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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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