focus primarily on how scholars can seek to establish relevance in scientific conversations and how to be academically relevant, that is, how to convince an academic audience that we have told them something they do not already know but should.
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Recommended reading:
- March, J. (2006). "Ideas as art." An interview of James March by Diane Coutu in Harvard Business Review 84(10), 83-89.
- Van de Ven, A. H., and P. E. Johnson (2006). "Knowledge for theory and practice." Academy of Management Review 31(4), 802-821.
- Holmström, Jan, Mikko Ketokivi, and A.-P. Hameri (2009). "Bridging practice and theory: A design science approach." Decision Sciences 40(1), 65-87.
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About the speaker:
Mikko Ketokivi is a Professor of Operations Management & Organization Design at IE University in Madrid. He is an organization economist interested in the design and governance of all kinds of organizations: small and large, public and private, for-profit and non-profit. He received his Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Minnesota in 2000. Over the past 20 years, he has taught organization economics, operations management, organization design, governance, and statistical research methods in business schools and technical universities in the US, France, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, and his native Finland. His book Efficient Governance: A Governance Approach (Oxford University Press, 2023) takes a practical look at organization design and governance questions.
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Ibrat Djabbarov
Imperial College London
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