15/06/2025 15:30
- 17:00
Hall: B2 2.12
Chair:
S. Sengupta
The research-practice divide is paradoxically still substantial, even though academic OSCM research is practically aimed at influencing practitioners: "thinking, behaving, or performing". More than ever before, engaged scholarship (Van de Ven, 2007) - a participatory and often interdisciplinary research approach that seeks to understand complex real-world problems from the perspectives and knowledge of relevant stakeholders - is needed to bridge this gap.
This special session will discuss different forms and design choices of engagement, its impact (opportunities and contributions to theory, practice, and society), methodological challenges (how to meaningfully engage with stakeholders from different backgrounds, worldviews, and expectations), and pathways of engaged scholarship in OSCM research through a series of presentations and practical examples followed by an open forum. The overarching goal of the session is to jointly explore, with the audience, strategies for navigating and managing the risks and opportunities associated with multi-stakeholder or interdisciplinary highly engaged research designs.
Panelist:
Sourav Sengupta - Organizer and moderator
Paul Coughlan - Speaker
Jagjit Srai - Speaker
Patrik Jonsson - Speaker and organizer
Torbjørn Netland - Speaker
Heidi Dreyer - Speaker
Mikael Öhman - Speaker