scholarly journals Anticipation and Organization: Seeing, knowing and governing futures

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 263178772110203
Author(s):  
Mikkel Flyverbom ◽  
Christina Garsten
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Organizational Processes ◽  
Anticipatory Governance ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Knowledge Based

Anticipation is part of organizational attempts to manage their future affairs and shape their surroundings. Still, the ways in which organizations engage in anticipation have not been sufficiently conceptualized in the field of organization and management studies. This article conceptualizes organizational ways of shaping and orchestrating futures by engaging insights from Foucauldian scholarship that highlight the intersection between what we can see, know and govern. We highlight the importance of processes of knowledge production in governance efforts, and articulate how anticipatory governance is crafted through intricate combinations of resources such as narratives, numbers and digital traces. The main contribution is a conceptual typology outlining four different templates for anticipatory governance in organizational settings that we term ‘indicative snapshots’, ‘prognostic correlations’, ‘projected transformations’ and ‘phantasmagoric fictions’. We posit anticipatory governance as a knowledge-based, performative phenomenon that addresses potential and desirable futures in and between organizations. Such anticipatory activities gauge and guide organizational processes and modes of thinking and acting along different temporal orientations, and have governance effects that makes anticipation performative by its very nature. This understanding of anticipatory governance, we suggest, offers both conceptual contributions and empirical avenues for research in organization and management studies.

scholarly journals A Relational Foundation of Knowledge Production: Advice-Seeking in Knowledge-Based Organizations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Máté Baksa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Advice Seeking

In the past decade, the revolutionary advancement of technology brought the attention of academics and management practitioners to the innovative capability of organizations. Companies in knowledgeintensive industries increasingly focus on their ability of self-renewal and adaptation. Concurrently, organizational processes that support the amassment, management, sharing, and employment of knowledge have grown in importance. Organizational social network analysis provides the apparatus to explore knowledge networks in organizations by identifying relationships through which knowledge and information flow. Advice-seeking relationships have an essential role in knowledge production as they enable actors to acquire information, professional support, and knowledge elements they can recombine to form new knowledge. Advice-seeking always assumes trust between actors: by asking for help, one necessarily exposes their weakness to the other. What other relational conditions might there be of advice-seeking in organizational knowledge networks? What are the prerequisites for asking for help? In this paper, I examine the case of two knowledge-based organizations, both located in Hungary: (1) a business services center (390 employees) that offers professional services to B2B partners and (2) a higher education institution (583 employees). I analyzed data collected by a Budapest-based management consultancy that specializes in organizational social network research. I found that most independent variables were significant in the regression models. However, there was a notable difference between each variable’s relative explanatory power in the two cases. While process- and decisionrelated relationships seemed essential in the business services center, informal communication and interpersonal trust were more critical for advice-seeking relationships to form in the higher education institution.

scholarly journals Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Africa Embracing the “New Normal” for Knowledge Production and Innovation: Barriers, Realities, and Possibilities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B. Mugimu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Ict Literacy ◽  
Centers Of Excellence ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy

If Africa is to remain relevant and competitive in today’s knowledge-based economy, it has to rely on higher education institutions (HEIs) as centers of excellence for knowledge production. HEIs nurture and sustain the production of highly-skilled individuals to support Africa’s growing economies. Among all possible ways, this could be achievable through strategic curricula innovation driven by emerging mobile technologies. Consequently, Africa’s HEIs need to embrace the ‘New Normal’ by optimizing online teaching and learning in their pursuit to expand information and communications technology (ICT) literacy as a means to increase students’ opportunities in higher education (HE). However, Africa’s ability to embrace the ‘New Normal’ has been marred by inadequate ICT infrastructures, low connectivity, unreliable power supply, and national budget constraints that may undermine Africa’s HEIs’ potential to augment knowledge production and innovation.

