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To Frame or Reframe: Where Might Design Thinking Research Go Next? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Design thinking is gaining widespread attention in the practitioner and academic literature. Successful implementation has been documented, and its value shown in empirical studies.
Beckman, SL
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Museums of Łódź as an Element of Tourism Space and the Connection between Museums and the City’s Tourism Image [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article deals with the museum potential of Łódź. The first sections describe the kinds and significance of museums, their location in the city and the attractiveness of their collections, premises and organized events.
Krakowiak, Beata
core   +1 more source

Interdisciplinarities in Action: Cognitive Ethnography of Bioengineering Sciences Research Laboratories [PDF]

open access: yesPerspectives on Science, 2019
The paper frames interdisciplinary research as creating complex, distributed cognitive-cultural systems. It introduces and elaborates on the method of cognitive ethnography as a primary means for investigating interdisciplinary cognitive and learning practices in situ.
openaire   +1 more source

Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Practice adoption in MNCS: A multi‐level interactionist model of trait activation

open access: yesGlobal Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Sharing knowledge through organizational practices is an important source of advantage for multinational corporations (MNCs). While prior research on practice adoption by subsidiaries of MNCs has identified several individual and organizational factors, this study examines their interplay in the context of HQ‐mandated ...
Sven Kunisch   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Think tanks, policy networks and education governance: The rising of new intra-national spaces of policy in Portugal

open access: yesEducation Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
This article focuses on the role of think tanks in education governance in Portugal, We are interested in contributing to a literature that discusses the emergence of new intra-national spaces of policy, and examines how the actors operating in those ...
Sofia Viseu, Luís Miguel Carvalho
doaj   +1 more source

The need to promote behaviour change at the cultural level: one factor explaining the limited impact of the MEMA kwa Vijana adolescent sexual health intervention in rural Tanzania. A process evaluation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background - Few of the many behavioral sexual health interventions in Africa have been rigorously evaluated. Where biological outcomes have been measured, improvements have rarely been found.
A Appadurai   +76 more
core   +4 more sources

Embracing Complexity in HRM Research: A Call for System and Process Perspectives

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human resource management (HRM) is inherently complex. It involves systems of principles, practices, and activities operating at individual, group, organizational, and macro levels, which are interlinked through complex processes. Yet, empirical research has not kept pace with this conceptual richness.
Rebecca Hewett, Madleen Meier‐Barthold
wiley   +1 more source

Situated and distributed cognition in artifact negotiation and trade-specific skills: A cognitive ethnography of Kashmiri carpet weaving practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article describes various ways actors in Kashmiri carpet weaving practice deploy a range of artifacts, from symbolic, to material, to hybrid, in order to achieve diverse cognitive accomplishments in their particular task domains: information ...
Kaur, Gagan Deep
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Canine-centered interface design: supporting the work of diabetes alert dogs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Many people with Diabetes live with the continuous threat of hypoglycaemic attacks and the danger of going into coma. Diabetic Alert Dogs are trained to detect the onset of an attack before the human handler they are paired with deteriorates, giving them
Guest, Claire   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

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