한국의 경영학연구 = 이대로는 안 된다

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Management research activities in Korea have drastically increased in the past three decades. Over 4,000 articles have appeared in journals published by management related academic societies. These articles have, however, made little contributions to developing management theories that may be compatible with the economic and cultural environment in Korea for two reasons. First, in view of the theory-development process, there is a serious mismatch between the kind of theories Korea needs at this point in time and research methodologies used by most researchers. The majority of the articles introduce either existing Western theories or test hypotheses deducted therefrom without taking into account of local idiosyncrasies. The accumulation of inductive theory-generating, descriptive research must precede deductive theory-testing research. Without the former, the accumulation of the latter will lead to nowhere. Such a problem stemmed largely from skewed training in most American universities. Even seasoned American scholars deplore the unproductive nature of the analytical research tradition. Second, despite drastic increase in research outputs, few have produced critical review papers that integrate existing theories and research methodologies and, in turn, present new research directions. Management research in Korea requires a major directional change in the future.