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Friesike, Sascha, Leonhard Dobusch, and Maximilian Heimstädt. "Striving for societal impact as an early-career researcher: Reflections on five common concerns." Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 79, (2022).

This paper discusses the opportunity costs associated with impact work, the fuzziness of current impact measurement, the challenge of incremental results, the actionability of research findings, and the risk of saying something wrong in public.