This paper suggests how the 'grey literature', the diverse and heterogeneous body of
material that is made public outside, and not subject to, traditional academic peer‐review …

Reviews of existing research evidence have the potential to inform both practice and
scholarship. This opportunity is currently not being fully realized in management and …

The aim of this chapter is to provide guidance to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers
who are engaged in producing, commissioning, or using reviews of research evidence in the …

How and to what extent practitioners use the scientific results of management studies is of
great concern to management scholars and has given rise to a considerable body of …

This chapter advocates the good scientific practice of systematic research syntheses in
Management and Organizational Science (MOS). A research synthesis is the systematic …

One force pulls researchers toward individual applications and separate variations of certain
general, often vague ideas. The other force pulls researchers toward learning from each …

From medicine to education, evidence-based approaches aim to evaluate and apply
scientific evidence to a problem in order to arrive at the best possible solution. Thus, using …

In this important new book, Christopher Pollitt, one of the leading researchers in public
policy and management, argues that we are guilty of neglecting a fundamental dimension of …

This article explores the use of evidence and varieties of knowledge in police decision
making. It surveys official government policy, demonstrating that evidence-based …

This book is a collection about cultural-historical activity theory as it has been developed
and applied by Yrjö Engeström. The work of Engeström is both rooted in the legacy of …