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Boundary Spanning and Practical Impact in IS Research: A Bourdieusian Analysis.

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Názov: Boundary Spanning and Practical Impact in IS Research: A Bourdieusian Analysis.
Autori: McCarthy, Stephen1 (AUTHOR) stephen.mccarthy@ucc.ie, Scholta, Hendrik2,3 (AUTHOR), Hausvik, Geir Inge4 (AUTHOR), Busch, Peter André4 (AUTHOR)
Zdroj: Information Systems Journal. Jul2025, Vol. 35 Issue 4, p1257-1284. 28p.
Predmety: *BOUNDARY spanning activity, *DESIGN science, *INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems, SCHOLARLY method, ACADEMIA
Abstrakt: Information systems (IS) research often seeks to deliver practical impact in addition to the traditional requirement for theoretical contribution. While an admirable goal, it is nevertheless a challenging prospect, as key questions remain around how best to facilitate a relationship between IS academic and practitioner communities. To explore this issue, we analyse multi‐case study data from interviews with 24 IS practitioner doctorates, industry contact points, and senior IS academics who sought to create a joint field between academia and practice during their research. Our findings reveal several boundary spanning activities needed to traverse field boundaries and maintain the joint field's existence across the stages of proof‐of‐concept, proof‐of‐value, and proof‐of‐use. Building on insights from the work of Pierre Bourdieu, we further discuss how IS practitioner doctorates operationalised capital, doxa, and habitus to achieve varying degrees of practical impact in their work. Action‐oriented recommendations are presented to support practical impact going forward including creolised messages and the mobilisation of capital to change inter‐field relationships. By adapting Bourdieu's Theory of Practice to the engaged scholarship discourse in IS, we contribute new insights into how the academia‐practice gap might be addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstrakt:Information systems (IS) research often seeks to deliver practical impact in addition to the traditional requirement for theoretical contribution. While an admirable goal, it is nevertheless a challenging prospect, as key questions remain around how best to facilitate a relationship between IS academic and practitioner communities. To explore this issue, we analyse multi‐case study data from interviews with 24 IS practitioner doctorates, industry contact points, and senior IS academics who sought to create a joint field between academia and practice during their research. Our findings reveal several boundary spanning activities needed to traverse field boundaries and maintain the joint field's existence across the stages of proof‐of‐concept, proof‐of‐value, and proof‐of‐use. Building on insights from the work of Pierre Bourdieu, we further discuss how IS practitioner doctorates operationalised capital, doxa, and habitus to achieve varying degrees of practical impact in their work. Action‐oriented recommendations are presented to support practical impact going forward including creolised messages and the mobilisation of capital to change inter‐field relationships. By adapting Bourdieu's Theory of Practice to the engaged scholarship discourse in IS, we contribute new insights into how the academia‐practice gap might be addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:13501917
DOI:10.1111/isj.12577