Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/31368
Title: “Real impact”: Challenges and opportunities in bridging the gap between research and practice – Making a difference in industry, policy, and society
Authors: Dwivedi, Yogesh K. 
Jeyaraj, Anand 
Hughes, Laurie 
Davies, Gareth H. 
Ahuja, Manju 
Albashrawi, Mousa Ahmed 
Al-Busaidi, Adil S. 
Al-Sharhan, Salah 
Al-Sulaiti, Khalid Ibrahim 
Altinay, Levent 
Amalaya, Shem 
Archak, Sunil 
Ballestar, María Teresa 
Bhagwat, Shonil A. 
Bharadwaj, Anandhi 
Bhushan, Amit 
Bose, Indranil 
Budhwar, Pawan 
Bunker, Deborah 
Capatina, Alexandru 
Carter, Lemuria 
Constantiou, Ioanna 
Coombs, Crispin 
Crick, Tom 
Csáki, Csaba 
Darnige, Yves 
Dé, Rahul 
Delbridge, Rick 
Dubey, Rameshwar 
Gauld, Robin 
Gutti, Ravi Kumar 
Hattingh, Marié 
Haug, Arve 
Hendricks, Leeya 
Hino, Airo 
Hsu, Cathy H.C. 
Iivari, Netta 
Janssen, Marijn 
Jebabli, Ikram 
Howard-Jones, Paul 
Junglas, Iris 
Kaushik, Abhishek 
Khazanchi, Deepak 
Kodama, Mitsuru 
Kraus, Sascha 
Kumar, Vikram 
Maier, Christian 
Malik, Tegwen 
Matthee, Machdel 
McCarthy, Ian P. 
Meier, Marco 
Metri, Bhimaraya 
Micu, Adrian 
Micu, Angela Eliza 
Misra, Santosh K. 
Mishra, Anubhav 
Molin-Juustila, Tonja 
Oppermann, Leif 
O'Regan, Nicholas 
Pal, Abhipsa 
Pandey, Neeraj 
Pappas, Ilias O. 
Parker, Andrew 
Pathak, Kavita 
Pienta, Daniel 
Polyviou, Ariana 
Raman, Ramakrishnan 
Ribeiro-Navarrete, Samuel 
Ritala, Paavo 
Rosemann, Michael 
Sarker, Suprateek 
Saxena, Pallavi 
Schlagwein, Daniel 
Schultze, Hergen 
Sharma, Chitra 
Sharma, Sujeet Kumar 
Simintiras, Antonis 
Singh, Vinay Kumar 
Smuts, Hanlie 
Soldatos, John 
Tiwari, Manoj Kumar 
Thatcher, Jason Bennett 
Vanberghen, Cristina 
Varga, Ákos 
Vassilakopoulou, Polyxeni 
Venkatesh, Viswanath 
Viglia, Giampaolo 
Vorley, Tim 
Wade, Michael 
Walton, Paul 
Major Field of Science: Social Sciences
Field Category: Economics and Business
Keywords: Academic impact;Implications for practice;Relevance;Research benefits;Research contribution;Research impact
Issue Date: 1-Jan-2024
Source: International Journal of Information Management, 2024
Journal: International Journal of Information Management 
Abstract: Achieving impact from academic research is a challenging, complex, multifaceted, and interconnected topic with a number of competing priorities and key performance indicators driving the extent and reach of meaningful and measurable benefits from research. Academic researchers are incentivised to publish their research in high-ranking journals and academic conferences but also to demonstrate the impact of their outputs through metrics such as citation counts, altmetrics, policy and practice impacts, and demonstrable institutional decision-making influence. However, academic research has been criticized for: its theoretical emphasis, high degree of complexity, jargon-heavy language, disconnect from industry and societal needs, overly complex and lengthy publishing timeframe, and misalignment between academic and industry objectives. Initiatives such as collaborative research projects and technology transfer offices have attempted to deliver meaningful impact, but significant barriers remain in the identification and evaluation of tangible impact from academic research. This editorial focusses on these aspects to deliver a multi-expert perspective on impact by developing an agenda to deliver more meaningful and demonstrable change to how “impact” can be conceptualized and measured to better align with the aims of academia, industry, and wider society. We present the 4D model - Design, Deliver, Disseminate, and Demonstrate - to provide a structured approach for academia to better align research endeavors with practice and deliver meaningful, tangible benefits to stakeholders.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/31368
ISSN: 02684012
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102750
Rights: © Elsevier
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Type: Article
Affiliation : Swansea University 
Symbiosis International (Deemed University) 
Wright State University 
Edith Cowan University 
University of Louisville 
KFUPM Business School 
Sultan Qaboos University 
International University of Science and Technology 
Al-Rayyan International University College 
Oxford Brookes University 
KPMG 
ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources 
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 
Open University UK 
Emory University 
Bank Muscat SAOG 
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad 
Aston Business School 
Natural Hazards Research Australia 
University of Sydney 
“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati 
Copenhagen Business School 
Loughborough University 
Swansea University 
Corvinus University of Budapest 
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore 
Cardiff University 
Montpellier Business School 
Liverpool John Moores University 
University of Otago 
University of Hyderabad 
University of Pretoria 
MCI | The Entrepreneurial School 
Waseda University 
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 
University of Oulu 
Delft University of Technology 
Université Internationale de Rabat 
Swansea University 
College of Charleston 
Dundalk Institute of Technology 
University of Nebraska 
Nihon University 
Piazza Università 1 
University of Johannesburg 
University of Bamberg 
Simon Fraser University 
Indian Institute of Management Nagpur 
Ovidius University of Constanta 
Jaipuria Institute of Management 
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT 
University of Agder 
Norwegian University of Science and Technology 
University of Oxford 
University of Tennessee 
Cyprus University of Technology 
University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw 
LUT University 
Queensland University of Technology 
University of Virginia 
University of Sydney 
International University of Science and Technology in Kuwait 
Universität Siegen 
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) 
European University Institute in Florence 
Temple University 
Pamplin College of Business 
University of Portsmouth 
University of Aosta Valley 
Business School Oxford Brookes University 
IMD Business School 
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed
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