Knowledge co-production within academic-practitioner research collaborations is a promising means to address the pressing issue of research impact. Yet current theorising is hampered by a limited appreciation of power in the relationship between research partners. In this study, we explore various types of power and their effects on knowledge co-production in government-funded research collaborations. Drawing on interviews with academics and practitioners working on Australian Research Council Linkage Scheme projects, we initially document the prominence of structural and normative types of power, alongside resource power. We further show that both structural and normative power fail to conform to key principles of knowledge co-production. As a result, many of the projects studied fell short of the knowledge co-production ideal. Our investigation leads us to identify a boundary condition: knowledge co-production theory in its current form is bounded by resource power conditions. Our expanded perspective provides for an elaboration of knowledge co-production theory. We also explore the implications of our findings for business schools in search of impact.

学术从业人员研究合作中的知识共同生产是解决紧迫的研究影响问题的有前途的手段。然而，当前的理论受到研究伙伴之间关系的有限了解的阻碍。在这项研究中，我们探索了各种类型的权力及其在政府资助的研究合作中对知识联合生产的影响。通过对从事澳大利亚研究委员会链接计划项目的学者和从业人员的采访，我们首先记录了结构性和规范性权力以及资源权力的重要性。我们进一步表明，结构性权力和规范性权力均未符合知识共同生产的关键原则。结果，许多研究的项目达不到知识联合生产的理想。我们的研究使我们确定了一个边界条件：当前形式的知识联合生产理论受资源动力条件的限制。我们扩展的视角提供了知识协同生产理论的详尽阐述。我们还将探索研究结果对商学院的影响，以寻找影响。