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ORGANIZATION STUDIES
Volume 31, Issue 9-10, Pages 1341-1367Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0170840610374396
Keywords
dialogue; relevance; practice; management research; co-production
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- ESRC [ES/G038104/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/G038104/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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In this paper we seek to show how aspects of the thinking underpinning the relevance debate can be self-defeating. We consider the relationship between academics and practitioners from a dialogic perspective and perform a textual analysis of the ways in which 'pro-relevance' academics write about research. We use role analysis techniques to highlight the potential for mismatched expectations between academics and practitioners, and then consider an illustrative dialogue between practitioners and academics to develop our view that relevance has its roots in generative dialogic encounters. We conceptualize a modified view of dialogue in the context of organizational research relationships, which we believe offers a useful starting point for co-production of knowledge and understanding.
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