Professional, scholar, or knowledge worker? Identity construction of Chinese management researchers amid the research-practice gap.

ABSTRACT: We move beyond discussing the desirability and feasibility of bridging the research-practice gap to introducing an identity perspective to explore how Chinese management researchers make sense of the research-practice gap and what kinds of career identities are constructed. We conducted a qualitative study among 34 Chinese management researchers working at or studying for a PhD at research-oriented business schools in China. The findings show that management researchers in typical Chinese higher education institutions prefer constructing a single identity (i.e., professional, scholar, or knowledge worker identity) rather than a hybrid identity such as "academic-practitioner" as studies of their Western counterparts suggest. Moreover, before seeking and emulating role models to construct th

SUBMITTER: Liu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11361602 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature