Academic engagement as knowledge co-production and implications for impact: Evidence from Knowledge Transfer Partnerships |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK;2. Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS, UK;3. Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK;1. Marketing Department, University of Ljubljana, Kardeljeva ploščad 17, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia;2. Department of International Marketing, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria;3. Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education, Economy, University of Vienna, Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG), 1010 Vienna, Austria;1. National Chengchi University, 64, Sec. 2 Zhi-Nan Road, Taipei 11605, Taiwan;2. Florida State University, Department of Marketing, College of Business, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1110, United States;3. Georgia State University, Institute of International Business, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, 35 Broad Street, Atlanta 30303, Georgia;1. University of Portsmouth, Department of Marketing and Sales, Portland Street, PO13DE, United Kingdom;2. University of Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”, Department of Economics and Business, Via Perrone 18, 28100 Novara, Italy;1. Lappeenranta University of Technology School of Business and Management, P.O. Box 20, FI-53851 Lappeenranta, Finland;2. Aalto University, Runeberginkatu 22, FI-00100 Helsinki, Finland;1. University of Vienna, Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, Department of International Marketing, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria;2. School of Economics and Business, University of Sarajevo, Trg oslobođenja 1, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina;3. Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands CV4 7AL, United Kingdom;4. Loughborough University, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK;1. University of Hamburg, Institute of Marketing, Moorweidenstr. 18, 20148 Hamburg, Germany;2. Namseoul University, Department of International Distribution & Marketing, 91 Daehakro Seonghwan-eup, Seobukgu, Cheonan 31020, South Korea;3. Hanyang University, Graduate School of Business, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 04763, South Korea |
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| Abstract: | Researchers have argued that management academics' engagement with non-academic stakeholders involves knowledge co-production rather than simple knowledge transfer from the former to the latter. This study suggests that the conceptual lens of knowledge co-production not only more fittingly describes academic engagement but also enables a clearer understanding of how academic engagement produces impact beyond academia. Building upon qualitative evidence on collaborations between management academics and businesses in the United Kingdom, the study supports the characterisation of academic engagement as knowledge co-production and argues that its impact (i) strongly depends on sustained knowledge co-producing interactions, (ii) ‘ripples out’ serendipitously, indirectly benefiting many stakeholders in ways that often cannot be anticipated, and (iii) unfolds and persists over a long period. These findings have implications for impact assessment and the development of the impact research agenda. |
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