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5. Fostering innovation and looking ahead

Many of the barriers identified here cannot be directly influenced within the PSM community. The field of PSM does however have several advantages which can be exploited. The practice-oriented nature of the field means we are well positioned to respond to calls for research to have greater impact on practice and policy. (See for example Meehan et al.) This could be advanced further by adopting and developing participatory and action research methods. Significant recent advances in producing research that is methodologically rigorous and based on strong theoretical foundations mean PSM academics can have greater confidence and capability, and a sound basis for learning and innovation. Besides the opportunities from big data and data archiving, PSM scholars could do more to mine the rich resource of organizations’ purchasing data. Last but not least, learning and innovation in the PSM research process can be actively fostered by individual PSM academics, through their own research but also through their other roles in the community – as mentors of early career researchers, as research student supervisors, and as journal reviewers and editors. It is incumbent on us all in our various roles to improve awareness of the barriers and enablers and seek ways to break from the detrimental, self-reinforcing cycles outlined above.