@inproceedings{4f9ad7e7c4414f7bb543ce0768890ec6,
title = "A Boundary Spanning Perspective of Practical Impact: The Case of IS Practitioner Doctorates",
abstract = "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 to best facilitate a relationship between IS academic and practitioner communities. To explore this question, our paper investigates boundary spanning by 'practitioner doctorates' - PhD students with professional experience who seek to span the fields of academia and practice during their research. Drawing on in-depth interviews with practitioner doctorates, our findings point towards several factors for practical impact such as researcher legitimacy, expectation management, and adapting to changes in industry requirements. In doing so, we contribute towards an understanding of engaged scholarship in IS and take steps towards addressing the dearth of research on doctoral studies in the IS field to date.",
keywords = "Boundary spanning, design science research, engaged scholarship, legitimacy, practitioner doctorates, research-practice gap",
author = "Stephen McCarthy and Hausvik, \{Geir Inge\} and Hendrik Scholta and Busch, \{Peter Andr{\'e}\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2022: {"}Digitization for the Next Generation{"}. All Rights Reserved.; 43rd International Conference on Information Systems: Digitization for the Next Generation, ICIS 2022 ; Conference date: 09-12-2022 Through 14-12-2022",
year = "2022",
language = "English",
series = "International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2022: {"}Digitization for the Next Generation{"}",
publisher = "Association for Information Systems",
booktitle = "International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2022",
address = "United States",
}