Engaged Scholarship and the Creation of Useful Organizational Knowledge

Abstract

Engaged scholarship represents one way for making our research relevant to organizational practitioners by bridging the gap between theory and practice. Engaged scholarship is viewed as a form of collaborative inquiry between academics and practitioners that leverages their different perspectives to generate useful organizational knowledge. We explore the possibilities associated with engaged scholarship in three specific contexts: (1) theory-building and research, (2) pedagogy, teaching, and education, and (3) institutional opportunities and constraints as they relate to issues of tenure and promotion and creation of the engaged campus.

Keywords:

• Engaged Scholarship
• Theory
• Practice
• Collaborative Inquiry

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Notes on contributors

J. Kevin Barge

J. Kevin Barge is Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University

Pamela Shockley-Zalabak

Pamela Shockley-Zalabak is Chancellor and Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs