This workshop will explore mechanisms that make a research paper interesting to its audience from an editor’s perspective. Couched within a theory of business, it will focus on what makes business scholarship influential. It will present a framework to combine several attributes of influential scholarship and provide a model for producing compelling research. Examples of thought-provoking scholarship will be presented, and a break down of characteristics that make them interesting and influential will be provided. The workshop will offer suggestions as to what academics and institutions in Canada can do to develop and sustain influential scholarship that is relevant in a global context.