Societal Impact through Sustainable Scholarship (original) (raw)

Impactful sustainable scholarship requires collaborations with academics in other fields, policy makers and implementors, research should have wide relevance and applicability resulting in tangible measurable outcomes. While business academics want their work to have external value, many have found that societal impact did not result in tenure, awards or research funding. Stakeholders such as academic associations, journals and publications have begun to place greater stress on measures of societal impact; the impact of management research comprises 25% of the overall assessment criteria of the Research Excellence Framework, however there needs to be greater institutional credit and recognition for engagement with social impact issues.