18700: Engaged Management Scholarship – How to Enhance the Relevance of Business Schools

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

10:15 - 11:45 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall C- C3-m13

Session Type: Symposium (panel)
Orientation: Teaching,Practice,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/XKyW84

Session Chair(s)

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Rob Van Tulder

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Participant(s)

EF

Elisabeth Fröhlich

-, Slovenia
MS

Michaela Schippers

Erasmus U. Rotterdam, Netherlands
FT

Ferran Torres

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus U., Netherlands
EW

Elizabeth Wang

University of Leeds
NS

Noemi Sinkovics

Newcastle University, United Kingdom
RS

Rudolf R. Sinkovics

Durham University, United Kingdom
RS

Raymond Saner

University of Basel
DH

David Horan

Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
LS

Lichia Saner-Yiu

-, Switzerland

By focussing exclusively on a neutral position towards grand challenges, management scholars are increasingly reproached by business leaders and policy makers to lose track of societal relevance which considerably lowers the legitimacy of management disciplines. This symposium panel considers the extent to which these challenges require a new type of scholarship. We will in particular explore what ‘engaged scholarship’ in theory and practice entails and what type of enabling conditions have to be created in order to gain greater societal relevance.