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| Author: | Alferoff, C. Knights, D. |
| Title: | Making and mending your nets: Managing relevance, participation and uncertainty in academic-practitioner knowledge networks |
| Journal: | British Journal of Management
2009 : MAR, VOL. 20:1, p. 125-142 |
| Index terms: | management universities business schools knowledge networks research industries United Kingdom theories |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Making and mending your nets is concerned to examine, from an actor-network (henceforth as: a-n.) theory perspective, how the relevance debate concerning research and teaching is a significant non-human actor in the development and management of industry-academic networks related with U.K. business schools. This paper uses a-n. theory as a framework for examining the primary empirical research on academic-practitioner (here as: a-p.) knowledge networks (as: k-nets), nets requiring a continuous making and mending in managing relevance, participation and uncertainty. It is argued that the a-n. framework is more compatible than alternative knowledge diffusion or transfer models with the gathered data on a-p. k-nets in the U.K. In summary, the described networks vary in style, scope and mission but what seems to sustain them is the arousal of some, although more or less differentiated, shared interest in a problem. |
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