Research-Teaching-Practice linkages: A challenge for Business Schools

Anabel Gutierrez ()
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Anabel Gutierrez: Faculty of Business and Management, Regent's College London, UK

Border Crossing: Transnational Working Papers, 2011, vol. 2011, issue 1103, pages 29-44

Abstract: Changes in the global business environment are driving changes to the way business schools deliver higher education. However, the long debated gap be-tween academia and industry (research-practice) remains unsolved. This paper explores the integration of research-teaching activities as an alternative to over-come the sometimes conflictual relationship between research and teaching and, more importantly, as a mechanism to reduce the research-practice gap. The aim of this research is to evaluate the extent to which it is feasible to integrate re-search-teaching in higher education. The practical suggestions to reduce the re-search-teaching gap proposed by Burke and Rau (2010) are tested in this paper through action research. This research provides empirical evidence on the rela-tionships between research, teaching and practice which could help to improve academic performance, produce better managers for industry and consequently, build a bridge between academics and practitioners.

Keywords: Research-teaching; Research-practice; Business schools; Manage-ment research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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