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List of Reviewers (in alphabetic order) We are grateful to the following Professors, who had gone through the articles, received for this issue of Parikalpna and had carefully reviewed the same: Prof. A.K. Mohapatra, Som, KIIT University Prof. Ashish Dwivedi, Hull University UK Prof. BCM Patnaik , Som, KIIT University Prof. Hiral Shah, St. Cloud State University Prof. Parimal Vyas, MS University Baroda Prof. Prabir Patnaik, Utkal University Prof. Rajnish Mishra, IIM-Roorkee/ JIIT-U Noida Prof. Rudra P. Pradhan, IIT Khargpur Prof. Sailabala Devi, Som, KIIT University Prof. Sumita Mishra, Som, KIIT University Prof. UN Dash (Prof. DU, Utkal University) Prof. WeeYu Ghee, Malaysia Parikalpana: The KIIT Journal of Management, is indexed with:
Editorial Questions on quality of Management Research continue to receive critical comments. Just a couple of months back, this year, Prof. C Gopinath (Suffolk University, Boston) wrote on ‘Research Blues’, in leading journals (in April, 2013). Referring Lary Zicklin (Knowledge @ Wharton) and other analysts, Gopinath gave example of research works, where findings were questioned (or even reversed by subsequent studies). ‘The difficulty of establishing cause and effect relationships between variables due to the many variables that can affect the situation, and the inability to keep all the other intervening variables constant, or trying to control them. Thus, conclusions are provided with various caveats about the weaknesses of the study and the limitations on generalisability’. ‘Gate keepers such as journal editors and reviewers ask for a lot of details about the research methodology and analysis from those who submit a manuscript to get a sense of the reliability and validity of the data, analysis and the conclusions, but even they rarely have the time or the inclination to ask for the raw data and run the analysis themselves’. ‘The educational institutions should not join the game of pursuing research just because it helps the reputation or ranking of the institution. The majority of institutions should realise that they may make a better contribution to society focused on education, which is not the same as research, and which involves paying attention to teaching and making education affordable to those who need it’. These observations by those analysts, including Gopinath (Businessline, April 28, 2013 & in http://www.freenewspos.com/news/ article/c/204738/social/research-blues-in-social-sciences), are of course valid and critical. But should we not leave/ provide research and researchers some independent space? Though chance of misuse (or less use) of some research is there, Universities are certainly expected to create research environment; may be a guided/ enabled environment. Research journal is thus a part of such platform or environment. A very interesting (and humble) contribution of a journal (HBR, May 2013 issue) can be cited here, in the context of ‘Research Blues’. The journal has the interesting column/ feature, entitled ‘Defend your Research’. It probes, interviews and listens to the same researcher/ writer, who might have published some ‘hard to believe/ accept’ research findings. In the last issue, it has taken the interview of a researcher-professor, who tried to correlate the ‘size of signature’ of CEO (of an organisation) and his/ her ‘success rate’ and ‘management style’. Any body can say this as stupid or non-sense correlation study. Professors had taken months and studied over 100 globally reputed organisations/ CEOs. They find: smaller the signature, better a CEO, more caring, trusting and successful!!!. Hard to believe. Easy to put it in Lary Zicklin’s commented category. But, should we reject the work out-right or give a scope and listen to what the researcher has to say? When some body cries out ‘ureka’, we should not jump hurried to call the chap a mad fellow. The next issue of Parikalpana comes out as a special, theme-based issue, devoted to: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Articles are already selected and edited, from among those, presented in our last National Management Convention (NMC).
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