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- Title
Knowledge co-production in academic-practitioner research collaboration: An expanded perspective on power.
- Authors
McCabe, Angela; Osegowitsch, Tom; Parker, Rachel; Cox, Stephen
- Abstract
Knowledge co-production within academic-practitioner research collaborations is a promising means to address the pressing issue of research impact. Yet current theorising is hampered by a limited appreciation of power in the relationship between research partners. In this study, we explore various types of power and their effects on knowledge co-production in government-funded research collaborations. Drawing on interviews with academics and practitioners working on Australian Research Council Linkage Scheme projects, we initially document the prominence of structural and normative types of power, alongside resource power. We further show that both structural and normative power fail to conform to key principles of knowledge co-production. As a result, many of the projects studied fell short of the knowledge co-production ideal. Our investigation leads us to identify a boundary condition: knowledge co-production theory in its current form is bounded by resource power conditions. Our expanded perspective provides for an elaboration of knowledge co-production theory. We also explore the implications of our findings for business schools in search of impact.
- Subjects
BUSINESS schools; THEORY-practice relationship; THEORY of knowledge; BUSINESS education; EDUCATION research
- Publication
Management Learning, 2021, Vol 52, Issue 5, p604
- ISSN
1350-5076
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1350507620988431