In response to critiques of strategy tools as unhelpful or potentially dangerous for
organizations, we suggest casting a sociological eye on how tools are actually mobilized by …

Despite multiple high-profile calls—across decades and from multiple stakeholders—to
address the widening gap between science and practice, the relevance of research …

Managers today increasingly find themselves facing unexpected problems, needing to learn
how to cope with complex environments and to take action in an often chaotic flow of events …

Practitioners are from Mars; academics are from Venus? Page 1 Practitioners are from Mars;
academics are from Venus? An investigation of the research-practice gap in management …

Twenty-five in-depth interviews with Belgian crisis communication practitioners were
conducted to examine the gap between theory and practice. Crisis communication has …

This paper introduces the special issue focusing on impact. We present the four papers in
the special issue and synthesize their key themes, including dialogue, reflexivity and praxis …

Context Knowledge mobilisation (KM) is a vital strategy in efforts to improve public health
policy and practice. Linear models describing knowledge transfer and translation have …

Early pioneers in management thinking, such as Henri Fayol and Peter Drucker, conceived
of management as a science-based professional activity that serves the greater good …

The gap between research and practice is strikingly evident in the area of information
technology (IT) project risk management. In spite of extensive research for over 30 years into …

Traditional business practices have been left behind due to the increased use of data
analytics and information technology in companies worldwide. This development has led to …