While executives are keen to harness organizational knowledge and improve business performance, the topic of how academics can produce rigorous and relevant theory in working relationships with practitioners is a much contested topic.

1. Reviewing the State of Academic Practitioner Relationships Section 1: Conceptual Challenges 2. Knowledge and Practice: A Historical Perspective on Collaborative Management Research 3. Insight and Reflection as Key to Collaborative Engagement 4. Who do We Identify With? Ontological and Epistemological Challenges of Spanning Different Domains of Academic-Practitioner Praxis 5. Connecting-Making Social Science Matter: The Collaborative and Boundary-Spanning Work of Intellectual Shamans 6. Narrative Foundations for Theorizing about Academic-Practitioner Relationships Section 2: Developing Capabilities 7. Developing Capabilities of Engaged Scholarship 8. Practices for Leveraging the Paradoxes of Engaged Scholarship 9. Is There Anybody in There? Reconceptualizing "Action" in Action Research 10. Learning the Craft: Developing Apprentice Scholars with the Capacity to Integrate Theory and Practice 11. The Capacity for Phronesis: Building Confidence through Curiosity to Cultivate Conscience as Central to the Character of Impactful Scholarship Section 3: Becoming and Being at Home in Both Worlds 12. My Liminal Life: Perpetual Journeys Across the Research-Practice Divide 13. Partnering to Advance Sustainable Effectiveness at the Center for Effective Organizations 14. Mind the Transformation Gap: Knowledge Exchange, Interests and Identity in Research-Practice Collaboration 15. How to Develop Scholar-Practitioner Interactions: Lessons from Management Concepts Developed through Collaboration Between Research and Practice (Guillaume Carton & Stephanie Dameron) 16. Making Values Matter: An Academic and Private Sector Collaboration 17. Sustaining the Interaction: The Henley Forum for Organisational Learning and Knowledge Strategies 18. Applied R&D in HR: Google's People Innovation Lab