CREATING A POLICY-ORIENTED ORGANIZATION SCIENCE: EXPANDING ON AGUINIS, JENSEN, AND KRAUSE.

The relative scarcity of policy-relevant research is the inevitable result of editorial policies pursued by most if not all of the highest status management and organization science journals. Ironically, there are a plethora of policy-oriented journals available as publication outlets, so it is possible to both publish and read policy-relevant scholarship, just not in the usual places. These facts pose a challenge to traditional journals, including those published by the Academy of Management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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