Mirror, mirror outside my wall: reflexive impacts of insider/outsider collaborative inquiry on the insider researcher

McKenzie, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2444-6264 and Bartunek, J. (2023) Mirror, mirror outside my wall: reflexive impacts of insider/outsider collaborative inquiry on the insider researcher. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 59 (4). pp. 714-739. ISSN 1552-6879 doi: 10.1177/00218863231177486

Abstract/Summary

Based to a considerable extent on Margaret Archer’s (2007) approach to reflexive agency, we discuss a multi-year insider/outsider research collaboration that has taken place in a University-based Centre designed to bring academics and management practitioners together to conduct applied research and learn from each other. We focus in particular on the experiences of the insider researcher, showing how, based on her reflexive practice, the collaboration has led to both scholarly contributions and changes in practice in the Centre and her University. In doing so, we flesh out the importance of reflexivity and its important impacts in academic-practitioner collaborations. In long term insider/outsider collaborations that provide psychologically safe places, outsider researchers can metaphorically hold a mirror up to insider researchers that fosters their reflexivity and its subsequent impacts.

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Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > Leadership, Organisations, Behaviour and Reputation
Publisher	Sage
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