German Universities of Applied Sciences and South African Universities of Technology are vocationoriented higher education institutions with a particular focus on applied research. Due to comparable educational tasks and research focus of the institutions in both countries, this paper presents...

The rigor versus relevance debate of management research is ongoing. We contribute to this discussion by contrasting alternative assumptions about generating management knowledge and linking knowledge generation to academic governance. Specifically, we show that knowledge-by-representation...

The research papers published in this reader were presented to an audience of academicians and practitioners at the 2011 Global Business Management Research Conference at Fulda University. The conference was conducted under the topic “Recent Developments in Business Management Research in an...