Reflexive evaluation of an academic-industry research collaboration: Can mode 2 management research be achieved?

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 733-754

  Mitev, Nathalie ^a   Venters, Will ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 66249122775     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00846.x     Document Type: Article

References (80)

1. Alvesson, M. Deetz, S. (2000). Doing Critical Management Research. London : Sage.
2. Alvesson, M. Sköldberg, K. (2000). Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research. London : Sage.
3. Ashmore, M. (1989). The Reflexive Thesis. Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press.
4. Baker, S. (1990 Reflection, doubt, and the place of rhetoric in postmodern social theory Sociological Theory, 8, 232 45.
5. Baritz, L. (1960). The Servants of Power. Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press.
6. Barthorpe, S., Chien, H.-J. Shih, J. K. C. (2003a The current state of IT or ICT usage by UK construction companies International Journal of Electronic Business, Special Issue: E-Procurement: Myths and Realities, 1, 358 71.
7. Barthorpe, S., Chien, H.-J. Shih, J. K. C. (2003b The potential for ERP in integrating the supply chain in the UK construction industry International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, 1, 185 209.
8. Berger, P. Luckmann, T. (1966). The Social Construction of Reality. London : Penguin Books.
9. Bresnen, M. Marshall, N. (2000a Motivation, commitment and the use of incentives in partnerships and alliances Construction Management and Economics, 18, 587 98.
10. Bresnen, M. Marshall, N. (2000b Building partnerships: case studies of client-contractor collaboration in the UK construction industry Construction Management and Economics, 18, 819 32.
11. Brown, J. S. Duguid, P. (1991 Organizational learning and communities-of-practice: toward a unified view of working, learning, and innovation Organization Science, 2, 40 57.
12. Cacciatori, E. (2004). Organisational Memory and Innovation across Projects: Integrated Service Provision in Engineering Design Firms. Paper No. 117, SPRU, The Freeman Centre, Science and Technology Policy Research. Brighton: University of Sussex. Available at: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/ (accessed 18 March 2009).
13. Calás, M. Smircich, L. (1992 Rewriting gender into organizational theorizing: directions from feminist perspectives In Reed, M. Hughes, M. (Eds Re-Thinking Organizations: New Directions in Organizational Theory and Analysis. London : Sage, 227 53.
14. Calás, M. B. Smircich, L. (2003 At home from Mars to Somalia: recounting organization studies In Tsoukas, H. Knudsen, C. (Eds The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory: Meta-Theoretical Perspectives. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 596 605.
15. Campbell, D. F. J. (2005 University/business research networks: new challenges for knowledge production and advanced innovation systems Bridges - The OST's Publication on S&T Policy. Vol. 5, 14 April, http://www.ostina. org/html/bridges.
16. Checkland, P. (1981). Systems Thinking, Systems Practice. Chichester : Wiley.
17. Chompalov, I., Genuth, J. Shrum, W. (2002 The organisation of scientific collaborations Research Policy, 31, 749 67.
18. Clark, T. (2004 Guest editor's introduction Journal of Management Studies, 41, 367 76.
19. Cunliffe, A. L. (2003 Reflexive inquiry in organizational research: questions and possibilities Human Relations, 56, 983 1003. (Pubitemid 37306391)
20. Davenport, T. Grover, V. (2001 "Editorial" to special issue on knowledge management Journal of Management Information Systems, 18, 3 4.
21. Davidson, E. Lamb. R. (2000 Examining socio-technical networks in scientific academia/industry collaboration In Chung, H. M. (Ed. Proceedings of Americas Conference on Information Systems. Long Beach, CA : Association for Information Systems, 1625 31.
22. Egbu, C. Botterill, K. (2002 Knowledge management and intellectual capital: benefits for project-based industries 10th International Symposium Construction Innovation and Global Competitiveness, W65/W55, 9-13 Sept 2002, Cincinnati, Ohio.
23. EPSRC (2003 Taking the initiative on innovation EPSRC Connect, 10, 3.
24. Fuller, S. (1995 Is there life for sociological theory after the sociology of sociology? The Journal of the British Sociological Association, 29, 159.
25. Galliers, B. Newell, S. (2001 Back to the future: from knowledge management to data management In Smithson, S., Gricar, J. E., Podlogar, M. Avgerinou, S. (Eds 9th European Conference on Information Systems. Bled : Association for Information Systems, 609 15.
26. Gibbons, M., Limoges, C., Nowotny, H., Schwartzman, S., Scott, P. Trow, M. (1994). The New Production of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies. London : Sage.
