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Towards common ground and trading zones in management research and practice

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Romme, A. Georges L., Avenier, Marie-José, Denyer, David, Hodgkinson, Gerard P., Pandza, Krsto, Starkey, Ken and Worren, Nicolay (2015) Towards common ground and trading zones in management research and practice. British Journal of Management, 26 . pp. 544-559. doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12110 ISSN 1045-3172.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12110

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Abstract

The purpose and nature of management scholarship is contested, evidenced by debates about the ‘academic–practitioner divide’ and attendant remedies for addressing it, including mode 2 and mode 3 research, engaged scholarship, evidence-based management and design science. In this paper the authors argue that, without a culture of dialogical encounter, management scholarship will never be able to emerge from its adolescence, and management will not develop into the profession that it should and can become. The central proposition is that the highly fragmented landscape of management (practice and scholarship) lacks sufficient capability for dialogue among the plurality of actors situated across that landscape. Developing the dialogical capability ultimately required to break this fundamental impasse demands, first, a shared sense of purpose and responsibility (akin to the Hippocratic Oath in medicine) and, second, institutional entrepreneurship to establish more and better ‘trading zones’. Drawing on the philosophy of pragmatism, the authors further this endeavour by identifying and proposing key elements of a statement of shared purpose and responsibility. Finally, they explore the nature and characteristics of successful trading zones, highlighting particular examples that have already been created
in management studies.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title: British Journal of Management
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISSN: 1045-3172
Official Date: 2015
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2015Published
18 March 2015Available
Volume: 26
Page Range: pp. 544-559
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8551.12110
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)

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