20701: Impact Narratives: Strategies and Tactics for Success

Saturday, July 26, 2025

11:15 - 13:15 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B6-m2

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Practice,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/jPdgQg

Organizer(s)

FC

Federico Caniato

Politecnico di Milano, Italy
GG

Gary Graham

Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
JR

Jens Roehrich

U. of Bath, United Kingdom

Panelist(s)

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Lisa Ellram

Miami U., United States
WT

Wendy Tate

U. of Tennessee, United States
NJ

Nitin Joglekar

-, United States
TN

Torbjørn H. Netland

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ETH, Switzerland
VP

Vincent Peters

Tilburg University, Netherlands

Strong impact narratives are increasingly driving policymakers’ and business leaders’ decisions to invest in collaborations with scholars, and are, in turn, an enabler of academic career paths. Rapid evolution in information and communication technologies, the adoption of AI capabilities, continual adaptions in business models, de-globalization, and variations in public policies and regulations add to complexities in managerial decision-making and related research contexts. To remain successful in a fast-changing and complex world, scholars thus need to rethink their own impact and knowledge exchange strategies and tactics, including building a research agenda that is informed by (and informs) practice and policy. The PDW is designed to support participants in the development process of the impact narratives for their research projects in collaboration with business practice and policy making, including the writing of impact articles from ideation through to publication. We will also discuss prime examples of papers presented in the Impact Pathways (IP) section of the International Journal of Operations & Production Management (IJOPM) as an example of developing insights and impactful research agendas driven by real-world phenomena. These insights are crucial for academic understanding, advancing the OSCM’s body of knowledge, identifying future research questions and avenues, and paving the way for impact and knowledge exchange activities.