Bridging the Research–Practice Divide: A Study of Scholar-Practitioners’ Multiple Role Management Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers Across Roles

Abstract

This study investigates the relationship between multiple role management strategies and associated knowledge spillovers across roles. We focus on a particular category of boundaryspanning professionals, the scholar-practitionersprofessionals who work across the boundaries of academic and practice worldsand apply a role theory lens to study a) the sources of inter-role conflict they experience at role boundaries b) the strategies of role management they enact and c) the knowledge spillovers associated to such strategies. We develop a grounded model that describes three role management strategies which occupy different positions on a role separation-integration continuum, and generate different mechanisms of knowledge spillover. Our study sheds light on the understudied relationship between role management strategies and knowledge consequences, and the type of tensions

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