Goddard, J., Eccles, T., & Birkinshaw, J. (2012). Uncommon Sense: How to Turn Distinctive Beliefs Into Action. MIT Sloan Management Review, 53(3), 33-39.

The article discusses the role of beliefs in companies’ strategic decisions. Based on their research, the authors argue that distinctive beliefs, which they call uncommon sense, sometimes explain a firm’s success. Examples they discuss include Swedish furniture retailer Ikea, the aircraft engine business of British manufacturer Rolls-Royce, and oil services company Petrofac… Read more

Rousseau, D. M. (2012). Designing a Better Business School: Channelling Herbert Simon, Addressing the Critics, and Developing Actionable Knowledge for Professionalizing Managers. Journal Of Management Studies, 49(3), 600-618.

Herbert Simon’s 1967 article ‘The business school: a problem in organizational design’ anticipated many of the challenges business schools face today. Critics charge business schools with failing to realize their primary purpose, that is, to produce professional managers. This article revisits what Simon advocated with regard to a core feature of this professionalism… Read more

Bartunek, Jean M. (2011). Evidence-Based Approaches in I–O Psychology Should Address Worse Grumbles. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 4(1), 72–75.

Many people grumble about evidencebased approaches, describing barriers to their successful implementation, giving reasons about why they won’t ever work or are wrong for other reasons (Learmonth, 2006; Morrell, 2008; Reay, Berta, & Kohn, 2009). Thus, proponents of evidence-based practices such as Briner and Rousseau (2011), in this article, and elsewhere… Read more

Armstrong, M., Brown, D., & Reilly, P. (2011). Increasing the effectiveness of reward management: An evidence-based approach. Employee Relations, 33(2), 106-120.

This paper seeks to explore the reasons why many organisations do not evaluate the effectiveness of their reward policies and practices, examines the approaches used by those organizations which do evaluate, and develops a model of evidence-based reward management which describes how evaluation can take place… Read more

Jeffery Pferrer, Robert Sutton. Trust the Evidence, Not Your Instincts. The New York Times, September 3, 2011

Many bosses aren’t checking the available evidence — like research findings — before making the big decisions that can help or hurt their employees.

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