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Dear Colleagues:
We hope that you can join us at the Academy of Management Annual Conference for the following PDW:
Translating Scholarship into Practice: Exploring the gap between scholars and practitioners
Gap in Scholarship – Practice
Program Session #: 436 | Submission: 10371| Sponsor(s): (PTC, MED, OB, MOC, SAP)
This Professional Development Workshop will build on the work of the Professional Development Workshop "Translating Scholarship into Practice: How can the Results of Scholarship be Translated into Action by Practitioners?" that was conducted at the 2014 Academy of Management Conference and Meeting held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This PDW will provide researchers and practitioners the opportunity to discuss and reflect critically on recent initiatives to bridge the research-practice gap and to inspire extensions of current efforts to increase the relevance and usability of research. This workshop will discuss ways and means for closing the gap between management researchers and management practitioners that include strategies for using information technology, such as social media technologies, to link researchers and practitioner. We approach the research- practice gap from several perspectives, including that of the researcher, practitioner, and consultant representing academia, and the public and private sectors. The PDW panel participants are experts from around the world who will interactively explore with participants how each role contributes to the creation, translation, and dissemination of research results that are relevant and useful to practitioners. This will be accomplished using the World Café method, which is a structured conversational process. Participants will discuss a particular practice-theory issue with a "table host" for about 20 minutes before moving to additional tables to discuss additional practice-theory issues with a new table host. Table hosts will provide each new group of participants on the work of prior groups. Several results are expected through the use of the World Café method: help to explore assumptions, unresolved issues and "sticking points" related to the gap between scholarship and practice; foster innovative ideas and suggestions; learn and share people's ideas; provide an interactive platform for participants to engage and share the ideas; build a sense of community, participation and ownership; start a two-way dialogue between scholars and practitioners; create and grow internal networks to for continued conversation between scholars and practitioners; and offer a professional development experience in the use of the World Café method to be used as a tool for solving real business problems.
Participant: Sim B. Sitkin; Duke U.;
Participant: Geoffery Seaver; National Defense U.;
Participant: Krzysztof Dembek; The U. of Melbourne;
Participant: Stefan Krummaker; U. of East Anglia;
Participant: Janet E. Salmons; Capella U.;
Participant: Usha C. V. Haley; West Virginia U.;
Participant: Kent Rondeau; U. of Alberta;
Participant: Rob B. Briner; U. of Bath;
Participant: Garima Sharma; Richard Ivey School of Business;
Organizer: Melanie Cohen; U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development;
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Pre-registration is not required.
If you have any questions, please contact Melanie P. Cohen, at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development at melanie.cohen@hud.gov
Regards,
Melanie
Dr. Melanie P. Cohen
IT Strategic Planning and Communications
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