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What is business school research for? Academic and stakeholder perspectives, politics and relationality

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2020
Author
Johnson, Steve
Orr, Kevin
Keywords
Business schools
Impact
Management research
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Through an empirically grounded analysis of contested interpretations of impact held by business school academics and wider stakeholders, we provide a political and relational understanding of research impact whereby impacts are realized through situated, relational and ongoing interactions. Our qualitative study of three UK business and management schools, comprising interviews with around 70 researchers, academic leaders and stakeholders explores conceptualizations of impact, examines the processes through which impact is achieved and considers the influence of the Research Excellence Framework (REF). The inclusion of academic leaders and business stakeholders adds value to studies that have focused primarily on academic researchers. We present a nuanced picture of the ways in which academics and business stakeholders conceptualize impact and navigate the complexity of roles and relationships in this arena. Implications for practice include the desirability of embracing different understandings of impact, creating space for generative dialogue and incorporating impact more explicitly in teaching and learning.
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Johnson , S & Orr , K 2020 , ' What is business school research for? Academic and stakeholder perspectives, politics and relationality ' , Studies in Higher Education , vol. 45 , no. 3 , pp. 557-578 . https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2018.1564901
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Studies in Higher Education
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2018.1564901
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0307-5079
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2019 Society for Research into Higher Education. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2018.1564901
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20228

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