ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL EDITORS' FORUM WHAT MAKES MANAGEMENT RESEARCH INTERESTING, AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?

The first criterion by which people judge anythingthey encounter, even before deciding whether it istrue or false, is whether it is interesting or boring.Murray Davis (1999: 245)Sometimes academics take very exciting, engaging,and important work and present it in such a waythat it looks like a butterfly squashed between twopieces of glass.Blake Ashforth, quoted in Bartunek (2003: 203)

[1]  S. Hidi,et al.  Interest, Learning, and the Psychological Processes That Mediate Their Relationship. , 2002 .

[2]  F. Vermeulen.  On Rigor and Relevance: Fostering Dialectic Progress in Management Research , 2005 .

[3]  J. Bartunek.  2002 Presidential Address: A Dream for the Academy , 2003 .

[4]  Kyungmook Lee,et al.  INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN LARGE LAW FIRMS: A RESOURCE DEPENDENCY AND INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE , 2002 .

[5]  S. Barley.  Technology as an occasion for structuring: evidence from observations of CT scanners and the social order of radiology departments. , 1986, Administrative science quarterly.

[6]  Carol Sansone,et al.  Interest as the Missing Motivator in Self-Regulation , 2005 .

[7]  Ian I. Mitroff,et al.  Systemic knowledge: Toward an integrated theory of science , 1977 .

[8]  Murray S. Davis.  'That's Classic!' The Phenomenology and Rhetoric of Successful Social Theories , 1986 .

[9]  D. Black.  Dreams of Pure Sociology* , 2000 .

[10]  S. Barley.  The alignment of technology and structure through roles and networks. , 1990, Administrative science quarterly.

[11]  Murray S. Davis.  APHORISMS AND CLICHÉS: The Generation and Dissipation of Conceptual Charisma , 1999 .

[12]  N. Anand,et al.  Tournament Rituals in the Evolution of Fields: the Case of the Grammy Awards , 2004 .

[13]  D. Hambrick,et al.  FACTIONAL GROUPS: A NEW VANTAGE ON DEMOGRAPHIC FAULTLINES, CONFLICT, AND DISINTEGRATION IN WORK TEAMS , 2005 .

[14]  Sara L. Rynes,et al.  From the Editors Taking Stock and Looking Ahead , 2005 .

[15]  N. Rajagopalan,et al.  WHEN THE KNOWN DEVIL IS BETTER THAN AN UNKNOWN GOD: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF RELAY CEO SUCCESSIONS , 2004 .

[16]  P. Silvia.  What is interesting? Exploring the appraisal structure of interest. , 2005, Emotion.