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One of the primary breakdowns in applying management research results to real-life situations is the format in which most scholarly journals present that research. Although much management research has powerful interpretive potential, it is not often articulated in ways that management practitioners can interpret or put into practice. The review process for scholarly manuscripts tends to focus on rigor of the research and theory development to ensure that they pass the test of scientific knowledge. As a result of this emphasis, the reported results of management research often fail to clarify the relevance for management practice. In the classic view of Pasteur's Quadrant, both rigor and relevance must be translated to cross the theory-practice chasm. This PDW examines a range of approaches for translating the rigorously developed results of management research into practical relevance.

The goal of this professional development workshop is to explore the divide in academia between theory and practice. Practitioner scholars, scholarly practitioners, and pure scholars will convene to surface the relevance of bridging the divide, as well as explore mechanisms to move into a regularly repeated sequence of theory informing practice, and practice informing theory - through research.

The primary discussion will be centered around the following: PRACTITIONER IN ACADEMIA and ROUTES TO PUBLICATION

Additional topics will be discussed of interest to the attendees. These discussions will take the perspective of practitioner scholars, scholarly practitioners and pure scholars.