Social Networks Learning And Flexibility

Author : Julia Porter Liebeskind
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biotechnologists
ISBN : IND:30000113771012

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Social Networks, Learning, and Flexibility by Julia Porter Liebeskind Pdf

We examine how two highly successful new biotechnology firms (NBFs) source their most critical input -- scientific knowledge. We find that scientists at the two NBFs enter into large numbers of collaborative research efforts with scientists at other organizations, especially universities. Formal market contracts are rarely used to govern these exchanges of scientific knowledge. Our findings suggest that the use of boundary-spanning social networks by the two NBFs increases both their learning and their flexibility in ways that would not be possible within a self-contained hierarchical organization.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Committee on Human Factors
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780309089524

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Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Committee on Human Factors Pdf

In the summer of 2002, the Office of Naval Research asked the Committee on Human Factors to hold a workshop on dynamic social network and analysis. The primary purpose of the workshop was to bring together scientists who represent a diversity of views and approaches to share their insights, commentary, and critiques on the developing body of social network analysis research and application. The secondary purpose was to provide sound models and applications for current problems of national importance, with a particular focus on national security. This workshop is one of several activities undertaken by the National Research Council that bears on the contributions of various scientific disciplines to understanding and defending against terrorism. The presentations were grouped in four sessions â€" Social Network Theory Perspectives, Dynamic Social Networks, Metrics and Models, and Networked Worlds â€" each of which concluded with a discussant-led roundtable discussion among the presenters and workshop attendees on the themes and issues raised in the session.

Author : Isabel Salavisa,Margarida Fontes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136307393

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Social Networks, Innovation and the Knowledge Economy by Isabel Salavisa,Margarida Fontes Pdf

In this book, the authors illustrate how social networks can play a very significant role in the technological catch up process in moderate innovative countries. Using an innovative approach to the study of entrepreneurship in knowledge-intensive sectors, the book analyses the role of social networks in the access and deployment of the variety of competences and resources required for the successful creation of knowledge-intensive companies, which has not yet been studied sufficiently in this context.

Author : Henk W. Volberda
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191645044

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Building the Flexible Firm by Henk W. Volberda Pdf

How do firms cope with changing environments? Is flexibility really the solution? How can we measure a firm's flexibility? Can a more flexible firm be created? Based on an Igor Ansoff Award-winning study and now available for the first time in paperback, Henk Volberda's Building the Flexible Firm shows how flexibility has become the new strategic challenge for contemporary firms. Although traditional organizational forms have worked well in the relatively stable environments of the past, the globalization of markets, rapid technological change, shortening product life cycles, and increasing aggressiveness of competitors have radically altered the ground rules for competing in the 1990s and beyond. Increased competition forces firms to move more quickly and boldly than before, and to experiment in ways that do not conform to traditional administrative theory. This book offers a wealth of insights into the way firms can increase their flexibility. It is based on extensive interviews with practitioners and supported by many longitudinal case studies on flexibility improvement within large corporations. The author provides a strategic framework which explains what types of flexibility are effective under different organizational conditions and environmental characteristics. He also demonstrates an integrated method for diagnosing a firm's flexibility and for guiding the transition to greater flexibility and responsiveness.

Author : Dr. S. Saileela and Dr. S. Kalaivani
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359895069

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Education on Digital Cultural and Social Media by Dr. S. Saileela and Dr. S. Kalaivani Pdf

Author : Lynn Ilon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317499947

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The Cost of Not Educating the World’s Poor by Lynn Ilon Pdf

In The Cost of Not Educating the World’s Poor, Lynn Ilon observes from her 30 years of travel and work in some 20 developing countries, how global instability, problems of environmental degradation, spread of global disease, migration and political instability are a cost of viewing the uneducated poor as separated from a networked of fast-growing global knowledge. This book shows how powerful global learning systems are rapidly forming and linking the rich world with the world of the poor and developing nations. Using a narrative voice interleaved with concise introductions to the underlying theories (economics, development, learning, technology and networks) it shows us how changing our ways of thinking can lead to new possibilities. The Cost of Not Educating the World’s Poor is based on an emerging theory of development economics and the author’s own vast experiences and stories. It also discusses, among other issues: International development and how it has evolved toward an emphasis on knowledge How networked human capital creates new potential for poorly resourced countries The formation of a global system of learning networks The digitization of knowledge How nations improve their well-being through knowledge and equity This inter-disciplinary assessment of international learning inequality and the methods to overcome it will appeal to researchers concerned with emerging concepts of global learning networks and their effects on development. It will also be of interest to students and policymakers studying national inequality, economics, and global development.

Author : Robert Barner,Charlotte P. Barner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118238394

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Building Better Teams by Robert Barner,Charlotte P. Barner Pdf

Over the past 10 years in the field of human and organizational development, the approach to team building has moved from problem solving and conflict management to helping work groups and organizations build a foundation of trust, cooperation, and mutual support. Focusing on collaboration rather than resolving conflict, Building Better Teams: 70 Tools and Techniques for Strengthening Performance Within and Across Teams offers a fresh approach to team building. It provides proven tools for the most common needs of teams, including establishing trust, building consensus, managing change, working virtually and across boundaries, and dealing with setbacks.

