With apologies for cross posting...
We are a group of scholar-practitioners and would like to invite you to participate in a PDW focused on bridging the research-practice gap and to inspire extensions of current efforts to increase the relevance of academic work with a specific focus on this coming year's program theme, "Making Organizations Meaningful." We will be building upon the work of the last year's PDW Workshop entitled, "Translating scholarship into practice: Using the World Café technique to explore the gap between scholars and practitioners?"
This PDW would be offered at the Academy of Management Conference in Anaheim, CA, in August 2016.
We are approaching the research-practice gap from several angles, including the researcher, practitioner, and consultant perspectives. Therefore, we are recruiting a panel of scholar-practitioners to share with us their experiences and perspectives.
The workshop is envisioned as an interactive discussion between scholars and practitioners to identify gaps between research and practice and brainstorm strategies for working together to close the gap. Focusing on questions such as:
· How can we better define the sweet spot of research that meets both standards of rigor and practicality simultaneously and can be credibly communicated to both audiences?
· How can social media be used to improve the translation of management research to management practice?
· How do we define impact outside the Academy of Management and how should we as scholars aspire to achieve such impact?
· What is meant by the notion of "engaged scholarship" and what are the many ways that we as academics can engage our (community) stakeholders in the research enterprise?
· What do we as scholars do to inhibit the generation of practically relevant research and the communication of such?
· How do we build a culture of integrating research and practice?
· How do we build a culture of integrating practitioners into research efforts?
We seek to interactively explore with participants how each role contributes to the creation, translation, and dissemination of research that achieves relevance to practice.
If you are interested in joining us, we simply need a short paragraph from you describing your organization, your role, and a summary of the approach your organization uses to integrate research into practice or practice into research. Please submit your information to me by December 1st
We hope you will consider joining us!
Regards,
Melanie
Dr. Melanie P. Cohen
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