ABSTRACT
Assessment criteria for doctoral research focus on making an original contribution to knowledge and on publication. In this chapter, we suggest that scholarly impact is more than this, but that the definition in Business and Management studies has been constrained and conflated with journal quality and the pursuit of novelty, and in the UK by REF. Furthermore, different stakeholders have different perspectives on scholarly impact, which further confuses the requirements. Scholarly impact of doctoral research is an aspiration that is seldom truly achieved.
