We are seeing fewer and fewer theoretical papers in business journals, and I came across an article (cannot track the reference now) that criticized the journals' tendency of publishing fewer theoretical papers. Do you think this is because of the publishers' perception of their readers' interest, or our inability to write critical theoretical papers, or just a general trend of being biased towards empirical papers?
One of my friends raised this issue, and we decided that if we need to publish in a business journal, we should state our theory very clearly, and discuss the empirical data that was collected, as to whether it supported the theory (or not). Perhaps editors and reviewers feel that empirical papers are more interesting and contribute more weight, because we must use the term 'data-driven', if we must convince others of what we are presenting (in education sector, at least).
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