Figure 1.
The enablers and barriers for research impact are organised across the categories Strategy, Initiatives, Resources, and Culture. Enablers contains the groups Designing, Incentivising, and Measuring. Strategy includes Mission emphasising societal contribution, Strategic research themes aligned with impact, and Mission-aligned assessment criteria. Initiatives includes Broadened promotion and tenure criteria, Recognise policy, industry, community engagement, and Evaluate diverse engagement activities. Resources includes Internal funding schemes and workloads for impact research, Seed grants for interdisciplinary work, and Track stakeholder engagement outcomes. Culture includes Norms valuing engagement and mentoring alongside rigour, Celebrate impactful scholarship publicly, and Pluralistic approaches to impact pathways. Barriers includes Performative impact with the subtitle Narratives over substance, System gaming with the subtitle Strategic compliance focus, Oversimplified metrics with the subtitle Narrow indicator sets, Metric substitution with the subtitle New K P Is, same problems, and Extrinsic motivation with the subtitle Rewards over genuine intent.Business school research environment for enabling social impact
Source: Authors’ own work