WrittenPublished by: The International Journal of Management Education available online.
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Extracted Content: Based on perceptions of 47 practicing managers enrolled in accounting, law and international business courses within an Australian Executive MBA program, our findings suggest that the nature of the ‘gaps’ between research and learning, and research and practice are quite different. Although the value of academic research is recognised, barriers impeding its capacity to more effectively speak to and be utilised by students and practitioners are common to all three disciplinary areas. These barriers do not relate to the ‘use’ of research per se, but rather to the ways in which academic research findings are typically communicated, which thus impacts its ‘usefulness’.