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T1 - Transferring Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research to Practice
T2 - Barriers and Solutions to the Practitioner-Academic Gap
AU - Samuel, Grace
AU - Stowell, Alison
AU - Williams, Amanda
AU - Irwin, Rodney
PY - 2022/10/27
Y1 - 2022/10/27
N2 - Interdisciplinary sustainability knowledge in the field of management is often perceived as lacking relevance for practical applications in the field. This then hinders progress towards a more sustainable business. In this chapter, we discuss why the practitioner-academic gap exists including knowledge transfer problems, knowledge production problems and philosophical problems. We reflect on whether the gap is simply unbridgeable or whether it is possible to find solutions such as improved communication of scientific knowledge and collaboration.We illustrate our literature review with the case of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) flagship executive education program. This initiative is part of the WBCSD’s commitment to sustainable development by educating business leaders on possible pathways from business-as-usual to a sustainable future. The program initiative aims to bring interdisciplinary knowledge attached to the sustainability agenda and apply this to practice. The learnings of bridging the practitioner-academic gap in this initiative are creating a shared goal, retaining ownership and creating multilingual translators all of which are key for future endeavours that aim to transfer interdisciplinary knowledge. Keywords: interdisciplinary, sustainability, practitioner-academic gap, collaboration, knowledgehttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-06924-6_12
AB - Interdisciplinary sustainability knowledge in the field of management is often perceived as lacking relevance for practical applications in the field. This then hinders progress towards a more sustainable business. In this chapter, we discuss why the practitioner-academic gap exists including knowledge transfer problems, knowledge production problems and philosophical problems. We reflect on whether the gap is simply unbridgeable or whether it is possible to find solutions such as improved communication of scientific knowledge and collaboration.We illustrate our literature review with the case of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) flagship executive education program. This initiative is part of the WBCSD’s commitment to sustainable development by educating business leaders on possible pathways from business-as-usual to a sustainable future. The program initiative aims to bring interdisciplinary knowledge attached to the sustainability agenda and apply this to practice. The learnings of bridging the practitioner-academic gap in this initiative are creating a shared goal, retaining ownership and creating multilingual translators all of which are key for future endeavours that aim to transfer interdisciplinary knowledge. Keywords: interdisciplinary, sustainability, practitioner-academic gap, collaboration, knowledgehttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-06924-6_12
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-06924-6_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-06924-6_12
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783031069239
T3 - Strategies for Sustainability
SP - 231
EP - 245
BT - Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Business
A2 - Sjafjell, Beate
A2 - Rusell, Rosanne
A2 - Van Der Velden, Maja
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -