From practice to collaborative community in interdisciplinary research contexts

Siedlok, Frank; Hibbert, Paul; Sillince, John A. A.

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.018

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“…Viewed through a CoP lens, these tensions can never be fully resolved but can be generatively managed at the firm-community boundary. Similar to Siedlok et al (2015), we posit that understanding the tensions that underpin firm-community knowledge dynamics can help host firms formulate support initiatives that aid in orchestrating the firm's practices with those of the (user) community, and thus overcome barriers to the creation and capture of value through community-based OI. We offer insights into the processes involved in supporting knowledge collaboration by focusing on the role of boundary spanners and boundary objects in traversing knowledge boundaries in the firm-community context.…”

Section: Discussion and Future Research Avenuesmentioning

confidence: 95%

Knowledge dynamics at the firm-user community boundary: A Community of Practice view

Randhawa

Josserand

Schweitzer

2016

AMPROC

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In this paper, we address the need for newer approaches to engage with the interactive nature of knowledge exchange that occurs when firms engage in open innovation with user communities.Drawing on the Community of Practice perspective, we develop a relational framework that forms the basis for examining the social dynamics underpinning knowledge collaboration between the firm and the community. This framework integrates the perspective of community (and its users) with the host firm to enable a comprehensive investigation of the tensions associated with the dynamics at the firm-community boundary, and how these tensions can be managed generatively to enable seamless co-creation of knowledge and innovation. We discuss how researchers can use the framework for future studies that seek to better understand the complex, relational dynamics of firm-community knowledge collaboration. These insights are valuable for firms to support knowledge collaboration by focusing on effective boundary management practices for negotiating tensions that emanate at the firm-community boundary.

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Section: Discussion and Future Research Avenuesmentioning

confidence: 95%

Knowledge dynamics at the firm-user community boundary: A Community of Practice view

Randhawa

Josserand

Schweitzer

2016

AMPROC

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“…Creating a common vision, alignment of priorities/interests [9,[46][47][48]63,71,74,82]. Shared identity and values [66,83,84]. Inclusiveness [28,71].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ownership of outcomes [9]. Trust [41,54,66,84,88]. Trust and respect [89] Are you ready to share products that are still work in progress?…”

Section: Ownership and Trustmentioning

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Towards a Reflexive Framework for Fostering Co—Learning and Improvement of Transdisciplinary Collaboration

Knickel

Galli

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Scholars in sustainability science as well as research funders increasingly recognize that a shift from disciplinary and interdisciplinary science to transdisciplinary (TD) research is required to address ever more complex sustainability challenges. Evidence shows that addressing real-world societal problems can be best achieved through collaborative research where diverse actors contribute different kinds of knowledge. While the potential benefits of TD research are widely recognized, its implementation remains a challenge. In this article, we develop a framework that supports reflection and co-learning. Our approach fosters monitoring of the collaboration processes, helps to assess the progress made and encourages continuous reflection and improvement of the research processes. The TD co-learning framework has four dimensions and 44 criteria. It is based on a substantial literature review and was tested in a Horizon 2020-funded research project ROBUST, which is applying experimental governance techniques to improve rural-urban relations in eleven European regions. The results demonstrate that the framework covers the key facets of TD collaboration and that all four broad dimensions matter. Each research-practice team reflected on how their collaboration is going and what needs to be improved. Indeed, the coordination team was able to see how well TD collaboration is functioning at a project level. We believe the framework will be valuable for actors involved in the planning and implementation of any type of multi-actor, interactive, innovation, transformation and action-oriented research project.

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“…Not surprisingly, the collaborative aspect is a key concern in much of the literature on collaborative research projects (Barnes et al, 2006, Brocke and Lippe, 2015, Davenport et al, 1998, Siedlok et al, 2015, Tripsas et al, 1995. We build our collaborative perspective by outlining collaborative challenges related to five variables (Binder, 2009, Binder, 2007, i.e.…”

Section: The Collaborative Perspectivementioning

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Exploring scenario development – a case study of two collaborative research projects

Fossum

Aarseth

Andersen

2019

IJMPB

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Purpose -The paper explores scenario development (SD) as a method for engaging known challenges in collaborative research projects, i.e. SD is the construct under investigation.Design/methodology/approach -Criticism of the dominant, rational approach to project management (PM) and its underlying hypotheses highlights a considerable PM research gap for research projects (research problem). We undertake a six-step constructive research approach to investigate if SD (the construct) constitutes a fruitful method to support the management of collaborative research projects. A two-part literature review summarizes known challenges in collaborative research projects and introduces the history and application of SD methodology. The work includes participatory action research (PAR) in two case studies, constituting a qualitative research method.Findings -We found the SD method to be useful for structuring and analysing intuitive project processes. However, using SD in the management of single projects presents some fundamental challenges. SD, like PM, struggles with issues related to myopic decisions, a "predict and provide" attitude with clear aspects of path dependency in the project front-end as well as inconsistent and/or missing identification of success criteria among different stakeholders.Research limitations/implications -This paper does not provide any comprehensive, normative account of scenario techniques or compare SD with other foresight and future studies methods. Although PAR is in itself a research method that demands systematic description and execution, the focus of this paper is the overall constructive research approach.Practical implications -The paper offers a broadened repertoire of methods to describe and analyse project stakeholder situations (collaborative aspects) and to structure and balance the need for both rational and intuitive project processes (research aspects). The SD method also supports development of graphical storylines and facilitates the use of influence diagrams, event trees and cost/benefit analysis.Originality/value -Although PM literature contains several references to SD, the practical application of SD at single-project level has, to our knowledge, never been described in the PM literature.

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From practice to collaborative community in interdisciplinary research contexts

Cited by 42 publications

References 73 publications

Knowledge dynamics at the firm-user community boundary: A Community of Practice view

Knowledge dynamics at the firm-user community boundary: A Community of Practice view

Towards a Reflexive Framework for Fostering Co—Learning and Improvement of Transdisciplinary Collaboration

Exploring scenario development – a case study of two collaborative research projects

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