Two ships passing in the night? Practice and academia in public management

The article addresses the concerns raised about the growing divide between research and practice in public management. In-depth interviews were undertaken with academicians and practitioners, along with the analysis of secondary data and the review of the literature on knowledge production and collaborative research in the attempt of providing an empirical contribution on the nature and extent of the gap, its determinants and the attitudes of practitioners and academicians on the feasibility of possible solutions put forth by the literature.