Valuing a Multiplicity of Views

2011 ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
Patrice Dunckley ◽  
Suzanne Roff-Wexler
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Visual Mapping

This chapter provides perspective and practical techniques that individuals and organizations can use to maximize knowledge transfer efforts. It illustrates the importance of using informal sources of information sharing to create a complete picture. The authors assert that using the traditional formal channels of transfer can leave holes when attempting to share the whole. Overall, the chapter offers practical, easily executable solutions that individuals can apply and that leaders can teach to fill the gaps that often go unnoticed. Influenced by sense making, storytelling, psychology, and visual mapping, the authors offer tools and provide coaching for using the tools, contained in text boxes throughout the chapter. The intent is to both introduce concepts and make them straightforward for the reader to implement.

Social capital, relational learning, and performance of suppliers

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Badri Munir Sukoco ◽  
Hardi Hardi ◽  
Alfiyatul Qomariyah
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Relational Learning ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Content Type ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The relationship between buyers and suppliers over the years – social practices – facilitate the development of social capital (SC), and it contributes to the relationship performance (RP) for both parties. The purpose of this paper is to examine the mechanisms that transform SC into RP. By exercising the relationship learning (joint sense-making, information sharing, and knowledge integration), this paper proposes that SC will transform into RP. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative study was employed in this study. Questionnaires were distributed to first-tier supplier of Astra Group (Astra International) in Indonesia. In total, 211 questionnaires were used for data analysis in this study. Findings The results exhibit that cognitive and structural SC contribute to the development of relational SC. Further, relational SC was positively associated with joint sense-making, which then goes through information sharing, knowledge integration, and finally RP. Research limitations/implications The cross-sectional data in a specific context (a firm) in Indonesia serve as a major limitation of this study. The development of SC and learning as a social process might not be captured well by using the current method – surveys. Furthermore, a major problem is caused by a one-sided survey that depends on the suppliers’ perceptions and judgments of relationship learning and performance. Practical implications The results suggest that managers and other relationship actors would benefit from the competency to develop practices and activities with suppliers regarding developing trust. The trust development is facilitated by having common understanding and interactions regularly, either by participating in formal and/or informal activities with suppliers. Building consensus – joint sense-making, between buyers and suppliers are crucial practices in relationship learning before knowledge sharing and knowledge integration practices are in place. And finally, managers should actively integrate this knowledge in order to increase their RP. Originality/value This study empirically tests the supply chain practice view as a new theoretical perspective in the supply chain management literature. It also extends the utilization of social practices – SC – since it is crucial in a buyer-supplier relationship. It also presents that relationship learning is a mechanism that could transform SC into RP, and thus bridge the SC and collaborative learning theory. Finally, this study indicates that inside relational learning, there are sequences of joint sense-making-information sharing-knowledge integration, before it moves on to RP.

scholarly journals Lost in translation: transferring knowledge from research to clinical practice

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 250-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Knowledge Translation ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Concepts Of Knowledge ◽  
New Treatment ◽  
Lost In Translation

SummaryUsing a new treatment is not an instantaneous act. There is a gap between research and practice and carefully evaluated evidence often fails to achieve widespread use. Various factors intercede along the pathway from knowledge generation to knowledge utilisation. These can hinder, or indeed facilitate, the use of research evidence in psychiatry. Knowledge translation is a discipline that attempts to identify and understand these barriers and facilitators to knowledge transfer. In this article, the terminology and key concepts of knowledge translation will be outlined, the evidence transfer pipeline described and obstacles and facilitators to uptake of evidence explored. The article also identifies sources of information on knowledge transfer. Innovative approaches designed to enhance the uptake of evidence from research, such as summaries, systematic reviews and targeted messaging, are also described.

