ABSTRACT
The volume of university-based business and management research in the UK has grown signifi cantly over the last 110 years. In the fi rst half of the twentieth century business and management research was undertaken by a handful of academic researchers working in companies, outside scholarly associations and funded by charities and philanthropists. Over the course of the next 60 years this activity grew rapidly to become a multimillion pound publicly funded endeavor involving nearly 3,500 university-based researchers directly and impacting on the work of a further 9,000 university lecturers and over 230,000 students, as well as many more practicing managers (Association of Business Schools [ABS] 2009; Research Assessment Exercise [RAE] 2009).
