Translating management research into practice: a six-step path to engage stakeholders

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dc.contributor.authorYork, John M.
dc.contributor.authorTurner, Neil
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Grant Alexander
dc.contributor.authorHussels, Stephanie
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-02T15:13:54Z
dc.date.available2025-04-02T15:13:54Z
dc.date.freetoread2025-04-02
dc.date.issued2025
dc.date.pubOnline2025-03-10
dc.description.abstractScholars have observed that management research can miss opportunities to translate its findings into practice. Some emphasize the importance of academic-practice collaboration in designing, implementing, and disseminating management research to ensure academic rigor and practitioner relevance. These views align well with evidence-based management perspectives. This paper's objective aims to describe what a research-to-practice translation path might resemble. This effort describes a six-step model to bridge research and practice: 1) identification, 2) engagement, 3) dissemination, 4) exploitation, 5) evaluation, and 6) refresh. It draws on diverse sources of information obtained via purposeful sampling (literature, websites, thought leader interviews, and personal experience and networks) to provide illustrative examples to reflect how researchers or practitioners who translate their Ph.D. work into practice engage with these steps. This work's contributions involve a roadmap for translation and extension of prior works in the extant literature calling for academic-practice collaboration in designing, implementing, and disseminating management research and multiple research-to-practice experience examples to illustrate how scholars and practitioners embrace such efforts for each phase. It also extends the ongoing academic conversation on this topic. This work proposes avenues for future research to address the limitations of this descriptive narrative. It seeks to refine the proposed model that can aid management researchers in their efforts to translate their works for managers and other practitioners.
dc.description.journalNameCogent Business & Management
dc.identifier.citationYork JM, Turner N, Wilson GA, Hussels S. (2025) Translating management research into practice: a six-step path to engage stakeholders. Cogent Business & Management, Volume 12, 2025 Article number 2475988
dc.identifier.eissn2331-1975
dc.identifier.elementsID565706
dc.identifier.issn2331-1975
dc.identifier.issueNo1
dc.identifier.paperNo2475988
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2025.2475988
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/23698
dc.identifier.volumeNo12
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311975.2025.2475988
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectEntrepreneurship research
dc.subjectEvidence-based management
dc.subjectPractice application
dc.subjectTranslation to practice
dc.subjectEntrepreneurship research
dc.subjectmanagement research
dc.subjectevidence-based management
dc.subjectpractice application
dc.subjecttranslation to practice
dc.subjectBusiness
dc.subjectEntrepreneurship and Small Business Management
dc.subjectEntrepreneurship
dc.subject35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
dc.subject3507 Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour
dc.subject3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
dc.titleTranslating management research into practice: a six-step path to engage stakeholders
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.subtypeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2025-03-01

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