Practical Experience: Building Bridges Between Science and Practice

Franklin, Aimee L.; Ebdon, Carol

doi:10.1080/10841806.2005.11029516

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“…The basic assertion is that multiple kinds of knowledge are needed for theoretical advancement and to address complex social problems successfully (Alker, 2001(Alker, , 2004Brady, 2004;Farmer, 2008Farmer, , 2010Schwartz-Shea, 2001. For example, some public administration scholars argue that there are legitimate sources of knowledge that are not technical or scientific in nature (Franklin & Ebdon, 2005;Hummel, 1991;Schmidt, 1993;Schon, 1991). These forms of knowledge are based on practical reason that bridges the natural sciences and the humanities by considering the tacit knowledge of political, normative, moral, and aesthetic reasoning (Alker, 2004;White & Adams, 1994a).…”

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Preparing Public Administration Scholars for Qualitative Inquiry: A Status Report

Stout¹

2013

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This paper reiterates in succinct form the discipline's discussion of how qualitative inquiry stands to contribute substantively to public affairs knowledge and why it is therefore a necessary skill to develop as scholars in the field and its cognates; public administration, public policy, and political science. It then presents empirical data on doctoral research methods requirements collected in 2004-2005 and 2011-2012 to demonstrate that while preparation in qualitative inquiry is improving, at least one-third of the doctoral programs associated with NASPAA-accredited Master of Public Administration degree programs still fail to prepare candidates in qualitative inquiry. Therefore, the discussion is still relevant and doctoral programs are encouraged to continue curricular reform and enhancement. Furthermore, scholars are encouraged to continue research on research in public administration.

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Section: Methodological Pluralismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preparing Public Administration Scholars for Qualitative Inquiry: A Status Report

Stout¹

2013

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“…These drivers point to a changing research landscape that is framing the gap between theory and practice as a knowledge production problem rather than a knowledge transfer issue or a problem of viewing theory and practice as two distinct forms of knowledge. Similar views are reflected more widely in social science (Jeffrey 2003), management (Burgoyne and James 2006; Pettigrew 2001; Van de Ven and Johnson 2006), information systems (Ramiller and Pentland 2009), and public management (Franklin and Ebdon 2005; Hendriks 2003) fields, providing insights for theorizing practice and practicing theory.…”

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confidence: 78%

Assembling E‐Government Research Designs: A Transdisciplinary View and Interactive Approach

Hardy

Williams

2011

Public Administration Review

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Hardy is a senior lecturer in the Business School at the University of Sydney. Her research is directed toward assisting organizations in the development of an information capability. Drawing from the fi elds of information policy, IT governance, risk, and assurance, her research interests focus on the complex interplay between ICT innovation, organizational change, and regulation. Recent projects have applied this work in e-government and critical infrastructure organizations. She also has a strong commitment to refl exive and casebased methodologies. Communication Technology (CAICT) at Copenhagen Business School. Her research uses theories of socio-technical change and practice to investigate enterprise information management and to understand the ways in which organizations achieve an information capability.

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“…Raadschelder's call has been adopted by other public administration literature, which promotes the use of the four traditions to bridge the disconnect between literature and practice (Franklin & Ebdon, 2005), providing examples where the disconnect has increased through the introduction of literature from multiple domains (Kettl, 1999). The following section introduces the four traditions and outlines my rationale for selecting one of the traditions for my research into bridging the gap between governance literature and practice in the public sector.…”

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“…Relativist perspectives are subjective and develop understanding through interpretation of an aspect of reality to uncover and explore values, traditions and culture (Raadschelders, 2008(Raadschelders, , 2011. Researchers deconstruct situations to describe rather than provide prescriptive findings as values are contradictory (Franklin & Ebdon, 2005).…”

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“…Practical experience provides research that illustrates the challenges facing government and attempts to bridge the gap between academic literature and practice by exploring real world situations and designing methods to improve practice using available theory (Raadschelders, 2011). The objective of practical experience is identifying the best method for implementation of policy and to make technical refinements to practice (Franklin & Ebdon, 2005;Orr & Bennett, 2012). Confirmation that multidisciplinary research is suitable for public administration, as a multidisciplinary domain, provided me with confidence to proceed.…”

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Surmounting Boundaries: Closing The Governance Gap Governance Arrangements In Public Sector Ict Shared Services

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<p>Hundreds of millions of dollars of public money have been spent creating Public Sector ICT Shared Services (PSISS) based on expectations of improved customer service and cost reduction. Unfortunately, the promised benefits have often failed to materialise and governance has been identified as a barrier to PSISS success. The research first locates the concerns that governance, and in particular arrangements for governing PSISS, is contributing to PSISS failure in the academic and practice literatures on PSISS governance. Our current knowledge of PSISS governance is principally informed by literature from three domains: management, public administration and information systems. These domains, to an extent, exist in silos with unique traditions, perspectives and knowledge claims. As a result, how it informs the governance of PSISS could be at best unhelpful and even confusing to practitioners. This state of knowledge is not assisted by “how to govern” guides that obscure their different theoretical origins and do not appear to address the complexity of PSISS governance. Despite this apparent lack of coherent frameworks in the academic and practice literatures, practitioners are expected to use this literature to develop governance arrangements and perform effective PSISS governance. This lack of coherence led me to ask my first research question: How do practitioners perceive PSISS governance in practice? Exploring how PSISS governance occurs in practice through the lived experience of PSISS governance practitioners led me to select grounded theory as an appropriate methodology and research design to examine 20 years of governance practice for an electronic identity (E-ID) PSISS in New Zealand. My grounded theory of practice enabled construction of a public sector governance model to explore vertical and collaborative governance arrangements through three perspectives: system strategy, delivery and assurance. The model has been extended to provide a system-wide public sector governance lens, which was used to reflexively explore current academic literature and seven practitioner informed critical public sector governance issues to answer my refined secondary research question: How have governance arrangements addressed critical issues in public sector governance?</p>

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Practical Experience: Building Bridges Between Science and Practice

Cited by 13 publications

References 38 publications

Preparing Public Administration Scholars for Qualitative Inquiry: A Status Report

Preparing Public Administration Scholars for Qualitative Inquiry: A Status Report

Assembling E‐Government Research Designs: A Transdisciplinary View and Interactive Approach

Surmounting Boundaries: Closing The Governance Gap Governance Arrangements In Public Sector Ict Shared Services

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