Knowledge Transfer Offices in the Context of Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergej Lugović ◽  
Frane Šesnić ◽  
Miran Sladić
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Knowledge Spillover ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Spillover Theory ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Knowledge Spillover Theory ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
The Eu

Paper will present aspects of the knowledge transfer offices (KTO) from the EU Knowledge Transfer Study report through the prism of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (KSTE). It will also add the argument, based on the existing literature that in fact, knowledge couldn’t be managed but only the information resources can. This paper contributes to the on-going research Secondary Experience which main aim is to explore avenues for designing an information system that will support better use of the existing scientific papers between universities and their environment, including public, private and civil sector. There is a limited number of the EU wide research on the EU universities Knowledge transfer offices but existing one is sending not very promising results. In the last EU, a report addressing KTO not even one hypothesis addressing KTO related policies is accepted, and one of the hardest parts in conducting research was to find the contacts of the KTO’s. It is aligned with results from the master thesis of one of the authors where sources of information were analysed in terms of the transparency of the projects and their funding related information among 466 universities in the Danube region. That alerted us and opened up a completely new set of questions. In this paper, we use secondary data as content for our research.

Sense making in complex health situations

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 789-805
Author(s):  
Sharon Naveh ◽  
Jenny Bronstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Personal Health Information ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pregnancy And Birth

Purpose Using a sense making approach, the purpose of this paper is to examine the role that virtual health communities play as a source of informational and social support for pregnant diabetic women. The paper helps to understand how women suffering from a critical medical condition (i.e. diabetes during pregnancy and birth) manage a complex health situation. Design/methodology/approach The data sample consisted of 507 posts collected from a virtual health community for diabetic pregnant women. Data were analysed deductively looking for different expressions of normality and different types of health information about diabetes. Findings Content analysis revealed four themes that reflect the process that diabetic women go through from their attempts to conceive through pregnancy and birth. The findings show that for women dealing with a chronic illness such as diabetes, the breakdown of normal was the beginning of the pregnancy that prompted a new range of informational and emotional needs. The members of the community negotiated a socially constructed sense of normality and tried to empower other members with a new sense of normal by sharing information about their births. The findings also showed that members of the community disclosed personal health information to elicit medical information, advice and social support from other members. Originality/value The study highlighted the significance of sense-making processes in managing complex health situations and the value of virtual communities as sources of information and social support as to resolve discontinuities in the management of their illnesses.

Never Use One When Two Will Do *The first two authors contributed equally to this paper.

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Koch ◽  
Anja Strobel ◽  
Robert Miller ◽  
Annegret Garten ◽  
Christin Cimander ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Combined Approach ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Job Requirements ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Incremental Value

The multi-method and multi-perspective approach is recommended for job analyses to ensure the validity of the assessment process, but has not been sufficiently addressed in studies so far. Therefore, the effects of a combined approach concerning two time perspectives (present- vs. future-oriented) and two sources of information (incumbents vs. supervisors) were analyzed in four independent job analyses. Across all four samples both time perspectives as well as both sources of information made a substantial contribution to the behavior descriptions of the resulting requirement profiles, indicating that a more complete picture of the job requirements results from the use of a multi-perspective approach. Logistic regression revealed an incremental value of combining both sources of information, and both time perspectives, respectively. This underlines demands to combine different approaches (cf. Morgeson & Campion, 1997) and gives them an empirical basis.

Exploring information seeking of rural older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brady Lund ◽  
Jinxuan Ma
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Midwestern United States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Information Seeking Behaviors ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the types and sources of information sought by older adults along with their motivations in the Midwestern United States.Design/methodology/approachInterviews were conducted with 30 older adults residing in rural communities around the Midwestern United States during late-summer (July/August) 2020, using a protocol based on Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology. The resulting data was analyzed using standard content analysis procedures, guided by the theoretical frameworks based on Dervin's Sense-Making and Williamson's Ecological Model of Information Behavior. Implications of COVID-19 for the normative behaviors described in these models are discussed.FindingsFindings show that older adults were concerned primarily with health and political information during this period, but that this information was not necessarily sought only to address an informational need, but also to satisfy the need to maintain social and emotional connections in coping with isolation and loneliness. Sources of information that allowed for social interaction with people were favored. Wider personal networks (community members) were strained by the social distancing measures and closures. These findings have theoretical and practical implications for considering the impact of social restrictions on information seeking behaviors of older adults in a time of crisis.Originality/valueThis study is the first, known to the authors, that applied the two adopted theoretical frameworks to explore information seeking behaviors of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Knowledge transfer via personnel mobility: the effect of Knowledge about the distribution of information

