Organization and Management Theory OMT

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 year's program theme, "Opening Governance."

This PDW would be offered at the Academy of Management Conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in August 2015.

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 do we as scholars have impact beyond our own community?

·         How do we design research that will have high impact on both the academic community and the practitioner community?

·         What is keeping practitioners away from engaging in research projects with academics?

·         How can graduate education change to lessen the gap between academics and practitioners?

·         What can be done to reward scholars-particularly those who are working toward tenure-at research focused management schools to publish their research in journals read primarily by practitioners rather than in journals read primarily by scholars?

·         How do we build a culture of integrating research and practice?

·         How can social media be used to improve the effectiveness management researchers and teachers to impact the practice of management?

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.  Please submit your information to me by December 1^st 

We hope you will consider joining us!     

Regards,

Melanie

Dr. Melanie P. Cohen

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