TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose As an exploration of how “impact” might be reconsidered, the purpose of this paper is to suggest that current contemporary understandings of “impact” fail practice and research by obscuring the space for reflexive criticality that is crucial for an individual or organisation to flourish. That it thus leads to an already predefined enculturated understanding of “impact”.Design/methodology/approach Offering some interrogation and folkloristic analogy of the meaning of “impact”, three brief expositions of differing arts-based práxes concerned mainly with reflection and connection, are then discussed through the lens of Ricœur’s et al. (1978) conflation of the hermeneutical process with phenomenology.Findings It is suggested that the implications of restoring, refreshing, or representing “impact” give license to a personal/professional revitalisation, and that reformulating an understanding of “impact” through re/search might offer a potential pedagogic tool, and alternative organising feature.Originality/value Through the introduction of inter-disciplinary thinking and práxes, the paper offers novel autoethnographic arts-based methods for personal, professional and organisational development and growth.
VL  - 9
IS  - 2
SN  - 2205-2062
DO  - 10.1108/JWAM-07-2017-0022
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/JWAM-07-2017-0022
AU  - Poole Simon Ellis
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Re/searching for “impact”
T2  - Journal of Work-Applied Management
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 147
EP  - 158
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -