They need to be encouraged to join the scholarly publishing industry as producers and consumers. These are, primarily, organisational knowledge being better managed, more intellectual capital created, decision productivity rising, transitions of tacit to explicit knowledge and vice versa, reflective practice leading to personal and organisational continuous improvement, genuine additions to the body of scholarly literature in management. But professional managers don t do research like professional scholars. Their ideas are often under-researched. They use anecdotes and description rather than quantitative analysis.
Scholarly publishing has many worthy disciplines of rigour which improve thinking and presentation.
We need to carefully manage and extend these disciplines to accommodate a management audience, whilst using them to improve output. Finally this paper is, I freely admit, not as comprehensive as it might be. Yet, it passed one of the acid tests of good research we posited - it has utility. We used it in our company. We say yes to both approaches.