I wonder whether other fields of study also come up with such discussion among academic researchers or this is controversial only on ENT area?
As many stated that ENT is a new field, despite the 20 yrs of study! - But not as solid as Organizational Studies or Strategic Studies, for example. Why is it still considered a new area? Isn't it because ENT requires a line of ideas and theories definition that doesn't fit to current academic paradigms? Isn't it why we had a discussion here in this group last year about what ENT is? Isn't it strange that researchers had not found a consensus about concept yet?
Is it possible that such academic discussion about journals and real contribution to the field just raise again and again because there is a paradox specifically in ENT studies between the current publications criteria and what can effectively be considered a contribution in a area that has little adherence to complex theories and such 'scientific basis'?
I am a newcomer on academic area. Most of my career is based on corporate experience. I am studying ENT since 2000 and currently under the process to acquire my doctoral degree. The more I know how the academic world works, the more I feel very complicated to get inserted in this world and the more I feel stimulated in not generating academic research and knowledge but to translate the complexity of the reseach outcomes to a language entrepreneurs can understand.
Sometimes I find coleagues with briliant ideas but they just don't publish because the article is rejected for not being in the 'proper academic language', sometimes this means just pure cosmetics.
the question is: Don't ENT Journals require specific new rules and criteria to accomodate both researchers and entrepreneurs needs?
Marcos Hashimoto
Entrepreneurial Center Coordinator
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De: Entrepreneurship Division Listserv em nome de Norris Krueger
Enviada: qui 15/3/2007 12:37
Para: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Assunto: Re: [ENTREP] JBV as a top journal
Per - "and even good looks..."
Damn -- NONE of us would get promoted! (Norris is sobbing in the corner now...) LOL!
Not to go Berkeley on everyone, but if I write an incredible article in a journal that nobody reads - was it an incredible article? I'd like to think so, but have I been useful? (I like Per raising that point - useful is, well, useful .. "interesting" may not be...)
Entrepreneurial Samidzdat?
I have some faith that the hidden gems will be found. Per & I have even had this discussion - his most-cited intentions paper isn't even published, likewise I have a fam biz paper... Maybe the best example is Alex DeNoble & Sandy Ehrlich's Babson paper that mapped out the self-efficacy scale many of us use to this day - never got published. But because it was useful...
Maybe we need a collection of "hidden gems"!?Maybe we need a mechanism for surfacing those great contributions from the plethora of journals out there - we cannot read even a small fraction of them, so we go looking for useful theory, methods, etc. in the most likely spots (the usual suspects being the top journals -they still offer the best odds of reading something useful).
Can we design a mechanism that sifts the wheat from the chaff? (If once every 2 years there's a truly great article in the Intl J of Entrepreneurship & Bicycle Repair, how do we economically find it without having to read all the others?)
Here's a small idea: My "Research" folder on my pc is littered with good stuff that my friends send me - some are from journals I'd never heard of -some aren't even "entrepreneurship"! I try to return the favor -- word-of-mouth can be powerful.
So, my one suggestion here is: If you see an obscure article that fits a friend's interest, send it to them! Maybe Alex's paper didn't get published, but many who saw it or saw the scale... passed it along.
Andy's comment, "The academy is about generation and dissemination of knowledge. How it gets out there should not be at the whim of an editor or marketer": So pass along the good stuff. [The editors can and should screen out the crap. And your prior probabilities of reading good work are highest in the top journalsbut let's go beyond that... ]
Send along the good stuff to those who'd enjoy it. I'd rewrite Andy to say - let's me better marketers ourselves! In the marketing world, word-of-mouth is beating the snot out of media advertising... The new mantra is "BYOM" - Be Your Own Media.
It's fun, we learn and grow, and it's.... useful!
(And I now will be deluged with articles on entrepreneurial cognition... LOL)
On 3/15/07, Per Davidsson <per.davidsson@qut.edu.au> wrote: Hi all,
As much as I agree with many of the critical arguments (it is contribution that counts / it is circulation that counts / not all papers in 'A' journals are used and cited much ... 'reducing Tenure and Promotion committees to bean counters'...) it always amazes/amuses me that when people whinge about things like this that they don't seem to be asking:
- Is a LACK OF system any better? (how much arbitrariness and bias would you have then? Is there any risk that very old laurels, self-promotion skills and even good looks would be over rated? Availability heuristic? Escalation of commitment?)
- Is the CURRENT/OTHER system any better? (e.g., in Australia we have for a long time had a system emphasising number of publications only and treating all peer reviewed publications as equally good -- there is scientific evidence [Anne-Wil Harzing, again!] this has increased the quantity but decreased the academic impact of Australian research--and more so in business econmics than in other areas)
Personally, I prefer a system that has transparent criteria to one that hasn't, and one that is better than the current system--albeit not perfect (no system is ever going to be)--to clinging to the old one (we are currently moving towards a more quality-sensitive system in Oz, which many individuals and institutions whinge and agonise over).
The tragedy of all the measuring, ranking and accreditation is rather the amount of time and effort that is invested into it, rather than into producing the excellent work that is the intended object of all these efforts.
We still do research to learn, grow, have fun--and be of some use, right?
Regards,
Per
Per Davidsson
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