Engaged Scholarship wins prestigious book award What: 2008 George R. Terry Book Award Winner Where: Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Media contact: Dawn Skelly, Carlson School of Management, (612) 624-8770 University of Minnesota professor and author wins prestigious book award MINNEAPOLIS — (June 23, 2008) Dr. Andrew Van de Ven, Vernon H. Heath Chair of Organizational Innovation and Change at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, will receive the prestigious 2008 George R. Terry Book Award during the Academy of Management’s annual meeting, August 8-13, in Anaheim, Calif., for his book, “Engaged Scholarship,” published in May 2007 by Oxford University Press. The Academy of Management, a leading professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations, grants the George R. Terry Book Award annually to the book that has made the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of management knowledge and that was published during the previous two years. The winner is selected by an award committee. In his book, Van de Ven bridges the gap between research and "real world" results by suggesting guidelines for carrying out soundly based, useful research for advancing both academia and business practice. Van de Ven asserts that while business practitioners and academics have fundamentally different ways of looking at the world, he believes that the differences between them actually hold solutions for big problems. He advocates for engaged scholarship, a form of research that obtains the different perspectives of and encourages collaboration between academics, business practitioners, clients, and other stakeholders. “By involving others and leveraging their different kinds of knowledge, engaged scholarship can produce knowledge that is more penetrating and insightful than when scholars or practitioners work on the problem alone,” he writes. Van de Ven directs the Minnesota Health Care Organization's Research Program and PhD Training Fellowships, as well as the Minnesota Innovation Research Program in the Strategic Management Research Center at the Carlson School. ### |