Management studies and clinical practice: Introduction to special issue

Abstract

In recent management studies, there has been an increase in the number of studies based on clinical approaches. In clinical research, researchers help practitioners in defining their own problems and solutions to them. The style of intervention from researchers to practitioners in clinical practice is diversified, ranging from companion-dialogue to guidance-direction. The three papers in this special issue exemplify this diversity. In addition to providing an overview of this special issue, this paper presents several points that should be kept in mind when conducting clinical research practices in the field of administrative behavioral science. Specifically, （1） the specific social relations between researchers and practitioners in which scientific knowledge are embedded, （2） the practical utility of research findings as an apolia for researchers, and （3） the power （legitimacy） of scientific knowledge will be discussed.