Knowledge Makers Muddling Through: Conditions for Documentation and Report Writing in Extra-academic Research

Knowledge making takes place in a variation of different organizational settings throughout society. Significant amounts of research is for example undertaken in commercial companies selling their research as a services. But what are the conditions for doing, documenting and reporting research in these settings? And how should we understand and integrate these increasingly available outcomes of extra-academic research with outcomes of research published traditionally? In this presentation I will talk about findings from a recent study of conditions for report writing in commercial archeology, and discuss how users of reports can benefit from insights gained in this study.