Exploring relevance in scholarly top journals of management: First steps of a research

The amount of management knowledge published each year in academic journals is really remarkable. Although such a production should be, at least partially, addressed to real-world managers and deal with their actual issues and concerns, we don’t know what managers really know and think about it. In this paper we present a framework developed in order to collect the views of practitioners about the impact of the research published in leading scholarly management journals on their practical activity. The study hasn’t been carried out yet but, given the importance relevance has in management research, we think it is all the same worth presenting it both to share and improve our framework and to possibly deploy it in geographical areas different than Italy.