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Virtuous Spiral or Vicious Circle ?

Virtuous Spiral or Vicious Circle ? Creating and Distributing Innovative Knowledge within Universities. Martin Rehm, Amber Dailey-Hebert, Katerina Bohle Carbonell & Karen D. Könings 20th International EDiNEB Conference, Milton Keynes (UK), June 2013.

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Virtuous Spiral or Vicious Circle ?

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  1. Virtuous Spiral or Vicious Circle? Creating and Distributing Innovative Knowledge within Universities Martin Rehm, Amber Dailey-Hebert, KaterinaBohleCarbonell& Karen D. Könings 20th International EDiNEB Conference, Milton Keynes (UK), June 2013

  2. universities are challenged to tackle interconnected, ill-defined problems in need of innovative solutions

  3. vs. Top-Down Approach Bottom-Up Approach

  4. Bottom-Up Approach • make use of faculty’s tacit knowledge composed of their on-the-job experiences (e.g. Gherardi & Nicolini, 2000) • transforming individuals’ tacit knowledge into new explicit knowledge  contribute to the process of (innovative) knowledge creation within organizations.

  5. Tacit  Explicit Knowledge & Innovative Knowledge Communities (IKC) Social Interaction

  6. Main Research Question

  7. How do educational innovators collaborate and spread their newly gained knowledge throughout an organization in “bottom-up” initiatives?

  8. Research Model

  9. Setting • Maastricht University • 3-year project: “Learning and Working” • all faculties • new target groups • innovative learning approaches

  10. Instruments • Social Network Analysis • In- & Out-Degree Ties • The amount of connections sent / received • Knowledge Sharing Attitudes • Individuals’ knowledge sharing intentions (IKSI)(Bock, Zmund, Kim, & Lee, 2005)

  11. Social Network Analysis

  12. all ties among members

  13. only “frequent” out-degree connections

  14. Knowledge Sharing Attitudes

  15. Note: Group A; N = 10 (50%); Likert scale 1 (strong disagreement) – 5 (strong agreement)

  16. Conclusion a first preliminary idea of how educational innovators collaborate and spread their newly gained knowledge throughout an organization in “bottom-up” initiatives

  17. Outlook • expand the scope to include a broader group of individuals from within an entire organization  Groups B & C • cross comparison of initiatives • Park University • 2-year project innovate faculty development

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