Exploring the impact of reflective and work applied approaches

摘要

Welcome to Volume 9, Issue 2, of the Journal of Work Applied Management ( JWAM), a Special Issue dedicated to exploring the impact of reflective and work applied approaches. The impact agenda is now a global phenomenon with great expectations for “transformational” impacts in the wider world (Gravem et al., 2017). Paradoxically, such demands can hinder discovery through the avoidance unpredictable outcomes (Gravem et al., 2017), and problematically, there is an over reliance on very narrow conceptualisations of impact, oftentimes adopting the metrics used by research councils or governments to allocate research monies. Such metrics are fiercely debated, partly because of a disconnect with practice, and their significance in creating and shaping industries whose primary purpose it is to administer and optimise the administration of research assessment activity (Wall, 2016a, b).