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The Handbook of Collaborative Management Research makes two major contributions to the field: 1. It captures and discusses alternative approaches and areas for cooperation between the academy and industry in the field of organization and management studies, and highlights important experiences and possibilities from recent collaborative research efforts. 2. The Handbook offers empirically based studies undertaken in boundary-spanning knowledge creation projects. The Handbook of Management Research is unique and explicitly aimed at being both a handbook on methodology and a handbook offering research findings and learning from truly collaborative research activities. The editors have brought together the world's leading authorities to: map out the territory, reflect comprehensively on the main theoretical, methodological and empirical developments that have occurred in the field since its inception, draw out important practical implications, and provide clear direction to where the field might move next.
Framing the Issues
Overcoming the Separation
Management research and management practice have become too far separated from each other. Collaborative research between management science and management practice can bring these areas closer together and make them mutually reinforcing. The focus of this handbook is on how collaborative management research can be accomplished and its potential yields. The first chapter in the framing section of the book, “The Promise of Collaborative Management Research,” provides some points of departure by discussing the meaning of the three concepts collaborative, management, and research. In addition, that chapter contains an orientation to the other parts and the individual chapters in this Handbook.
In addition to the first chapter, Part I consists of the four chapters listed at the top of Table ...
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