Wilfred Mijnhardt

📚 Source: Leadership Trends and Challenges in Business School Management: a Scoping Review
Llacha-i-Roma et al. (2026), IJELM 14(1). DOI: 10.17583/ijelm.16848.
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🚀 Top 3 transformative initiatives: (1) Centre for Academic Leadership Research, (2) SDG-aligned Impact Measurement Programme, (3) Structured Leadership Development Pathway for faculty at all career stages. Act now. (7/8)
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📊 #5: Almost no longitudinal studies on what works in academic leadership. Without long-term evidence, we cannot close the loop between leadership investment & institutional outcomes. Time to build the evidence base. (6/8)
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🗺️ #4: 85% of leadership research comes from N. America & Europe. We are studying ourselves. Global blind spots = strategic vulnerability. Invest in cross-cultural research & partnerships from underrepresented regions. (5/8)
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🌍 #3: Sustainability is the strategic frame, not a CSR add-on. Responsible leadership (12.5%), social impact (6.8%), green practices (8%). Schools that embed this across research, education & governance lead on legitimacy. (4/8)
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⚠️ #2: The 'accidental leader' problem is real. Most deans & directors are appointed without leadership preparation. No pipeline = no resilience. Build deliberate development pathways now — before the next succession gap hits. (3/8)
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💡 #1: Transformational leadership (34% of literature) is not a style preference — it's a structural necessity. Schools that inspire, align & mobilise outperform those that just manage. Strategic vision + emotional intelligence = adaptive advantage. (2/8)
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🔍 New scoping review (88 studies, 1990–2024) maps leadership in business schools. 3 key clusters: academic management challenges, leadership competency, and leadership styles. 5 strategic insights every dean needs to know. 🧵 (1/8)

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Supporting Education-Focused Careers in Management Education. New reflexive framework for career development outlining practices for discerning an educator’s vocation, activities for individual self-development, and community building.

doi.org/10.1177/1052...

On the Dramatic Rise of the New Society Journals in Economics. Updated rankings of economics journals based on established and new methodologies, and use these rankings to document the spectacular rise of the new society journals in economics.


doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...

Can we predict which chemistry research projects will pay off?

A new metrics-based approach aims to analyze paper citations, patents, news articles, and more to predict areas that are primed to provide the most benefit for the research dollar. cen.acs.org/physical-che...

#chemsky 🧪

Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted: Rethinking the Measurement of Research Impact Business school research is costly. Measuring true research impact means looking beyond journals to teaching, practice and society.

Rethinking Measurement of Research Impact in bschools: multi-horizon, multi-stakeholder, combining short-term signals, medium-term diffusion indicators, long-term outcomes across the 4 impact types (academic, teaching, managerial, and societal).

More Voices at the Top: Strategic Implications of Decreasing Research Concentration. Over 33 years, A-journal concentration dropped 29% across 7 disciplines in the UTD list. Between 1990-2022, Non-US researchers grew from 14% to 42% of articles.

doi.org/10.5465/amle...

Paper miners will likely exploit whatever open data resources they can find until data custodians put more stringent controls in place, or journals and publishers push back.

doi.org/10.1080/0898...
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Closing the paper mines!

New explosion of these low-value papers using openly available and highly regarded data sets. Fraudsters exploid open data sets to create meaningless analyses and combine these results with text from large language models.

doi.org/10.1080/0898...
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Use of AI in Research Journal Manuscript Writing and its Implications (January 29, 2026).

Business & Economics shows the most pronounced increase of all fields, rising from roughly 42% in
2021 to nearly 80% in 2025

ssrn.com/abstract=61... or http://dx.doi.org/10...

Transformative Research Assessment: Integrating Societal Impacts into Evaluation Frameworks
via CoARA

doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Measuring impact! Tips for measuring and demonstrating research impact

via Hugh Gundlach orcid.org/0000-0001-...

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🚀 KEY TAKEAWAY FOR DEANS: Develop nuanced impact narratives. Protect research autonomy. Build translation infrastructure. Partner with intermediaries. Honor your primary mission while enabling—not mandating—engagement. doi.org/10.1111/emre... 📄
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🔄 TRANSFORMATIVE INITIATIVES: • Knowledge Foundation Fund for curiosity-driven research • Long-horizon impact tracking (10-25 years) • Knowledge Translation Hub with intermediaries • Voluntary Engagement Pathways #InstitutionalDevelopment
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📊 INSIGHT 5: Multi-dimensional impact Adopt Wickert et al.'s 5 forms: scholarly, practical, societal, policy, educational. Different faculty excel in different dimensions. Build assessment systems that recognize diverse contributions. #Assessment
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✅ INSIGHT 4: "Must" vs "Nice-to-have" MUST: knowledge creation, academic rigor, intellectual freedom NICE-TO-HAVE: direct practical impact Encourage engagement, don't mandate it. Protect faculty focused on fundamental research. #Strategy
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🤝 INSIGHT 3: Division of labor in knowledge systems Academics create theories. Consultants & practitioners apply them. Our superpower? Training the TRANSLATORS (students!) who bridge the gap. Partner with intermediaries who scale application.
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🛡️ INSIGHT 2: Academic freedom = competitive advantage When funding is conditioned on impact, governments dictate research. Schools protecting intellectual autonomy attract scholars who value freedom to pursue unexpected breakthroughs. #Research
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💡 INSIGHT 1: Primary vs Secondary Impact In management research, impact is rarely attributable to single studies. Knowledge accumulates, gets translated by consultants & educators, then shapes practice. Design metrics for this reality. #AcademicLeadership
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Rethinking the Impact Agenda in Business Schools Baruch & Budhwar (2026) challenge the "impact-mania" reshaping academia. Their provocative argument: knowledge creation IS our core mission. What does this mean for strategy? Let's unpack it. 🧵👇 #BSchool #HigherEd
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Impact and management studies: Why making practical impact isnot a core academic expectation.

doi.org/10.1111/emre...


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The @wef published its 16th edition of the Global Risks Report 2026-2035. Nice opportunity to analyse all the WEF reports via Google's NotebookLM using a risk lifecycle model. The bigger picture of competing risks is illustrated in the infographic

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The impact of artificial intelligence on research efficiency. AI enhances research efficiency by automating tasks and improving data analysis. Challenges include algorithm bias and data privacy concerns affecting implementation.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ri...

The impact of the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard on science and policy. While the Scoreboard has been more frequently cited in policy documents than in peer-reviewed papers, academic interest is growing.

doi.org/10.1093/scip...