With the latest reflections on activities with Social Media and
online learning, it made me reflect on my current academic research and studies
while conducting my own dissertation project, exploring empirical facts and
situations from a number of business practical perspectives, considering those
with analysis, comparisons and findings. These in turn are to be extracted and
refined, on the way to being transformed into reliable academic hypotheses and
theories for the benefit of academia in defining better solutions for
principles in practices.
Of course, this is all interesting and illuminating, however, as I
am about to hand in my final paper, it made me wonder how much in fact
organisations and the world of everyday business is actually making the most
out of the learned research and accumulated knowledge of the academic world? Are the
essence of results and findings truly taken advantage of on a much wider scale
in public and private institutional business? How close are hypotheses
and ground breaking theories being implemented on the ground in corporate
management practices and included in business strategies?
In a highly digitalised world where a hybrid virtual life is
taking hold in every facet of our existence, realities are still being faced on
the streets. This leaves us wondering how much is actually being taken on board
in achieving better decision-making, impacting positively on the quality of
life lived, and as such, the value given to each person as employee or employer;
as teacher, student or worker; as benefactor, consumer and end user. After all,
as contributing citizens we are all stakeholders here! After
elaborate seminars and extensive work done during organised conferences in open
dialogues and concrete follow up between the two social and intellectual giants
(i.e. corporate and academia), it really all depends on how far would the
problematic urgencies explored, and the solutions proposed, are taken further
and beyond the hype of the moment, once the chairs forming the panel turned
empty and cold.
These days a paternalistic approach would be very hard to
maintain. In fact, it is no longer viable as knowledge and know-how is far from
being the privilege of the few in our fast connective highly informed digital
world. And the more we know, the more we start to question these days! The idea
is that the questioning on any side should be kept open to constructive debate
and further engaging exchange. Efforts from both sides, business and academia,
are certainly needed in keeping tight links, extended connections and ongoing
collaborations in open dialogues. These are indeed vital, should the world
along its citizens truly benefit from each and every profitable creation,
unique discipline and skilful specialisations. These would be fuelling further
academic research and business growth, minimising errors made in damaging
business entanglements and bad practices; thus better supporting and
encouraging proactive, inclusive and joint work done at every level in building
true progress for the 21st century.
With much better equipped, learned,
efficient, and engaged future generations on the road to economic
sustainability, leading collectively towards national prosperity should
definitely be a joy to celebrate with the many rather than the few!
Notes: These
are mostly comments made and posted at the following LSE blog post July 20th:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/07/08/engaging-people-in-making-history/#author
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