Boundary Spanning and Practical Impact in IS Research: A Bourdieusian Analysis
通过访谈24位信息系统从业博士、行业联系人和资深学者，研究如何跨越学术与实践的边界以产生实践影响，并基于布迪厄理论提出建议。
ABSTRACT Information systems (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 best to facilitate a relationship between IS academic and practitioner communities. To explore this issue, we analyse multi‐case study data from interviews with 24 IS practitioner doctorates, industry contact points, and senior IS academics who sought to create a joint field between academia and practice during their research. Our findings reveal several boundary spanning activities needed to traverse field boundaries and maintain the joint field's existence across the stages of proof‐of‐concept, proof‐of‐value, and proof‐of‐use. Building on insights from the work of Pierre Bourdieu, we further discuss how IS practitioner doctorates operationalised capital , doxa , and habitus to achieve varying degrees of practical impact in their work. Action‐oriented recommendations are presented to support practical impact going forward including creolised messages and the mobilisation of capital to change inter‐field relationships. By adapting Bourdieu's Theory of Practice to the engaged scholarship discourse in IS, we contribute new insights into how the academia‐practice gap might be addressed.