TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to revisit the scholarly impact agenda in the context of work-based and workplace research, and to propose new directions for research and practice.Design/methodology/approach This paper combines a contemporary literature review with case vignettes and reflections from practice to develop more nuanced understandings, and highlights future directions for making sense of impact in the context of work-based learning research approaches.Findings This paper argues that three dimensions to making sense of impact need to be more nuanced in relation to workplace research: interactional elements of workplace research processes have the potential for discursive pathways to impact, presence (and perhaps non-action) can act as a pathway to impact, and the narrative nature of time means that there is instability in making sense of impact over time.Research limitations/implications The paper proposes a number of implications for practitioner-researchers, universities/research organisations, and focusses on three key areas: the amplification of research ethics in workplace research, the need for axiological shifts towards sustainability and the need to explicate axiological orientation in research.Originality/value This paper offers a contemporary review of the international impact debate in the specific context of work-based and workplace research approaches.
VL  - 9
IS  - 2
SN  - 2205-2062
DO  - 10.1108/JWAM-07-2017-0018
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/JWAM-07-2017-0018
AU  - Wall Tony
AU  - Bellamy Lawrence
AU  - Evans Victoria
AU  - Hopkins Sandra
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Revisiting impact in the context of workplace research: a review and possible directions
T2  - Journal of Work-Applied Management
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 95
EP  - 109
Y2  - 2024/09/19
ER  -