Table 3

(Non)-dominant identity, identity work and brokerage practices of pracademics as KYYs

Social identity perceptionsIdentity workBrokerage practicesIdentity type of pracademics
Dominant identity (Wang, Ma and Dong)
  • ➢

    Resolving the competing social identities by choosing the practitioners’ identity and discourses

  • ➢

    No tensions between professional and personal value emerged

Problem-solving and connecting brokerage workPractitioners
Non-dominant identityIntersected identity (Lee, Han, Yu, Jia and Shan)
  • ➢

    Gradually resolving the tension between practice and academia by consciously connecting the practice with research

  • ➢

    Continuously unresolving the tensions between professional and personal value as encountering with pracademic contexts

Bridging, representing and solution-seeking brokerage workPractitioners-Scholar
Merged identity (Lan and Huan)
  • ➢

    Mediating the tension between practice and academia by understanding the unique value of pracademics

  • ➢

    Continuously resolving the tensions to reconstruct professional identity by refocusing work with the original need

Consulting, coordinating and innovation-seeking brokerage workScholar-Practitioner or Pracademics

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