Author : John de la Mothe,Jorge Niosi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461543237

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The Economic and Social Dynamics of Biotechnology by John de la Mothe,Jorge Niosi Pdf

`Biotechnology' - the integrated use of biochemistry, microbiology, and chemical engineering for the technological application of the capabilities of microbes and cultured tissue cells - is quickly becoming pervasive and challenging, rapidly developing both new techniques and industries. The Economic and Social Dynamics of Biotechnology - a joint project between Statistics Canada, the Program of Research on Innovation, Management and Economy (PRIME) at the University of Ottawa, and CIRANO at the University of Quebec in Montreal - brings together economic, social, and statistical views on the dynamics of this set of emerging technologies. It examines the costs as well as the benefits - the challenges as well as the choices - of the rapidly expanding science-based world of biodiversity, biopharmaceuticals, and bioinformatics, and it provides suggestions for future work and research. This project fits into an ongoing research program at Statistics Canada to develop meaningful indicators for science, technology, and innovation in a technology-intensive economy. This book tells the story of the inner workings of innovation systems, technological systems, and competence blocs in the production, use, and diffusion of knowledge.

Author : Juan Moreno-Garcia, Felipe Hernández-Perlines,Benito Yáñez-Araque,Murad Ali
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832528709

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Training, performance and dynamic capabilities: New insights from absorptive, innovative, adaptative and learning capacities by Juan Moreno-Garcia, Felipe Hernández-Perlines,Benito Yáñez-Araque,Murad Ali Pdf

Author : Fredric M. Jablin,Linda L. Putnam
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412915252

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The New Handbook of Organizational Communication by Fredric M. Jablin,Linda L. Putnam Pdf

This handbook provides an analysis of the latest advances in this exciting field. It assists in establishing a clear identity that has grown over the latter part of the century. The contributors provide a more multidisciplinary perspective drawing from the fields of organizational behavior, management studies and communication.

Author : Dirk Fornahl,Christian Zellner,David B. Audretsch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0387231412

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The Role of Labour Mobility and Informal Networks for Knowledge Transfer by Dirk Fornahl,Christian Zellner,David B. Audretsch Pdf

The purpose of this volume is to analyze the microfoundations of knowledge spillovers. The microeconomic analysis of spillovers leads to the insight that the spillover and flow of knowledge is not at all automatic. Instead, this volume suggests that a filter exists between knowledge and its economic application. The focus of this volume is on several key mechanisms that serve to reduce this filter and facilitate the flow of knowledge. In particular, the volume draws on an emerging literature identifying the role of knowledge spillovers to investigate significance of labor mobility and informal networks as mechanisms facilitating the flow of knowledge. No field in economics has dealt extensively with the microeconomics of knowledge spillovers. This volume brings together scholars from a broad spectrum of fields including labor economics, regional economics, the economics of innovation and technological change, and sociology to introduce new insights yielded from the microfoundations of knowledge spillovers.

Author : Sonya Sachdeva,Lindsay Kathleen Campbell,Erika S. Svendsen,Michelle Leigh Johnson
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782832500330

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The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Transformation of Human Relationships with Nature at Multiple Scales by Sonya Sachdeva,Lindsay Kathleen Campbell,Erika S. Svendsen,Michelle Leigh Johnson Pdf

Author : R. Sengamalam
Publisher : Shanlax Publications
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789395422048

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Transformation of Teaching-Learning Strategies in the Digital Era by R. Sengamalam Pdf

Author : Michael E. Auer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Educational technology
ISBN : 9783031533822

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Towards a Hybrid, Flexible and Socially Engaged Higher Education by Michael E. Auer Pdf

Zusammenfassung: We are currently witnessing a significant transformation in the development of education on all levels and especially in post-secondary education. To face these challenges, higher education must find innovative and effective ways to respond in a proper way. The pandemic period left us with profound changes in the way we teach and learn, including the massive use of new means of communication, such as videoconferencing and other technological tools. Moreover, the current explosion of artificial intelligence tools, mainly used by students, is challenging teaching practices maintained for centuries. Scientifically based statements as well as excellent best practice examples are absolutely necessary.The 26th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2023), which will take place in Madrid, Spain, between 26th and 30th September 2023, will be the perfect place where to present and discuss current trends in Higher Education. Since its beginning in 1998 this conference is devoted to new approaches in learning with a focus on collaborative learning in Higher Education. Nowadays the ICL conferences are a forum of the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences in Learning and Engineering Pedagogy. In this way we try to bridge the gap between 'pure' scientific research and the everyday work of educators

Author : Timothy J. Wilkinson,Vijay R. Kannan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798216149941

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Strategic Management in the 21st Century by Timothy J. Wilkinson,Vijay R. Kannan Pdf

Covering both practical and theoretical aspects of strategic management, this three-volume work brings the complex topic down to earth and enables readers to gain competitive business advantages in their marketplace. This clear, insightful, and interesting work covers all aspects of strategic management, including chapters that discuss SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis, the Resource-Based View, transaction cost economics, and real options theory. Unlike other books, this three-volume work examines strategic management from different perspectives, effectively interweaving seemingly disparate subdisciplines, such as entrepreneurship and international business, with specialized foci, such as creativity, innovation, and trust. Incorporating information from contributors as varied as a proprietor of a worldwide motorcycle business to one of the most published scholars in the field of international strategic management, the practical and theoretical perspectives presented in Strategic Management in the 21st Century will benefit business strategists, professors of strategic management, and graduate students in the field.