Crossing the sea from They to We? The unfolding of knowing and practising in collaborative research
研究了一家大型咨询公司与英国管理学院合作中知识与实践的互动，发现对话空间能促进理论实践融合，但个体受机构压力利用项目谋取竞争优势会破坏合作，提出合作研究本质是知识整合而非简单成果转移。
This article addresses how knowing and practising unfolds in collaborative research amongst practitioners from a large consulting and business services group and academics from a UK School of Management. Dialogue enabled actors to cross between theory and practice by providing a ‘space’ for support, challenge, exchange and experimentation. However, this ‘space’ was fragile and the insensitive actions of one individual, driven by institutional pressure to exploit the project for competitive advantage, resulted in withdrawal and the re-establishment of traditional divisions. Our view is that collaborative research is not necessarily an exercise in producing, transferring and implementing research findings but is better thought of as knowledge integration through a dialogue of theory and practice. The article contributes to the ongoing debate about the relevance of management research and the theoretical development of knowledge co-production.