Having Scholarly Impact: The Art of Hitting Academic Home Runs

With more and more academics feeling more and more pressure to produce numbers of publications, I articulate the value of papers that are perhaps fewer in number, but have more impact on the subsequent research and thinking of others. Based on a presentation at a 2011 Academy of Management Professional Development Workshop entitled, “What Is an Academic Home Run and How Do I Hit One?,” this paper describes the attributes of “home run” papers in...