Anticipating and Addressing the Politicization of Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 109442812096988
Author(s):  
Mohamed Chelli ◽  
Ann L. Cunliffe
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Ideological Differences ◽  
Conducting Research

We examine an underaddressed issue in organizational research, the nature of the politicization of knowledge and its consequences for conducting research. Drawing on an illustrative case from a PhD research study and the underutilized theory of politicization, we go beyond previous work on politics in organization and management research to offer three contributions. First, we develop a process model underscoring the potentially emergent and interwoven nature of the politicization of research. In particular, we suggest politicization be seen as a trajectory of moments of difference in which researchers may or may not be aware of the potential political significance. Second, we offer four analytical resources to help researchers make sense around why politicization may occur: disputes over the “ownership” of knowledge, clashes of representational logics, ideological differences, and identity struggles. Third, we argue that politicization can be a catalyst, rather than an obstacle, for knowledge production and propose ways of anticipating and negotiating differences. Our aim is to raise awareness of the importance of understanding and anticipating the politicized situations researchers may encounter in their work.

Knowledge Co-Production and Sustainable Socio-Economic Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Robert Tweheyo
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
The Impact

This chapter illuminates the significance of researcher-practitioner engagement in knowledge production and the impact it has on socioeconomic development. Knowledge production and sharing have a significant impact on the transformation of society. It highlights the importance of knowledge co-production through engaged scholarship research that achieves the twin goals of rigor and relevance. Engaged scholarship research creates a more pleasant relationship between scholars, non-academic practitioners and communities in creation of knowledge. This research approach however, is rarely applied in many research institutions and universities. Engaged scholarship research approach is therefore preferred because it empowers local communities to participate and contribute in making decisions that affect their lives. The chapter concludes by reiterating collaboration and stakeholder involvement that generate knowledge based on practical experiences and which are mutually beneficial and relevant in solving society problems.

Mapping Empire: Knowledge Production and Government in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nour Nicole Dados
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Government Administration ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Ruling Elites ◽  
Demographic Methods

Many studies of the nineteenth century Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have been concerned with the economic, social and political influence exerted by European colonial governments through the accumulation of knowledge about the region and its subsequent military domination. The case of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century demonstrates that European techniques of knowledge production were also strategically adopted by ruling elites outside the colonial metropolises. Ottoman adoption of European technologies and techniques were politically entwined with the empire’s territorial claims against nascent nationalisms and a calculated move towards knowledge-based forms of government administration in the quest to hold onto power. Cartographic and demographic methods used by the Ottomans produced new assemblages of territory and population that profoundly reshaped the objective of government and the conduct of imperial administration. Statistics and geography became the choice tools of social progress and advancement, underpinning the numerous reforms of the nineteenth century aimed at rationalisation and centralisation.

Textual Agency: How Texts Do Things in Organizational Settings

Organization ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Cooren
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Organizational Processes ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Mode Of Being ◽  
Modern Form ◽  
Active Contribution

Research on organizational discourse typically reduces it to what members do when producing and using texts in organizational contexts, but fails to recognize that texts, on their own, also seem to make a difference. This essay shows that one way to approach discourse is to analyze the active contribution of texts (especially, but not only, documents) to organizational processes, that is, to what extent texts such as reports, contracts, memos, signs, or work orders can be said to be performing something. After reviewing what other scholars have been saying on the question of textual agency, I show how it is possible to ascribe to texts the capacity of doing something without falling into some modern form of animism. Having done that, I explore systematically the different types of action that texts can be said to be performing by taking up Searle’s well-known classification of speech acts. This review then leads me to address questions related to the constitution of organizations, that is, to what extent this reflection on textual agency enables us to redefine the mode of being of organizational forms.

scholarly journals Celebrating the End of Enlightenment: Organization Theory in the Age of the Anthropocene and Gaia (and why neither is the solution to our ecological crisis)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 263178772110367
Author(s):  
Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee ◽  
Diane-Laure Arjaliès
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Indigenous Worldviews ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Western Scholarship ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

