Many leading organizational scholars have suggested that our discipline has become one lacking in relevance and meaning. The authors suggest that a primary reason for this perceived lack of relevance is the failure of much organizational research to be responsive to all potential research stakeholders. They propose the committed-to-participant research perspective to help address this limitation of past research.
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