To prosper, organizational psychology should... bridge application and scholarship
探讨了如何通过改进知识双向传播和创造，以及改革学术奖励体系、促进学者与实践者更紧密合作，来弥合组织心理学领域学术与实践之间的鸿沟。
Abstract Academics and practitioners differ on so many dimensions that researchers have described them as living in different “thought worlds.” That gap persists, and there are important explanations for it, but a confluence of economic and organizational forces is driving academics and practitioners toward each other. To date, much of the effort by academics to reach out to practitioners has focused on the diffusion of scientific knowledge, not its creation. This paper explores several promising strategies for improving both the bidirectional diffusion of knowledge as well as its creation. It argues that for genuine change to occur, it is necessary to modify academic reward systems and to promote much closer collaboration between academics and practitioners. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.