27. Gouldner, A. (1970). The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology. New York : Basic Books.
28. Grey, C. (2001 Re-imagining relevance: a response to Starkey and Madan British Journal of Management, 12, Special Issue, S27 32.
29. Guston, D. Keniston, K. (1994). The Fragile Contract: University Science and the Federal Government. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press.
30. Haniff, A. Kaka, A. (2001 A Framework for Development of a Knowledge Database for Use within the Construction Industry CoBRA, Proceedings, Annual Construction and Building Conference, Cobra, The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, Glasgow Caledonian University, 3-5 September.
31. Hardy, C., Phillips, N. Clegg, S. R. (2001 Reflexivity in organization and management theory: a study of the production of the research "subject" Human Relations, 54, 531 60.
32. Hardy, C., Phillips, N. Lawrence, T. B. (2003 Resources, knowledge and influence: the organizational effects of interorganizational collaboration Journal of Management Studies, 40, 321 47.
33. Haythornthwaite, C., Lunsford, K., Bowker, G. Bruce, B. (2006 Research in practice in distributed interdisciplinary collaboration In Hine, C. (Ed. New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production: Understanding E-science. Hershey : Information Science Publishing, 143 66.
34. Holti, R., Nicolini, D. Smalley, M. (2000). The Handbook of Supply Chain Management: The Essentials. London : The Tavistock Institute and The Construction Industry Research and Information Association.
35. Inzelt, A. (2004 The evolution of university-industry-government relationships during transition Research Policy, 33, 975 95.
36. Jeffrey, P. (2003 Observations on the process of cross-disciplinary research collaboration Social Studies of Science, 33, 539 62.
37. Johnson, P. Duberley, J. (2000). Understanding Management Research. London : Sage.
38. Johnson, P. Duberley, J. (2003 Reflexivity in management research Journal of Management Studies, 40, 1279 303.
39. Kelly, R. (2006). Shaping a Low Carbon Future - Our Environmental Vision, Speech: Towards Zero Carbon Development on 13 December 2006. Available at: http://www.communities.gov.uk/speeches/corporate/low-carbon (accessed 18 March 2009).
40. Khalfan, M. (2002). Review of the Literature on Sustainability. BUILDGREEN Working Paper, Loughborough University.
41. Knights, D. Scarbrough, H. (2007 Re-assembling the relevance argument in organisational and management research: Mode 2 and Actor Network Theory Presented at Organization Studies, as Applied Science: The Generation and Use of Academic Knowledge about Organizations 3rd Organization Studies Summer Workshop, 7-8 June 2007, Crete, Greece.
42. Knights, D. Willmott, H. (1997 The hype and hope of interdisciplinary management studies British Journal of Management, 8, 9 22.
43. Lilley, S. (2001 Conspiracy, what conspiracy? Social science. Funding and the politics of accusation In Parish, J. Parker, M. (Eds Sociological Review Monograph: The Age of Anxiety: Conspiracy Theory and the Human Sciences. Oxford : Blackwell, 166 90.
44. Lyotard, J.-F. (1997). The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (translated by Bennington, G. and Massumi, B.). Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press (originally published in 1984).
45. Maclean, D. Macintosh, R. (2002 One process, two audiences; on the challenges of management research European Management Journal, 20, 383 92.
46. Newell, S. Galliers, R. (2000 More Than a Footnote: The Perils of Multidisciplinary Research Collaboration Proceedings, Americas Conference on Information Systems, Long Beach, California, 10-13 August, Association for Information Systems.
47. Newell, S. Swan, J. (2000 Trust and inter-organisational networking Human Relations, 53, 1287 328.
48. Newell, S., Scarbrough, H. Swan, J. (2001a From global knowledge management to internal electronic fences: contradictory outcomes of intranet development British Journal of Management, 12, 97 111. (Pubitemid 33695890)
49. Newell, S., Swan, J. Kautz, K. (2001b The role of funding bodies in the creation and diffusion of management fads and fashions Organization, 8, 97 120. (Pubitemid 33229282)
50. Nicolini, D., Holti, R. Smalley, D. (2001 Integrating project activities: the theory and practice of managing the supply chain through clusters Construction Management and Economics, 19, 37 47.
51. Nonaka, I. Takeuchi, H. (1995). The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation. Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press.
52. Nowotny, H., Pestre, D., Schmidt-Assmann, E., Schulze-Fielitz, H. Trute, H. H. (2005). The Public Nature of Science under Assault: Politics, Markets, Science and the Law. Berlin : Springer.
53. Nowotny, H., Scott, P. Gibbons, M. (2001). Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty. Cambridge, MA : Polity Press.
