What Makes Research Possible? The Management Studies Research Division at the London School of Economics

C. Napier, Martin E. Persson
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Purpose – The paper examines a scarcely known research initiative, the Management Studies Research Division (MSRD), established at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1964, but moribund by 1972.

Design/methodology/approach - The paper seeks to identify the conditions of possibility that facilitated the MSRD’s emergence and ultimately led to its failure.

Findings – In the early 1960s, a growing social and political awareness of the importance of good management, combined with the availability of both public and private funding, encouraged management research in the UK. The MSRD had some institutional support at the LSE, but it also needed a “champion” to set it up, raise money and manage the unit. This champion was Harold C. Edey, Professor of Accounting at the LSE. Difficulties in finding and retaining good management researchers, when many universities were developing business and management teaching and research, inhibited the MSRD’s survival.

Research limitations/implications – Although the paper studies a single management research unit, it identifies conditions of possibility for management research to take off and thrive, or otherwise, that are likely to be relevant for other times and places.

Originality/value – The paper describes a largely unknown episode in the development of management research in the UK, and proposes various factors as helping to explain both the success and the ultimate failure of a management research initiative.
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是什么让研究成为可能?伦敦经济学院管理研究部门
目的——本文考察了一项鲜为人知的研究项目——管理研究研究部(MSRD),该部门于1964年在伦敦政治经济学院(LSE)成立,但到1972年就已奄奄一息。设计/方法/方法-本文试图确定促成MSRD出现并最终导致其失败的可能性条件。在20世纪60年代初,社会和政治对良好管理重要性的认识日益增强,加上公共和私人资金的可用性,鼓励了英国的管理研究。MSRD在伦敦证交所得到了一些机构的支持,但它也需要一个“冠军”来成立、筹集资金和管理该部门。这位冠军就是伦敦政治经济学院会计学教授哈罗德·c·埃德。当许多大学都在发展商业和管理教学和研究时,很难找到和留住优秀的管理研究人员,这阻碍了MSRD的生存。研究限制/影响-虽然本文研究了一个单一的管理研究单位,但它确定了管理研究起飞和繁荣的可能性条件,否则,可能与其他时间和地点相关。原创性/价值-这篇论文描述了英国管理研究发展中一个很大程度上未知的插曲,并提出了各种因素,以帮助解释管理研究计划的成功和最终失败。
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