This book contributes to the growing body of work addressing the processes and consequences of national governments' audits of the performance of higher education institutions (HEIs) in different countries.
Addresses a topic of global importance across all business schools and beyond
Concise analysis of research impact, with critical insights into its challenges
Contains distilled guidance and recommendations for administrators and policymakers in higher education settings
This book takes a critical view of the whole process of defining and measuring impact and problematises some of the key issues associated with it. It offers insights and questions as to how impact affects institutions and organisations and helps to shape an understanding of how impact might be conceptualised in its broadest sense. Lisa Anderson, Professor of Management Development, University of Liverpool, UK
'Much is talked about the need for business schools to provide impactful research, but there remains much unclarity as to what this is about. Sliwa and Kellard provide a concise, thoughtful, yet comprehensive, account that does much to clarify what impact is all about, the intended and unintended consequences of pursuing impact, and promote a more inclusive impact agenda. This work is historically and contextually rooted, and is theoretically insightful. There is little doubt that this will be a standard reference work in this important area.' Geoffrey Wood, Dancap Private Equity Chair in Change and Innovation, University of Western Ontario, Canada
An important and timely addition to the [critical] discussions of research impact, this book is provides a unique and imperative focus on inequality. In exploring the (un)intended consequences of impact, Sliwa and Kellard bring to the fore a crucial, progressive debate not only about the societal role of impact, but also how its rhetoric can become more inclusive. Providing recommendations for a range of business school stakeholders, this is set to be a go-to text for those interested in promoting and practicing inclusive research impact. Emily Yarrow, Senior Lecturer in Management and Organisations, Newcastle University, UK
Martyna Sliwa is Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Durham, UK.
Neil Kellard is Professor of Finance and Dean of Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK.
1. The idea of university and its societal role 2. Academic debates surrounding impact and relevance of BMS research 3. Framing impact 4. The influence of the impact agenda on organisational inequalities 5. The (un)intended consequences of impact: The university, the society and the economy 6. Putting impact to work