54. Nowotny, H., Scott, P. Gibbons, M. (2003 Re-thinking science: Mode 2 in societal context Minerva, 41, 179 94.
55. Pettigrew, A. (2001 Management research after modernism British Journal of Management, 12, Special Issue, S61 70.
56. Phillips, N., Lawrence, T. B. Hardy, C. (2000 Inter-organizational collaboration and the dynamics of institutional fields Journal of Management Studies, 37, 23 43.
57. PITAC (President's Information Technology Advisory Committee) (1999). Information Technology: Transforming our Society. Report to the President, National Coordination Office for Computing Information, and Communications. PITAC, Computing Research Advocacy Government Affairs, US House of Representatives, Committee on Science Subcommittee.
58. Porac, J. F., Wade, J. B., Fischer, H. M., Brown, J., Kanfer, A. Bowker, G. (2004 Human capital heterogeneity, collaborative relationships, and publication patterns in a multidisciplinary scientific alliance: a comparative case study of two scientific teams Research Policy, 33, 661.
59. Pressman, R. (2000). Software Engineering: A Practitioners' Approach. New York : McGraw Hill.
60. Robinson, H. Carrillo, P. (2001). Linking Knowledge Management to Business Performance in Construction Organisations. Reading : ARCOM Association of Researchers in Construction Management. Available at: http://www.arcom.ac.uk (accessed 18 March 2009).
61. Rose, N. (2003). Governing at a Distance: Some Modest Thoughts on Information Technology, Democracy and Security ICTs in the Contemporary World: Work Management and Culture', ESRC TransdisciplinaryResearch Seminar Series, London School of Economics. Available at: http://www.is.lse.ac.uk (accessed 18 March 2003).
62. Sawyer, T. (2001 Knowledge return is key measure Engineering News Record, 246, 24.
63. Scarbrough, H. Swan, J. (2001 Explaining the diffusion of knowledge management: the role of fashion British Journal of Management, 12, 1 12.
64. Schön, D. (1982). The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. New York : Basic Books.
65. Schultze, U. Leidner, D. (2002 Studying knowledge management in information systems research: discourses and theoretical assumptions MIS Quarterly, 26, 213 42.
66. Scott, S. Venters, W. (2007 The practice of e-science and e-social science: method, theory, and matter In Orlikowski, W., Wynn, E., Crowston, K. Sieber, S. (Eds Virtuality and Virtualization. Boston, MA : Springer, 267 79.
67. Star, S. L. Griesemer, R. J. (1989 Institutional ecology, "translations", and boundary objects: amateurs and professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrae Zoology, 1907-39 Social Studies of Science, 19, 384 420.
68. Starkey, K. Madan, P. (2001 Bridging the relevance gap: aligning stakeholders in the future of management research British Journal of Management, 12, Special Issue, S3 26.
69. Strathern, M. (2005 Experiments in interdisciplinary Social Anthropology, 13, 75 90.
70. Swan, J., Scarbrough, H. Preston, J. (1999 Knowledge management: the next fad to forget people? 7th European Conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, 23-25 June, 668-78.
71. Swan, J., Robertson, J., Newell, S., Dopson, S. Bresnen, M. (2007 When policy meets practice - the problems of "Mode 2" initiatives in the translation of academic knowledge Presented at Organization Studies, as Applied Science: The Generation and Use of Academic Knowledge about Organizations 3rd Organization Studies Summer Workshop, 7-8 June 2007, Crete, Greece.
72. Tranfield, D. (2002 Formulating the nature of management research European Management Journal, 20, 378 82.
73. Van Aken, J. (2005 Management research as a design science: articulating the research products of mode 2 knowledge production in management British Journal of Management, 16, 19 36. (Pubitemid 40390480)
74. Vaughan, D. (1996). The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture and Deviance at NASA. Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press.
75. Venters, W. (2007 Degenerative structures which inhibit communities of practice: a case study of the British Council Information Systems Journal, 17, 349 68.
76. Viner, N., Powell, P. Green, R. (2004 Institutionalized biases in the award of research grants: a preliminary analysis revisiting the principle of accumulative advantage Research Policy, 33, 443.
77. Von Krogh, G., Ichijo, K. Nonaka, I. (2000). Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
78. Weick, K. (1999 Theory construction as disciplined reflexivity: tradeoffs in the 90s Academy of Management Review, 24, 797 810.
79. Weick, K. E. (2001 Gapping the relevance bridge: fashions meet fundamentals in management research British Journal of Management, 12, Special Issue, S71 75.
80. Worrall, L. (2008 Management research and management practice: is the relevance gap closing? International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 3, 1 18.