some possible action
the development of evidence-based approaches provides opportunities for OD practitioners to engage much more with mainstream theorizing in ways that can be productive for both groups.
it offers these opportunities in part because relatively little is known about how to create relationships among academics and management, or organizational, practitioners that will culminate in managers' clinical expertise informing the construction of syntheses.
in addition, as noted above, it will not be easy to convince practitioners actually to carry out actions based on the syntheses. skilled OD practitioner-scholars have considerable knowledge about how to foster relationships among different group that might be helpful in these endeavors.
i will suggest one possible way of doing this below. i will also suggest some ways this work may lead to conceptual contributions that may in form mainstream theorizing as well.