Response: Van de Ven and Johnson's “Engaged Scholarship”: Nice Try, But…

McKelvey, B.

Abstract

Practitioners find little value in academic research. Some see it as a knowledge flow problem; others see practitioner and academic knowledge as unrelated. Van de Venand Johnson propose a pluralistic collective of researchers and practitioners using "engaged scholarship" and intellectual arbitrage to create practitioner-meaningful research. It's a nice dream, but not a solution; bias, disciplines, and particularism remain. Neither discipline-centric nor practitioner-driven research offers a solution. Earthquake science offers a better model for business school research.

Citation

McKelvey, B. (2006). Response: Van de Ven and Johnson's “Engaged Scholarship”: Nice Try, But…. Academy of Management Review, 31(4), 822-829. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2006.22527451

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2006
• Deposit Date: Aug 27, 2008
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 1, 2017
• Journal: Academy of Management Review
• Print ISSN: 0363-7425
• Electronic ISSN: 1930-3807
• Publisher: Academy of Management
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 822-829
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2006.22527451
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1538477