Organizer: Melanie P. Cohen, Institute for Creative Management.org
Organizer: Geoffery Seaver, National Defense U.
Participant: Christof Backhaus, Aston Business School
Participant: Dharm Prakash Sharma Bhawuk, U. of Hawaii at Manoa
Participant: Gigi Johnson, Maremel Institute
Participant: Stefan Krummaker, Queen Mary U. of London
Participant: Rob Koonce, Creighton U.
Participant: Usha C.V. Haley, Wichita State U.
Participant: Nicole M. Coomber, U. of Maryland
Participant: Robert M. Sheehan, U. of Maryland
Participant: Julie JP Palmer, Webster U.
Participant: Tyrone Pitsis, Durham U.
Participant: Jesse E. Olsen, U. of Melbourne
Participant: Dan Bumblauskas, U. of Northern Iowa
Participant: Paulo Jose Prochno, U. of Maryland
Participant: Sebastian G.M. Händschke, Friedrich Schiller U. Jena
Participant: Sonja Sackmann, U. Bundeswehr, Munich
Participant: Winfried Ruigrok, U. of St. Gallen
Participant: Ruth T. Norman, Wilmington U.
Participant: Protiti Dastidar, U. of Maryland
Participant: Catherine J. Hand, FDIC Corp U.
Participant: Lori Kendall, The Ohio State U. Fisher College of Business
Participant: Yue Cai Hillon, Western Carolina U.
Participant: Alana Pierce, HEC Montréal
Participant: Christine Madonna Kirkland, Western Carolina U.
Participant: Johanna Anzengruber, Upper Austria U. of A.S
Participant: Gideon D. Markman, Colorado State U.
Participant: Gudrun Sander, U. of St. Gallen
Participant: Kim Perkins, NOBL
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| This Professional Development Workshop (PDW) is the continuation of a line of longitudinal research from prior Academy of Management Conferences and Meetings. It will build on several very successfully PDWs: 1) Translating Scholarship into Practice: How can the Results of Scholarship be Translated into Action by Practitioners? that was conducted at the 2014 AOM Conference, 2) Translating Scholarship into Practice: Using the World Café Technique to explore the gap between scholars and practitioners? that was conducted at the 2015 AOM Conference, 3) Translating Scholarship Into Practice: Which Comes First: Theory or Practice? Scholarship into Practice that was conducted at the 2016 AOM Conference, 4) Translating Scholarship into Practice: Further Reflections on the Future of Management Theory and Practice that was conducted at the 2017 AOM Conference. This PDW will provide academics, educators, and practitioners an opportunity to discuss and reflect critically on recent strategies (e.g., to increase the relevance and usability of the AOM’s publications) to close the gap between theory (scholarship, scholars) and practice (practitioners) and (5) Translating Theory into Practice: Identifying and formulating effective strategies was conducted at the 2018 AOM Conference. We will discuss ways and means for closing the gap between management theory and management practice that include strategies for using information technology such as social media technologies to link scholars and practitioners. We approach the theory-practice gap from several perspectives, including that of the researcher, educator, practitioner, and consultant working in the public and private sectors. The invited PDW participants and other participants are experts from around the world who will interactively explore strategies for closing the theory-practice gap. This exploration will be accomplished using a modified Action-Oriented Strategy Mapping technique to identify strategic issues and formulate effective strategies (Bryson, Ackerman, Edan, and Finn, p. 469), which is a structured conversational process created to help participants to identify and organize possible issues, options, and assertions with the intention of creating goals, strategies, and actions to move forward. |