The RRBM is a virtual organisation initially developed by a group of leading scholars across 23 university-based business schools, and is dedicated to inspiring, encouraging, and supporting credible and useful research in the business and management disciplines. The organisation has support from partners including AACSB, EFMD, PRME, Aspen Institute‘s Business and Society Program, GRLI, and many business schools worldwide.
By joining RRBM, the Business School becomes part of a global network dedicated to fostering research that addresses urgent societal challenges, informs ethical decision-making, and promotes sustainable progress. The seven key principles of RRBM outline:
- Service to Society: Business research aims to develop knowledge that benefits business and the broader society, locally and globally, for the ultimate purpose of creating a better world.
- Valuing Both Basic and Applied Contributions: Business school deans, journal editors, funders, accrediting agencies, and other stakeholders respect and recognise contributions in both theoretical and applied research.
- Valuing Plurality and Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Business school deans, senior leadership, journal editors, funders, and accreditation agencies value diversity in research themes, methods, forms of scholarship, types of inquiry, and interdisciplinary collaboration to reflect the plurality and complexity of business and societal problems.
- Sound Methodology: Business research implements sound scientific methods and processes in both quantitative and qualitative or both theoretical and empirical domains.
- Stakeholder Involvement: Business and management research values the involvement of different stakeholders who can play a critical role at various stages of the scientific process, without compromising the independence or autonomy of inquiry.
- Impact on Stakeholders: Business and management schools, funders, and accrediting agencies acknowledge and reward research that has an impact on diverse stakeholders, especially research that contributes to better business and a better world.
- Broad Dissemination: Business and management schools value diverse forms of knowledge dissemination that collectively advance basic knowledge and practice.
Dr Kristina Auxtova, who led on securing the partnership and who is our Academic Director of Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability, said: ‘Partnering with RRBM allows the University of Edinburgh Business School to be part of a movement for responsible research in business and management.
‘We are honoured to share this responsibility and champion research practices that align academic rigor with societal relevance. We already do a lot of fantastic work in this space, and this partnership allows us to recognise our good practice, and importantly, learn from others to improve further.
‘We look forward to actively engaging with the RRBM global network and contributing to the shared vision of responsible research that inspires trust, empowers communities, is connected to practice, and advances the common good.’
Kristina Auxtova is our Lecturer in Marketing.