The AMJ Management Research Canvas (Dorobantu et al., 2024)

Welcome to Revise and Resubmit, where ideas meet insight and research comes alive! Today, we dive into a groundbreaking editorial from one of the world’s most prestigious business journals—the Academy of Management Journal, proudly listed among the FT50 journals curated by the Financial Times. Our focus today is on The AMJ Management Research Canvas, authored by an international dream team of scholars: Sinziana Dorobantu from NYU, Marc Gruber from EPFL, Davide Ravasi from UCL, and Ned Wellman from Arizona State University. Published in 2024, this editorial is not just another paper—it’s a framework designed to help management researchers navigate the entire journey of empirical research, from defining a research puzzle to assessing their theoretical contribution. The canvas outlines nine essential elements to structure and report research: Defining the research puzzle Identifying the intended audience Crafting a research question Building a theoretical framework Selecting a research setting Designing the research Collecting and analyzing data Interpreting findings Assessing contributions and limitations What makes this framework so powerful is its balance between rigor and relevance, helping researchers align their work with both academic and practical impact. The canvas doesn't just tell us what to do—it invites us to ask better questions along the way. For instance, how do you craft a research puzzle that sparks curiosity in both the scholarly and managerial world? And how do you balance ambition with realistic limitations? Special thanks to the authors and the Academy of Management for making this valuable research open access—a gift to the academic community. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify and check out our Weekend Researcher channel on YouTube. You can also find us on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcast. So, what’s the puzzle in your research? And how will you use the canvas to crack it? Reference Sinziana Dorobantu, Gruber, M., Davide Ravasi, & Wellman, N. (2024). The AMJ Management Research Canvas: A Tool for Conducting and Reporting Empirical Research. Academy of Management Journal, 67(5), 1163–1174. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2024.4005 Youtube channel link ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