Policy translation

Scheuer, John Damm

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“…The translation perspective on organizational change has developed in organization studies in recent years among researchers who study the movement of management and organizing ideas as well as other tokens in organizations ( 1 – 3 ). It focuses on understanding how different types of ideas/tokens move within as well as between organizations.…”

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“…It focuses on understanding how different types of ideas/tokens move within as well as between organizations. The types of tokens that organizational translation researchers have studied include the translation of new management and healthcare ideas, of strategies, policy ideas, the movement of knowledge, translation in relation to socio-technical co-construction and design of IT-systems as well as in relation to the creation and translation of ideas and knowledge during innovation processes ( 3 ). This article will focus on what implementation science researchers may learn about implementation processes related to knowledge objects from the theories and models of translation that have been developed in organization studies ( 1 – 3 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The types of tokens that organizational translation researchers have studied include the translation of new management and healthcare ideas, of strategies, policy ideas, the movement of knowledge, translation in relation to socio-technical co-construction and design of IT-systems as well as in relation to the creation and translation of ideas and knowledge during innovation processes ( 3 ). This article will focus on what implementation science researchers may learn about implementation processes related to knowledge objects from the theories and models of translation that have been developed in organization studies ( 1 – 3 ). It offers a new view on implementation as translation processes that may supplement and—if further researched—develop especially the process dimension of existing frameworks in implementation science.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Giving an overview of all the insights that organizational translation studies may offer implementation science researchers is not possible in a short article. Readers interested in that may explore these issues further in Scheuer ( 3 ). Instead, the article will focus on answering the following research questions: What are the implications of selected organizational translation theories and models for processes related to implementation of evidence-based knowledge objects in healthcare organizations?…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As a consequence, many theories about organizations and typologies of change strategies and models based on them have been developed in organization studies ( 15 , 38 , 39 ) 1 . This approach has also characterized organizational translation studies and organizational researchers' attempts to theorize and model change processes in organizations as translation processes ( 3 ).…”

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Translating evidence-based knowledge objects into practice

Scheuer

2023

Front. Health Serv.

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This paper aims to show how organizational translation theories and models may supplement implementation science with a new process perspective on how knowledge objects such as Cochrane reviews, clinical guidelines and reference programs are implemented in practice in healthcare organizations. They build on Bruno Latour's idea about translation that states that the spread in time and space of anything—including knowledge objects—is in the hands of people and that each of these people may act in many different ways, letting the token drop, modifying it, deflecting it, betraying it, adding to it, or appropriating it. Implementation science theories, models and frameworks often try to identify general aspects of processes and variables that influence implementation processes. In contrast, translation theories and models build on a process view that uses the sequence of events, activities and choices by translators situated in time as well as in space to explain how outcomes of translation/implementation processes came about. The paper develops some implementation relevant propositions about translation of knowledge objects in healthcare organizations that may inform further research. Moreover, it discusses how organizational translation studies and implementation science may supplement each other.

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confidence: 99%