The lack of mutual communication and collaboration between academic research and management practice, and the limited implementation of the research findings in strategic and tactical decision-making in practice settings, known as the science-practice ‘gap’, remains an essential issue in management research. We challenge the primary focus on academics for the possibilities of bridging the gap by arguing that the picture remains incomplete without a closer look at the positions, perceptions, and attitudes of practicing managers toward the joint production of relevant management knowledge. Based on the inductive, grounded theory approach, we conducted a qualitative study of 47 practicing managers with different organizational and functional responsibilities across various industry sectors. Although practitioners perceived practice-engaged research design and execution, relevant management research, and benefits from complementary knowledge as enablers of fruitful science-practice collaboration, our emerging findings revealed limited trust, limited cognition, coping strategies, and heuristic information processing to be important barriers for practitioners that hamper the collaboration process. Relying on the cognitive and information processing framework and theory of the conservation of resources, we aimed to explain the antecedent of (un)successful collaboration on the practitioners' side, thus extending our understanding of the scholarship of integration.

学术研究与管理实践之间缺乏相互沟通与协作，研究成果在实践环境中战略和战术决策的实施有限，被称为科学实践“差距”，仍然是管理研究的一个重要问题. 我们挑战主要关注学术以弥合差距的可能性，认为如果不仔细研究实践管理者对联合生产相关管理知识的立场、看法和态度，情况仍然不完整。基于归纳的、扎根的理论方法，我们对 47 位在各个行业部门具有不同组织和职能职责的执业经理进行了定性研究。尽管从业者认为实践参与的研究设计和执行、相关的管理研究以及从互补知识中获益是富有成效的科学实践合作的推动因素，但我们的新发现表明，有限的信任、有限的认知、应对策略和启发式信息处理是重要的障碍对于阻碍协作过程的从业者。依托认知和信息处理框架以及资源节约理论，我们旨在从实践者一方解释（不）成功合作的前因，从而扩展我们对整合学术的理解。我们的新发现表明，有限的信任、有限的认知、应对策略和启发式信息处理是阻碍合作过程的从业者的重要障碍。依托认知和信息处理框架以及资源节约理论，我们旨在从实践者一方解释（不）成功合作的前因，从而扩展我们对整合学术的理解。我们的新发现表明，有限的信任、有限的认知、应对策略和启发式信息处理是阻碍合作过程的从业者的重要障碍。依托认知和信息处理框架以及资源节约理论，我们旨在从实践者一方解释（不）成功合作的前因，从而扩展我们对整合学术的理解。