Article ID: | iaor2017161 |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 29 |
End Page Number: | 44 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2017 |
Journal: | British Journal of Management |
Authors: | Cunliffe Ann L, Scaratti Giuseppe |
Keywords: | research, social, knowledge management, organization |
This paper explores how we can embed impact in research to generate socially useful knowledge. Our contribution lies in proposing a form of engaged research that draws upon situated knowledge and encompasses dialogical sensemaking as a way of making experience sensible in collaborative researcher−practitioner conversations. We draw attention to the intricacies of doing socially useful research and illustrate how five conversational resources can be used within dialogical sensemaking through an example of a research project in which impact and relevance were embedded and where researchers and practitioners worked together to resolve an important social and organizational issue.