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Collaboration and collaborative information technologies
1999
Collaborative information technologies have been claimed to enhance collaboration in organizations, under certain conditions. This claim was found problematic in several respects, also in the light of the results of 18 case studies of Lotus Notes use, taken from the literature. The cases may be split into three groups: (1) exploratory, conservative, or cautious use; (2) planned and expanding use; and (3) extensive and engaged use of Notes. In the first group, no changes in work arrangements due to Notes use could be found. In the second group, the planned Notes applications supported the established work arrangements, both collaborative and hierarchical. Only in the third group were there s…
Creative Improvisations with Information and Communication Technology to Support Learning : A Conceptual and Developmental Framework
2017
This article is about facilitating collaborative, creative improvisations in learning with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and in so doing enhancing under-utilised creative possibilities in education and development in schools, universities, workplaces and in every-day life. Improvisation is defined and earlier research on supporting creative improvisations with ICT is outlined. There follows a conceptual framing where improvisation is seen as a creative outcome of certain cultural ecological interactions in learning environments. It is proposed that these creative improvisational interactions can be facilitated by ICT, and developmental ideas are presented. The purpose of …
2021
In conjunction with the dismantling of psychiatric hospitals, social workers have been commissioned to help service users in their daily living in their homes and in the community. The consequences of these changes for experience-based knowledge and practices in their contexts remain relatively unknown. In this study, eighteen service users and the social workers they described as helpful for them were interviewed. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using Thematic Analysis. The following themes emerged: “Here, there and everywhere”, “Doing, being, becoming”, “Talking” and “Order, planning and improvisation” concerning the contradictions service users and professionals m…
Play together, think alike: Shared mental models in expert music improvisers
2015
International audience; When musicians improvise together, they tend to agree beforehand on a common structure (e.g. a jazz standard) which helps them coordinate. However, in the particular case of collective free improvisation (CFI), musicians deliberately avoid having such a referent. How, then, can they coordinate? We propose that CFI musicians who have experience playing together come to share higher-level knowledge, which is not piece-specific but rather task-specific: an implicit mental model of what it is to improvise freely. We tested this hypothesis on a group of 19 expert improvisers from the Parisian CFI community, who had various degrees of experience playing with one another. D…
How to learn from our mistakes : communication of health crises
2015
Reviewing public communications emitted during health crises in the last thirty years is useful for verifying that there are a number of repeated mistakes: for example, untrained spokespeople with poor communication skills, ambiguous messages, lack of communication plans for the crisis, and improvisation, which ends up with the transmission of alarming messages to the population and contributes to administrations being considered suspicious or untrustworthy by the people. The denatured rapeseed oil scandal, mad cow disease, influenza A virus, or the recent Ebola outbreak are clear examples of how not to communicate and offer us an opportunity to learn valuable lessons before future crises a…
Improving education management in Madagascar: results and implications of an impact evaluation
2008
International audience
Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) in management academies: state of the art and future challenges
2020
Recent organizational literature and business practice have underscored the relevance of promoting the integration of diversity within groups and organizations, as well as of adopting an “inclusionary approach” to embrace both observable and unobservable dimensions of heterogeneity. It has been suggested that this approach is critical to unleash the potential benefits of a varied organizational environment, such as greater creativity, flexible problem solving, originality, but also participation, talent promotion and, ultimately, ethics and humanity (see Cox and Blake, 1991; Milliken and Martins, 1996; Pless and Maak, 2004). Similar to many other professional communities, the academic world…
The Incubation Process for the Creation of Viable Firms: The Case of ARCA Consortium
2013
Purpose of the study. The process of creation of new firms is particularly complex when it starts from very innovative ideas that may be not understood by the stakeholders of the firm. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that academic incubators play a key role for firms’ viability. Methodology. We analyze the effectiveness of the incubation process that takes place in the incubator of Consorzio Arca, by means of a single case study with embedded design. Findings. The effectiveness of the incubation process is demonstrated by the high number of spin-offs that, after incubation, are able to stand alone in the market and to find the consonance with the relevant supra-systems. Research lim…
La responsabilità personale per il coinvolgimento di imprese in crimini internazionali. Il problema cruciale dei c.d. “atti neutrali”
2020
Il contributo considera l’intreccio fra livello individuale e livello collettivo dei crimini internazionali con specifico riferimento alla eventuale corresponsabilità di imprese e dei loro capi rispetto alla commissione di tali crimini da parte dei vertici militari o politici di un gruppo o di uno stato. Alla luce del principio di autoresponsabilità ricavabile dall’art. 25 dello Statuto di Roma, la relativa responsabilità può affermarsi per le attività di impresa direttamente strumentali a fatti violenti. Maggiormente problematica essa risulta invece per le ordinarie attività di impresa, che dunque appaiono neutrali ed estranee rispetto alle altrui condotte illecite. Per queste ultime la di…
Screening of oxazepine indole enantiomers by means of high performance liquid chromatography with imprinted polymer stationary phase.
2004
Chromatographic enantiomer separations of different oxazepine indole derivatives were performed using a molecularly imprinted polymer. A 5aR,12R,13S-trans-6,6-dimethyl-12,13-dihydro-6H-5a, 1 3-methanoindolo[2,1-b][1,3]naphthoxazepine-12-carboxamide enantiomerderivative was used as a template and the resultant polymer has shown enantiomer recognition for series of template related compounds. The mechanistic description of the chiral discrimination process is scrutinised, comparing the discrimination between the different conformations and substituents of the oxazepine indoles.