How can academic-policy collaboration be more effective? A stewardship approach to engaged scholarship in the case of SME internationalization / Margaret Fletcher, Pavlos Dimitratos and Stephen Young.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Fletcher, Margaret, author.

Contributor:

Dimitratos, Pavlos, 1967-

Young, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic and Social Development.

International Trade and Finance.

Local Subjects:

Economic and Social Development.

International Trade and Finance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (19 pages)

Contained In:

Transnational Corporations Vol. 25, no. 1, p. 23-41 25:1<23 2076099X

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 2018.

System Details:

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Summary:

In response to calls for more policy-relevant academic research, this paper undertakes a stewardship approach to examine an engaged scholarship policy programme targeted at supporting the internationalization of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Scotland, namely the Global Companies Development Programme (GCDP). The study was undertaken by academics and included a combined formal evaluation and research study, a follow-up workshop and group interviews over a ten-year-period. This study extends the stewardship approach to the engaged scholarship context. The findings suggest that stakeholders view their collaboration as a "supra-organizational" formation through which they can identify and empathize with its objectives; require skilful boundary spanners who consistently promote the objectives of the collaboration in the participating organizations; and, accentuate effective knowledge generation and transfer to SME internationalization activities that reflect the outcomes of their collaboration. We discuss policy implications for the development of private-public and inter-agency partnerships.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).

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