Impact and Management Research: Exploring Relationships between Temporality, Dialogue, Reflexivity and Praxis

This paper introduces the special issue focusing on impact. We present the four papers in the special issue and synthesize their key themes, including dialogue, reflexivity and praxis. In addition, we expand on understandings of impact by exploring how, when and for whom management research creates...

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Published in:British journal of management 2017-01, Vol.28 (1), p.3-13
Main Authors: MacIntosh, Robert, Beech, Nic, Bartunek, Jean, Mason, Katy, Cooke, Bill, Denyer, David
Format: Article
Language:English
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Management theory
Reflexivity
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Summary:This paper introduces the special issue focusing on impact. We present the four papers in the special issue and synthesize their key themes, including dialogue, reflexivity and praxis. In addition, we expand on understandings of impact by exploring how, when and for whom management research creates impact and we elaborate four ideal types of impact by articulating both the constituencies for whom impact occurs and the forms it might take. We identify temporality as critical to a more nuanced conceptualization of impact and suggest that some forms of impact are performative in nature. We conclude by suggesting that management as a discipline would benefit from widening the range of comparator disciplines to include disciplines such as art, education and nursing where practice, research and scholarship are more overtly interwoven.
ISSN:1045-3172
1467-8551
DOI:10.1111/1467-8551.12207