From office to laboratory: the identity transition practices of the “practitioner becoming a researcher”

Du bureau au labo: les pratiques de transition identitaire du "praticien devenant chercheur"

Anaïs Boutru (), Anne-Laure Delaunay (), Marie-Pierre Vaslet () and Norélia Voiseux
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Anaïs Boutru: Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, M-Lab - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, DRM - MLAB - Dauphine Recherches en Management - MLAB - DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Anne-Laure Delaunay: IMT-BS - TIM - Département Technologies, Information & Management - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris], LITEM - Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management (EA 7363) - UEVE - Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne - Université Paris-Saclay - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris]
Marie-Pierre Vaslet: VALLOREM - Val de Loire Recherche en Management - UO - Université d'Orléans - UT - Université de Tours, IUT Tours - Institut Universitaire de Technologie - Tours - UT - Université de Tours, UT - Université de Tours
Norélia Voiseux: RTM - Régie des Transports Métropolitains

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Abstract: The literature on the role of the researcher in social sciences and the links between practice and research is prolific. However, it seldom explores the case of the "practitioner becoming a researcher" in management. This article examines this pathway, looking at pre-existing experience and identity, familiarity with the field, and the transition experience. The analysis of four autoethnographies shows that practitioners becoming researchers adopt three practices for this transition: naming themselves to establish their existence, managing preconceptions related to their field, and gaining traction for their theories by sharing their reflexivity. These results enrich existing work on preconception and offer practical recommendations for managing this transition.

Keywords: Praticien; Chercheur; Transition; Auto-ethnographies croisées; Identité (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-05
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Published in Revue Française de Gestion, 2024, 50 (316), pp.41-63. ⟨10.1684/rfg.2024.25⟩

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DOI: 10.1684/rfg.2024.25

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