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Making Research More Policy Relevant: A Longitudinal Case Study of Engaged Scholarship

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Impact of International Business

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Abstract

Following calls for more policy-relevant academic research, this paper utilises an engaged scholarship (ES) approach (associated with Van de Ven, 2007) to study an innovative evaluation and research (E&R) study of the Scottish Enterprise (SE) Global Companies Development Programme (GCDP).1 The latter was a public policy initiative to support the internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Scotland, UK. The E&R study was undertaken by academics and included a combined formal evaluation and research study; a follow-up workshop and group interviews; and policymaker reflections. The chapter demonstrates the value of a longitudinal approach to evidence-based policy analysis that engages stakeholders through continuous dialogue, and presents lessons from this evaluation and research project for implementing an effective ES methodology.

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Fletcher, M., Young, S., Dimitratos, P. (2016). Making Research More Policy Relevant: A Longitudinal Case Study of Engaged Scholarship. In: Tüselmann, H., Buzdugan, S., Cao, Q., Freund, D., Golesorkhi, S. (eds) Impact of International Business. The Academy of International Business. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56946-2_12

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