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This is section is meant to provide information material to build your impact creation capabilities. This section is divided into three main section: Research on Impact, Communication Skills, and Books on Impact.

Research on Impact


  • Bennis, W.G., & O’Toole, J. (2005). How business schools lost their way. Harvard Business Review, May.
  • Davies, J., Yarrow, E., & Syed, J. (2020). The curious under‐representation of women impact case leaders: Can we disengender inequality regimes? Gender, Work & Organization27(2), 129-148. 
  • De Bakker, F.G.A., Bapuji, H., Brown, J.A., Higgins, C., Rehbein, K., & Spicer, A. (2022). From the editors: Introducing impact. Business & Society61(4), 791-794.
  • Eckhardt, J., & Wetherbe, J.C. (2014). Making business school research more relevant. Harvard Business Review, December.
  • Fisher, G.  (2020). Why every business professor should write practitioner-focused articles. Business Horizons63(4), 417-419.
  • Harley, B. (2019). Confronting the crisis of confidence in management studies: Why senior scholars need to stop setting a bad example. Academy of Management Learning & Education18(2), 286-297.
  • MacCarthy, I.P., & Bogers, M.L.A.M. (2023). The open academic: Why and how business academics should use social media to be more ‘open’ and impactful. Business Horizons66(1), 153-166.
  • Shapiro, D.L., & Kirkman, B. (2018). It’s time to make business school research more relevant. Harvard Business Review, July.
  • Simon, H. (1967). The business school: A problem in organization design. Journal of Management Studies4(1), 1-16.
  • Tihanyi, L. (2020). From “That’s Interesting” to “That’s Important”. Academy of Management Journal63(2), 329–331.  
  • Toffel, M. W. (2016). Enhancing the practical relevance of research. Production and Operations Management25(9), 1493-1505.

Communications Skills

  • MacGregor, S., & Cooper, A. (2020). Blending research, journalism, and community expertise: A case study of coproduction in research communication. Science Communication42(3), 340-368.
  • Hoffman, A.J., et al. (2015). Academic engagement in public and political discourse: Proceedings of the Michigan meeting, May (Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Publishing): https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mm/
  • Hoffman, A.J. (2016). Academia’s emerging crisis of relevance and the consequent role of the engaged scholar. Journal of Change Management16(2), 77-96. 
  • Hoffman, A.J. (2015). Isolated scholars: Making bricks, not shaping policy. The Chronicle of Higher Education, February. https://www.chronicle.com/article/Isolated-Scholars-Making/151707/

Books in Impact

Note: You find further information material on the page of other impact organisations such as the Impact Scholar Community​