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (10) ◽  
pp. 1391-1400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lushan Pan ◽  
Zhong-Ming Wang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Group Performance ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Distributed Information ◽  
Mediated Moderation ◽  
Moderation Effects ◽  
Information Pooling ◽  
Shared Context

The effect of knowledge about the distribution of information on knowledge transfer was examined to understand why some organizations are able to benefit from personnel mobility while others are not. The authors proposed that shared context moderated the effect of knowledge about distributed information on knowledge transfer, particularly the information pooling process. The hypotheses were tested in an experimental condition (N = 240). As predicted, knowledge of distributed information interacted with shared context to affect knowledge transfer. Two mediated moderation effects help explain this finding. Shared context moderated the effect of knowledge about distributed information with information pooling, which in turn was positively associated with group performance. Moreover, information sharing partly mediated the interactive effect of knowledge of distributed information with shared context.

scholarly journals Demand Sharing Inaccuracies in Supply Chains: A Simulation Study

Complexity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvatore Cannella ◽  
Roberto Dominguez ◽  
Jose M. Framinan ◽  
Manfredi Bruccoleri
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Bullwhip Effect ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Short Delay ◽  
Demand Information ◽  
Demand Variability ◽  
The Impact

We investigate two main sources of information inaccuracies (i.e., errors and delays) in demand information sharing along the supply chain (SC). Firstly, we perform a systematic literature review on inaccuracy in demand information sharing and its impact on supply chain dynamics. Secondly, we model several SC settings using system dynamics and assess the impact of such information inaccuracies on SC performance. More specifically, we study the impact of four factors (i.e., demand error, demand delay, demand variability, and average lead times) using three SC dynamic performance indicators (i.e., bullwhip effect, inventory variability, and average inventory). The results suggest that demand error has a negative impact on SC performance, which is exacerbated by the magnitude of the error and by low demand variability scenarios. In contrast, demand delay produces a nonlinear behavior in the supply chain response (i.e., a short delay may have a negative impact and a long delay may have a positive impact), being influenced by the supply chain configuration.

scholarly journals 2018 Impression, Pattern and Trace Evidence Symposium

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole S. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Forensic Science ◽  
Forensic Sciences ◽  
Trace Evidence ◽  
National Institute Of Justice ◽  
Support Of Research ◽  
Poster Presentations

From January 22 to 25, 2018, RTI International, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Forensic Technology Center of Excellence (FTCoE) held the 2018 Impression, Pattern and Trace Evidence Symposium (IPTES) in Arlington, VA, to promote collaboration, enhance knowledge transfer, and share best practices and policies for the impression, pattern, and trace evidence forensic science communities. NIJ and FTCoE are committed to improving the practice of forensic science and strengthening its impact through support of research and development, rigorous technology evaluation and adoption, effective knowledge transfer and education, and comprehensive dissemination of best practices and guidelines to agencies dedicated to combating crime. The future of forensic sciences and its contribution to the public and criminal justice community is a motivating topic to gather expertise in a forum to discuss, learn, and share ideas. It’s about becoming part of an essential and historic movement as the forensic sciences continue to advance. The IPTES was specifically designed to bring together practitioners and researchers to enhance information-sharing and promote collaboration among the impression, pattern, and trace evidence analysts, law enforcement, and legal communities. The IPTES was designed to bring together practitioners and researchers to enhance information sharing and promote collaboration among impression, pattern, and trace evidence analysts, law enforcement, and legal communities. This set of proceedings comprises abstracts from workshops, general sessions, breakout sessions, and poster presentations.

Information sharing, knowledge transfer, and cognition in distributed teams

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abby L. Mello ◽  
Joan R. Rentsch ◽  
Lisa Delise ◽  
Melissa Staniewicz ◽  
Michael Letsky
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Distributed Teams
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