1st Edition
Academic-Practitioner Relationships Developments, Complexities and Opportunities
1. Reviewing the State of Academic Practitioner Relationships (Jean Bartunek & Jane McKenzie)
Section 1: Conceptual Challenges
2. Knowledge and Practice: A Historical Perspective on Collaborative Management Research (Abraham B (Rami) Shani, Ramkrishnan (Ram) V. Tenkasi & Benjamin N. Alexander)
3. Insight and Reflection as Key to Collaborative Engagement (David Coghlan)
4. Who do We Identify With? Ontological and Epistemological Challenges of Spanning Different Domains of Academic-Practitioner Praxis (Richard Nielsen)
5. Connecting—Making Social Science Matter: The Collaborative and Boundary-Spanning Work of Intellectual Shamans (Sandra Waddock)
6. Narrative Foundations for Theorizing about Academic-Practitioner Relationships (Jean Bartunek & Sara Rynes)
Section 2: Developing Capabilities
7. Developing Capabilities of Engaged Scholarship (Andrew Van de Ven)
8. Practices for Leveraging the Paradoxes of Engaged Scholarship (Paula Jarzabkowski, Wendy Smith & Marianne Lewis)
9. Is There Anybody in There? Reconceptualizing "Action" in Action Research (Donald MacLean & Robert MacIntosh)
10. Learning the Craft: Developing Apprentice Scholars with the Capacity to Integrate Theory and Practice (Claire Collins & Richard McBain)
11. The Capacity for Phronesis: Building Confidence through Curiosity to Cultivate Conscience as Central to the Character of Impactful Scholarship (Elena Antonacopoulou)
Section 3: Becoming and Being at Home in Both Worlds
12. My Liminal Life: Perpetual Journeys Across the Research-Practice Divide (Laura Empson)
13. Partnering to Advance Sustainable Effectiveness at the Center for Effective Organizations (Sue Mohrman)
14. Mind the Transformation Gap: Knowledge Exchange, Interests and Identity in Research-Practice Collaboration (Ralph Hamann & Kristy Faccer)
15. How to Develop Scholar-Practitioner Interactions: Lessons from Management Concepts Developed through Collaboration Between Research and Practice (Guillaume Carton & Stephanie Dameron)
16. Making Values Matter: An Academic and Private Sector Collaboration (Todd Landman, Steve Glowinkowski & Kali Demes)
17. Sustaining the Interaction: The Henley Forum for Organisational Learning and Knowledge Strategies (Jane McKenzie & Christine van Winkelen)
18. Applied R&D in HR: Google's People Innovation Lab (Jennifer Kurkoski)
Biography
Jean M Bartunek is the Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair and Professor of Management and Organization at Boston College, USA.　
Jane McKenzie is Professor of Management Knowledge and Learning at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK.
"This book represents a significant contribution to the growing interest from both academics and practitioners alike in developing collaborative academic-practitioner partnerships that can yield dual benefits of rigorous research with internationally excellent publications, and strong organizational impact. This book also represents a departure from others in the area with its focus on developing how we think about academic-practitioner partnerships and the skills and capabilities to carry them out, providing a set of stimulating examples involving creative ways of collaborating that lead to successful partnerships. Both academics and practitioners who are either engaging, or considering engaging, in collaborations can gain a lot from this book." Julia Balogun, Dean, University of Liverpool Management School, UK
