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SUMMARY:Seminar by Prof. Geoffrey Kistruck\, Schulich Business School
DTSTART:20181101T160000
DTEND:20181101T173000
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Geoffrey Kistruck\, Schulich Business School\n"A Collabo
 rative Model for Creating Practically Relevant AND Theoretically Interesti
 ng Research"\n\nAbstract\n\nDespite an ongoing desire to build a meaningfu
 l bridge between academia and practice to solve social problems\, both par
 ties continue to struggle to find productive ways to collaborate. Academic
 s are focused on publishing in top academic journals (which practitioners 
 don't read) and contributing to theory (which seems overly abstract to pra
 ctitioners). Practitioners are focused on 'big picture' issues (which aren
 't granular enough for academics to study) and figuring out what to do in 
 the future (whereas academics often want to understand the past). The Soci
 al Innovation Research Lab has developed a collaborative research model th
 at allows for a 'win-win' scenario. More specifically\, the model uses a '
 matching' approach to identifying a research question that is both theoret
 ically interesting and practically relevant\, and a mixed method approach 
 for collecting data that combines qualitative interviews with the use of f
 ield experiments. This model has been used to conduct numerous research pa
 rtnerships with social enterprises around the world that have not only res
 ulted in top tier publications\, but also in providing meaningful insight 
 to practitioners as they attempt to continuously improve and innovate thei
 r organizational practices.\n\n 
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