Impact-driven scholar, reflective practitioner, or pracademic? Conceptualizing hybrid roles to bridge the research-practice gap in HRM
提出一个研究-实践角色的连续谱，区分了影响力驱动型学者、反思型实践者和实践学者三种混合角色，并说明它们如何帮助弥合人力资源管理理论与实践的鸿沟，对学者、从业者和政策制定者均有启示。
Bridging the gap between theoretical concepts relating to human resource management (HRM) and practical application of research insights is essential for creating important, relevant, and therefore high impact management theories about work and organizations. Pracademics, who actively participate in both research and practice activities, cross boundaries between domains, so play a critical role in bringing theories into practice. However, the role of pracademics is conceptually underdeveloped and ambiguous, limiting our understanding of how actors engage in bridging the research-practice divide. We propose a continuum of research-practice roles, recognizing that hybrid roles are often fluid in nature. We explain how hybrid professionals hold different identities; as impact-driven scholars, reflective practitioners, or pracademics. These roles have implications for individuals' activities, identity work, career, and collaboration. Drawing on three contemporary challenges in HRM, we illustrate how hybrid professionals can align HRM theory and practice and help close the research-practice gap. As well as theoretical and managerial implications, we also highlight implications of the continuum of roles for policy makers and funders. • Impact-driven scholars, reflective practitioners, and pracademics are hybrid professionals. • Each role contributes to research-practice collaborations in distinct ways. • A continuum of roles clarifies identities and activities in research-practice partnerships. • Pracademics have an important role to bridge the research-practice gap in HRM. • A fluid identity helps pracademics to navigate research, practice, and policy.