Linking Theory & Practice
Co-Editors
Theo Peridis, York University, Can
Alvin Hwang, Pace University, US
Editorial Review Board
Jean Bartunek, Boston College, US; John Bessant, Cranfield University, UK; Anthony F. Buono, Bentley College, US; Rob MacIntosh, University of Strathclyde, UK; Ian McCarthy, Simon Fraser University, CAN; Kurt Motamedi, Pepperdine University, US; Georges L. Romme, Tilberg University, Netherlands; Dan Twomey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, US; Joan van Aken, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; Lyle Yorks, Columbia Teachers College, US
Linking Theory & Practice publishes ‘practice oriented research and scholarship,’ broadly conceived. The section is designed to address issues of relevance to scholars as well as practitioners, especially in areas where these two communities intersect. As such, we offer scholars new theoretical insights derived from practice that may inform their own scholarship and theory-building, and offer practitioners new insights drawn from scholarship and theory to improve their managerial effectiveness. In particular, we expect to enhance the development of knowledge in the context of application.
What distinguishes Linking Theory & Practice is our commitment to publish works that result from the relationship between management theory and management practice in a co-production model of knowledge development. Linking Theory & Practice is interested in the production of actionable knowledge, the relationship between theory and practice (and between academics and practitioners), and wishes to explore these issues while providing a leading edge forum within which both academics and practitioners may contribute ideas for discussion. We intend to speak to practitioners at all levels and in all sectors, addressing problems which are of direct relevance to improving the competitive and social performance of industry and the effectiveness and quality of public services. The section is not limited to any particular field of management but rather includes the broad spectrum of management issues, from the strategic to the tactical, from the corporation to the individual, from the local to the global, from the executive to the subordinate, from the conglomerate to the not-for-profit.
Linking Theory & Practice also provides a forum for continuing the discussion of action in management research, which has been the subject of significant debate in the academic community for many years. We encourage authors to explore the opportunities and challenges involved in developing well-constructed social science research with an action-oriented agenda. The aim of this section is to develop this discussion by contributing theoretical and conceptual ideas and models, as well as exemplars, methodologies, tools, rules and appropriate guides to effective practice that result from research and academic activity carried out in the field.