Reflections on Engaged Scholarship


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In this open seminar, Andy will discuss any questions and reflections on his book, Engaged Scholarship (Oxford Univ. Press, 2007), winner of the 2008 George R. Terry Best Book Award from the Academy of Management.   Engaged scholarship is a participative form of research for obtaining the views of key stakeholders to understand a complex problem.  By exploiting differences between these viewpoints, he argues that engaged scholarship produces knowledge that is more penetrating and insightful than when researchers work alone.  Click here for selected book chapters.
 
A book review by Joseph Mahoney in the current (October 2008) Academy of Management Review states, “Van de Ven’s book is a landmark publication that offers the potential for a paradigm shift (Kuhn, 1970), moving from reductionism (Pfeffer, 1993) toward theoretical and methodological pluralism.  It persuasively offers engaged scholarship as a better way than the current status quo of creating knowledge for social science and practice” (p. 1018).
 
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Prof.dr. H.G. Barkema
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