Theorizing for Positive Impact

for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this editorial.We also appreciate the thought-provoking program of the 2023 Micro Meets Macro Conference on the theme "Leading for Impact and Engaged Scholarship," organized by Christy Shropshire and her colleagues at Arizona State University.We acknowledge that such conferences-along with policy inclusive special issues and some management journals' renewed emphases on policy relevance and practice (e.g., Academy of Management Perspectives), as well as many of our colleagues' ongoing efforts to bridge management and policy in their scholarship, teaching, and public engagements-are critically important conduits to advancing the goal of theorizing for positive impact.Calls for management theory to have greater societal relevance abound.From editorial efforts to encourage research that can influence regulation and policy decisions (e.g., Haley et al., 2022), to regulatory practices that have incentivized scholarly impact on audiences outside of academia (e.g., Bryant, 2021), to grant-bestowing agencies that expect their funded research to benefit the public good (e.g., NSF's broader impacts), the relationship between theory and practice has been and continues to be of great concern