This article aims to change the terms of the conversation about the ecological crisis. We argue that the human–nature dualism, a product of Enlightenment thought and primarily responsible for the ecological crisis, cannot be the basis for any meaningful solutions. We show how more recent Western imaginaries like the Anthropocene and Gaia proposed to overcome the separation of nature from culture are also based on exclusions that reflect Enlightenment rationality and legacies of colonialism. In sharp contrast, we show that Indigenous philosophies that preceded the Enlightenment by thousands of years have developed systems of knowledge based on a relational ontology that reflects profound connections between humans and nature. We demonstrate that such forms of knowledge have been systematically subjugated by Western scholarship based on arguments inspired by Enlightenment ideals of rationality and empiricism. A decolonial imagination will be able to generate new insights into understanding and addressing the ecological crisis. We therefore call for organization and management scholars to challenge the anthropomorphic biases and the economism that dominates our field through a respectful engagement with Indigenous worldviews.

scholarly journals The structure and content of the athlets` exercise at the stage of direct preparation for the main start

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-113
Author(s):  
V. Terechenko
Keyword(s):  
Technical Training ◽  
Organizational Processes ◽  
High Class ◽  
National Team ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Direct Preparation ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Level ◽  
Preparatory Exercises

In the works on the organization and management of training athletes at the high-end competitive stage shows that in many ways the success of the athlete performances linked with the right science-based predictions can influence the organizational processes of formation of athletics team. The quality and accuracy of these decisions, the responsibility for their adoption is increasing even more at the stage of immediate preparation for the main start. There are reviewed and analyzed in the article the stages of sportsmen`s preparation before competition of dogfight, specific features of sportsmen`s preparation to competition. The problem of bringing athletes to competition is one of the most important in sports training. It has great practical value. The competitive period is characterized by the fact that the athlete must for a long time maintain a high level of special physical, technical training, which was provided for in the preparatory period. This can be achieved by using competitive and close to them special preparatory exercises. The racing period is characterized by the fact that the athlete must maintain for a long time a high level of special physical and technical training. The work on organizing and managing the training of high-class athletes at the competitive stage shows that in many respects the success of the athlete's performance is related to the correct scientific-based forecasts that allow to influence the organizational processes of forming a national team. In the works on the organization and management of training of a high-class athlete at the competitive stage was shown that in many respects the success of the athlete’s performance is connected with the correct scientifically-based forecasts that allow influencing the organizational processes of forming the national team. The quality and accuracy of these decisions, the responsibility for their decision even more increase at the stage of immediate preparation for the main start.

Knowledge-Based Decision Making

2018 ◽  
pp. 160-184
Author(s):  
Mirjana Pejic-Bach ◽  
Mislav Ante Omazic ◽  
Ana Aleksic ◽  
Jovana Zoroja
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Organizational Capabilities ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Knowledge Based

In the context of sustainability and long term survival, knowledge based decision making has been recognized as a significant factor. Its application in organizational settings specifically through knowledge management, process management, and decision making presents one of the core organizational capabilities. This chapter explores more deeply the synergy that occurs between the knowledge based decision making and its contribution to sustainability. The extent of knowledge based decision making application is evaluated, and its relation to the economic, social and environmental sustainability, in the multi case analysis of four Croatian firms from two service industries: telecommunications and insurance.

South African Women's Rural Development and E-Commerce

2005 ◽  
pp. 646-652
Author(s):  
Jo Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Civic Involvement ◽  
Organizational Processes ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Pervasive Applications

Increasingly, social, economic, and political progress is linked with the ability of countries to make informed, knowledge-based decisions with ICTs performing an increasingly crucial role in many societies in this regard. While the potentially transformative nature of ICTs suggests an unprecedented opportunity to overcome existing social divisions and inequalities, the role of ICTs in development is suffused with contradiction and paradox (Morales-Gomez & Melesse, 1998; Marcelle, 2002). The panoply of recent technological innovation along with the convergence of content, computing, and telecommunications has created new and pervasive applications, such as e-commerce and e-marketing, all of which can impact significantly on organizational processes. While it seems to be a common a priori assumption that ICTs can “empower” individuals and increase levels of social interaction and civic involvement (D’Allesandro & Dosa, 2001), little effort, so far, has been made to understand both the changes enabled by the new technologies, and how they can be meaningfully applied to an African rural trading context.

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