document: Business school research : bridging the gap between producers and consumers There has been a great deal of continuing discussion concerning the seemingly unbridgeable gap between so much of the research produced by business school professors and the needs of the business people who , ideally , would use it . Here , we examine this gap and suggest a model for bridging it . We sample four groups of people , business school academics -LRB- professors -RRB- , deans of business schools , executive MBA students/recent graduates , and senior business executives . Each group rates 44 different -LRB- potential -RRB- properties of exemplary research . We analyze within-group differences , and more meaningfully , between-group differences . We then offer commentary on the results and use the results to develop the aforementioned suggestions for bridging the gap we find
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