Doing research on real-world challenges

Helena Barnard

RAE - Revista de Administração de Empresas, 2025, vol. 65, issue 2

Abstract: There are often calls for scholars to do more practically relevant research, but there is little guidance on how to do that. Doingwork dealing with real-world challenges is a tough task, often requiring an interdisciplinary approach. I offer six strategies tohelp scholars. It is important to care about the challenge as this is a resource in the research project. Scholars must read widelyabout the challenge, often outside the core discipline. They should plan a structured literature review as a scholarly deliverablealongside the empirical work. Because the intent is for the work to be practically usable, the empirical component has to be veryrobust. Recommendations should be linked to the core discipline, but the dissemination strategy should go beyond academia.

Date: 2025
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