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- Enberg, Cecilia, et al.
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Exploring circuits of knowledge through metaphors for knowledge integration
- 2014
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper aims at understanding how different KI processes co-exist in a technology development project. Starting in a dialectic relation between the integrationist perspective and the taxonomic perspective, we saw that these two approaches corresponded to different activities observed in the field. To emphasize different aspects of work in a development project we have used metaphors, rather than perspectives, to address concurrent processes. The metaphors Sum, Synergy and Source are described and illustrated with empirical examples. Together, the three metaphors highlight the multilevel and dynamic aspects of knowledge integration processes.
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- Bengtsson, Lars, et al.
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Öppen och sluten på samma gång : att integrera kunskap över företags gränser
- 2015
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In: Kunskapsintegration och innovation i en internationaliserande ekonomi. - Göteborg : Makadam Förlag. - 9789170611902 ; , s. 84-100
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Företag får allt svårare att behärska alla de teknologiområden som behövs för utvecklingen av sofistikerade produkter för den internationella marknaden. Därför ökar betydelsen av samarbete med olika typer av partners vars kunskaper kompletterar dem som finns internt. Detta har lett till ett ökat intresse för det som kallas öppen innovation. Det innebär att företag öppnar sina innovationsprocesser och involverar kunder, leverantörer, konsulter, akademier och ibland även konkurrenter för att underlätta in- och utflöde av kunskaper och teknologier. Företag kan vara öppna i olika faser av produktframtagningsprocessen, från idégenerering till kommersialisering, och samarbetet kan kretsa kring olika typer av kunskapsinnehåll (teknologi, produkter, processer). Tidigare forskning har framför allt betonat fördelarna med ökad öppenhet. Utifrån vår forskning om öppen innovation, som innefattar både intervjubaserade fallstudier av innovationsprojekt och en enkät till 415 företag om öppen innovation, vill vi lyfta fram tre utmaningar i detta sammanhang: den egna spetskompetensen, kostnader för integration av extern kunskap och risken för kunskapsläckage. Resultaten visar att företag behöver utforma sina innovationsprocesser så att de kan vara öppna och slutna på samma gång.
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- Bengtsson, Marie, et al.
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Foolishness without consequence? : From physical to virtual modeling in the history of military aircraft development at Saab
- 2020
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In: Industrial and Corporate Change. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0960-6491 .- 1464-3650. ; 29:1, s. 163-181
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- From Jim March we learned that organizational intelligence demands adaptation to the needs of a distant future as well as the efficient use of resources in the present. Commitment to new ideas that deviate from norm is necessary for long-term adaptation, but comes with great uncertainty as to if when or how success will come. This article uses a historical study of military aircraft manufacturer Saab to explore the transition from experimenting with physical models and dangerous test flights in the development of rather simple aircraft systems, to the development of complex integrated aircraft systems using virtual models that can be tested in a simulated world, thereby postponing choice and the need for commitment of resources in the physical world. We show how modeling techniques and tools were developed over five generations of aircraft to help developers represent and evaluate alternative ideas, in an increasingly realistic virtual reality, thereby reducing material and fatal consequences in aircraft development. We distinguish hybrid forms of evaluation and a transition that seems to be moving in the direction of “virtual online evaluation,” where empirically informed simulation models, based on real flight data reduces the fidelity gap between reality and representation. Drawing upon a selection of Jim March’s writings, we speculate what this transition implies for learning from experience and the possibility of foolishness without consequence.
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- Benulic, Kajsa-Stina, et al.
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Why firms do not expect climate policies to have the intended effects – positioning in a polycentric governance landscape
- 2023
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In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 0964-0568 .- 1360-0559.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A polycentric governance regime that includes non-state actors has potential to increase the pace in mitigating climate change if there is concerted action among the actors involved. However, previous research has shown that climate policy directed at business firms does not always have the intended effects. Taking a polycentric perspective to climate governance, this paper contributes insight into why some firms expect that to be the case. The paper builds on qualitative interviews with firms in the Swedish construction and civil engineering industry. We apply positioning theory to analyse firms' views on their own and other actors' roles and responsibilities in climate transformation. The results suggest that governance authorities could take on a more traditional, coercive leadership role, setting clear rules and regulations, if these extend in time and space to create a market where the shared goals are ambitious, and the playing field is level for firms.
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- Bredin, Karin, 1977-, et al.
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Knowledge Integration at Work : Individual Project Competence in Agile Projects
- 2017
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In: Managing Knowledge Integration Across Boundaries. - New York : Oxford University Press. - 9780198785972 ; , s. 206-226
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter addresses individual project competence as a key element in the process of knowledge integration in research and development projects. It argues for an individual and contextual turn in knowledge integration research based on two observations: that individuals play an increasingly important role in knowledge integration processes, and that knowledge integration processes change with new kinds of project contexts. Hence, it argues for a more fine-grained analysis of different kinds of project contexts. More particularly, requirements on individual project competence (for knowledge integration in traditional and agile projects respectively) are elicited. It is suggested that in a traditional project context, liminality competence, planning competence and a focus on swift socialization are needed, along with T-shaped skills. In an agile project context, on the other hand, flexibility competence, managerial competence and a focus on building long-term relations, together with M-shaped skills, are required.
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- Bredin, Karin, 1977-, et al.
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Solutions for sustained expertise in project-based organizations : Organizing for disciplinary leadership or disciplinary community
- 2015
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A prerequisite for effective knowledge integration is access to differentiated and specialized knowledge bases. Knowledge integration often takes place in interdisciplinary project teams, where members spend most of their time working closely with members of opposing disciplinary domains in problem-solving processes. The disciplinary knowledge of individual team members is therefore key to the quality and outcome of the knowledge integration in organizations relying on interdisciplinary project work. This paper returns to a challenge well-described in previous research into project-based organizing, namely how to sustain and develop disciplinary expertise in the long run in an organization that promotes dispersal of disciplinary peers and an increased cross-learning across disciplines. So far, only a few studies have contributed to developing insights into how these challenges can be met, and how different organizational solutions might counteract the risks of losing disciplinary depth. Based on a comparative study of three cases, this study sets out to identify and analyze solutions that emerge in project-based organizations as a response to the challenge of sustaining and developing disciplinary expertise. The paper centers on structural solutions, and identifies two main types of expert structures that in different ways support disciplinary expertise: Expert structures for disciplinary leadership or for disciplinary community. These two types are further analyzed in relation to how they support disciplinary expertise.
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- Enberg, Cecilia, 1976-
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Att undervisa för hållbar utveckling
- 2023
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In: Högre Utbildning. - : Cappelen Damm Akademisk. - 2000-7558. ; 13:1, s. 13-16
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Review (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- "Författarna tar sin utgångspunkt i vad som troligen är den mest välkända definitionen av hållbar utveckling: ”Hållbar utveckling är en utveckling som tillfredsställer dagens behov utan att äventyra kommande generationers möjligheter att tillfredsställa sina behov.” Med denna som grund konstaterar de att hållbar utveckling innebär ett paradigmskifte som inbegriper radikala förändringar i hur vi ser på vår egen roll i världen." Läs hela Cecilia Enbergs recension av boken Att undervisa för hållbar utveckling.
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