Name one scholar whose contributions have significantly changed business practice? Hard to think of one, at least in marketing and managementHow about Paul Green?
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Frank Bass of Bass model fame. He used to get calls from Wall Street because of his model and its predictions. Recently host of Marketing academics have joined Amazon and other similar cos. Of course, in the area of social psych it may be more difficult to find managerial relevance since they don't care about it much. At JCR at most one para is needed to justify managerial relevance but at JMR and MS whole paper is not sufficient many times