Forward!

2006 ◽  
pp. 203-231
Author(s):  
Mark E. Nissen
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Dynamics

This chapter includes guidance for learning from the book and for continuing to develop new knowledge about principled organizational knowing and learning. We first summarize the principles developed in Section I of the book. The discussion turns then to applying such principles to harness knowledge dynamics in your organization. We summarize in turn the leadership mandates induced in Section II of the book. The chapter concludes with our outline of the critical research agenda in the area of knowledge flows and principled organizational knowing and learning.

Developing a Knowledge-Based Organizational Performance Model for Improving Knowledge Flows in Discontinuous Organizations

2011 ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Rahinah Ibrahim ◽  
Mark E. Nissen
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Performance Model ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Insight Into

Tacit knowledge attenuates particularly quickly in organizations that experience discontinuous membership: the coming and going of organizational roles or positions during a workflow process. Since knowledge flows enable workflows, and workflows drive performance, theory suggests that dynamic knowledge—particularly tacit knowledge—is critical for competitive advantage. This research seeks to extend established organization theory, through integration of emerging knowledge-flow theory, to inform the design of discontinuous organizations. Toward this end, we build a computational model based upon ethnographic study of an affordable housing project that experienced severe discontinuous membership. Analysis of this model reveals problematic theoretical gaps, and provides insight into how scholarly understanding of knowledge flows can extend organization theory to address discontinuous organizations. This research contributes new knowledge for designing knowledge-based organizations in discontinuous contexts.

Cold chains, interrupted

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Comes ◽  
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik ◽  
Bartel Van de Walle
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Vaccination Campaigns ◽  
Uncertainty Information ◽  
Chain Problem

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how far technology and information enable, facilitate or support the planning and implementation decisions in humanitarian vaccine cold chains for vaccination campaigns. The authors specifically focus on three emerging technologies that have the potential to create more flexible conditions in the field, and identify the need to further explore the link between uncertainty, information and irreversibility. Design/methodology/approach The authors present a basic structure for the analysis of cold chain disruptions in terms of three distinct yet connected layers of deficient infrastructure and capacity, information gaps and failures in decision making. The authors then review three humanitarian technologies and their impact on vaccine campaigns along these layers. From there, a research agenda is developed to address research gaps this review brought forward. Findings Three critical research gaps in the areas of technology innovation for humanitarian vaccine cold chain management are presented. The authors argue that technology to improve capacity, information and decisions need to be aligned, and that the areas of uncertainty, information and irreversibility require further investigation to achieve this alignment. In this way, the paper contributes to setting the research agenda on vaccine cold chains and connects humanitarian logistics to technology, information management and decision making. Originality/value This paper presents the humanitarian vaccine cold chain problem from an original angle by illuminating the implications of technology and information on the decisions made during the planning and implementation phases of a vaccine campaign. The authors develop an agenda to provide researchers and humanitarians with a perspective to improve cold chain planning and implementation at the intersection of technology, information and decisions.

scholarly journals A question of justice: Critically researching suicide with Indigenous studies of affect, biosociality, and land-based relations

2021 ◽  
pp. 136345932110468
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Ansloos ◽  
Shanna Peltier
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Methodological Approaches

This paper considers how Indigenous studies can inform the evolution of critical research on suicide. Aligned with critiques of mainstream suicidology, these methodological approaches provide a roadmap for structural analysis of complex systems and logics in which the phenomenon of suicide emerges. Moving beyond mere naming of social determinants of suicide and consistent with calls for a theory of justice within suicide research, Indigenous studies helps to advance conceptual knowledge of suicide in descriptive means and enhance ethical responses to suicide beyond psychocentric domains. Through centering Indigenous theories of affect, biosociality, and land-based relations, this article examines what new knowledge of suicide can emerge, as well as what ethical responses are possible to suicide and to a world where suicide exists. This new knowledge can inform practices for critical suicide studies which are invested in resisting structural violence, nourish agency, dignity and freedom for those living and dying in often-unlivable presents, and enhancing livability for individuals, communities, and the environment living under shadows of empire. Implications for theory, ethics, and suicide research and prevention practice are considered.

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