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Communities of Practice as Vibrant Sources of Knowledge and Innovation within a Rigid Public Hierarchy
The concept of Communities of Practice is nowadays ‘common parlance’ in the private and public sector. However, research concerning the potential and benefits of CoPs embedded in public organizations lacks behind. Consequently, it still remains vague whether informal CoPs are able to unfold their widely recognized potential in terms of knowledge creation and dissemination within the context of the public sector. To shed light on this issue, the author employs the German Federal Armed Forces as a research setting since it is an outstanding example for a supremely hierarchical public organization showing a high degree of formalization in structure and processes. The research at hand partic...
The Organizational Embeddedness of Communities of Practice
This dissertation uncovers how informal and self-organized communities of practice as a source of learning and adaptability are embedded in their formal organizational surroundings. Based on an interpretative case study of three communities of practice within the German Federal Armed Forces, the author theorizes this embeddedness as shaped through cultural dynamics and leadership processes. In particular, the author draws on a practice lens and complexity leadership theory in explaining how communities of practice generate new resources (i.e., adaptability), produce and reproduce broader socio-cultural structures, and are enabled as well as influenced by formal leadership.
Exploring Meso-Level Dynamic Capabilities to Address the Capability Rigidity Paradox
In this book Florian Andresen aims to unpack the “capability rigidity paradox” within the dynamic capability view. Consequently, he tackles one of the core challenges in strategic management of the past decades. Providing a novel and thorough literature review on dynamic capabilities from the point of this paradox, the author discusses the current state of the literature to derive the core shortcomings meticulously. A case study of capability evolution in the German Armed Forces is interpreted against the backdrop of a strategy as process and practice lens, thus, allowing to propose the concept of meso‐level dynamic capabilities without falling prey to the capability rigidity paradox.
Marillion In The 1980s
Derided as seventies throwbacks upon their arrival and misremembered by the wider population as one-hit wonders, Marillion rode the 1980s as one of the most successful bands in Britain. Delivering the musical and conceptual density of early progressive rock with the caustic energy of punk, the Aylesbury heroes both spearheaded the neo-prog revival and produced its crown jewel in their number one album Misplaced Childhood and its Top 5 singles 'Kayleigh' and 'Lavender.' Musically, their influence reaches from prog legends Dream Theater and Steven Wilson to household names like Radiohead and Muse. The 1980s encapsulated Marillion’s birth, commercial apex, and near-implosion. This book combin...
Lead User in der Medical Homecare-Industrie in Deutschland
Auf Basis des Lead User-Konzeptes untersucht Dominique-Pascal Groß die Spezifika der Homecare-Branche und die Beziehungen zwischen innovierenden Nutzern, Intermediären wie Sanitätshäusern, Providern oder Verbänden und den Herstellern von Homecare-Produkten. Anhand einer Analyse des komplexen Beziehungsgeflechtes stellt er dar, auf welchen Wegen die mannigfaltigen Anwenderbedürfnisse, Ideen und Innovationen der Nutzer zu den Herstellern gelangen. Dabei zeigen sich Barrieren für die Umsetzung der Innovationen in allen drei betrachteten Bereichen. Die Entstehungsgrundlagen der Barrieren bei den Nutzern, den Intermediären und bei den Herstellern sind genauso unterschiedlich, wie die tatsächlich entfaltete Wirkung in den einzelnen Bereichen. Diese werden aufgezeigt, analysiert und mögliche Überwindungsstrategien dargelegt.
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Voiced and Voiceless in Asia
This volume consists of 19 chapters that reflect the titular theme - Voiced and Voiceless in Asia - from a variety of angles, making use of diverse scholarly approaches and disciplines, while focusing specifically on China, India, Japan, and Taiwan. The chapters are broadly divided into two parts: (1) Politics and Society, and (2) Arts and Literature, although the texts included in the second part also deal with social themes. In addition to historical topics, such as Japanese colonialism or Chinese agricultural reforms in the 1950s, the volume also addresses current issues, including restrictive Chinese policies in Xinjiang, Japanese activist movements against gender-based violence and disc...
The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter
The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter examines the role of Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland and shows how the process of colonization entails a process of subjectification where the identity of indigenous population is transformed. The figure of the hunter, commonly regarded as quintessential Inuit figure is traced back to the efforts of the Greenlandic intelligentsia to distance themselves from the hunting lifestyle by producing an abstract hunter identity in Greenlandic literature.
