Professional, scholar, or knowledge worker? Identity construction of Chinese management researchers amid the research–practice gap

• Shubo Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Busines School, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

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• Mengna Lv,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Busines School, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9331-4864

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• Qiuli Huang ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 2018211028@email.cufe.edu.cn

  Affiliation Busines School, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2963-5829

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• Yiduo Wang

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

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