ABSTRACT
This chapter explicates the capacity for phronesis (practical judgment), so central for engaged scholarship and collaborative research to be impactful. It presents a brief overview of the GNOSIS approach to conducting management research lays the foundation for the essential principle of phronesis which could make such scholarship impactful. The chapter provides a summary of the lessons learned from collaborative research with the think tank ResPublica, which produced a major report launched in the British House of Lords. It focuses on the analysis of explaining the importance of "designing for impact" as a key focus of the ResPublica report. The process of producing the ResPublica report provided scope to better understand how the impact of collaborative management research may be extended. The chapter concludes by considering the implications of the capacity for phronesis in advancing and sustaining impactful scholarship as well as building on this capacity to restore trust across the professions.
