Subject: An invitation to join a movement for transforming our research to serve the world
From:
Paul Adler, University of Southern California
Tom Cummings, University of Southern California
Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
Yves Doz, INSEAD, France
Miriam Erez, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Henrich Greve, INSEAD, Singapore
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford University
Denise Rousseau, Carnegie Mellon University
Debra Shapiro, University of Maryland
Anne Tsui, University of Notre Dame and Peking University, China
Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite you to join us in supporting an initiative aiming to encourage more responsible and credible business and management research that contributes to the emergence of a better world.
Over the last three years, this initiative has drawn together a growing group of leading scholars in multiple business disciplines from around the world to develop a vision of a new ecology of research that would support this goal. The group has published a position paper setting out principles and proposing actions to help realize this vision. The position paper ends with this statement, which sums up our goal: "Contributing to a better world is the ultimate goal of science. Science in business and management can live up to its obligation and realize its potential through engaging in responsible research."
We believe that this vision is consistent with the AOM vision – to "inspire and enable a better world through our scholarship and teaching of organizations and management" -- as well as with the AOM strategic goal of enhancing our "professional impact.
A growing number of scholars, both senior and junior, have already joined to support this effort. Please go to
the Endorsers page of the RRBM website to see the current list of endorsers (most recent joiners appear first).
We invite you to join us to help make this vision a reality. Please start by
reading the position paper, and if you agree with the vision, we would love to see you join RRBM and endorse the paper. (On the website, you'll find information on Actions, Supporters, Readings (including a blog), and a brief history of RRBM on About Us.). Also, many business schools worldwide are signing up as institutional partners. And this is just the beginning. Change takes time and patience, and each scholar's voice will add to the call for this much needed transformation.
If you agree with our vision, we sincerely hope that you will be an endorser and invite your colleagues and friends to join us. Go to
https://rrbm.network now and add your voice to the community of scholars calling for this transformation.
Thank you and we look forward to your enthusiastic support!
Sincerely,
Anne, Debra, Denise, Henrich, Jeff, Jerry, Miriam, Paul, Tom and Yves
(Members of the Responsible Research Leadership Forum)