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Neue Tools für das Informationsund WissensmanagementWinkler, Till; Trier, Matthias (Berlin, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: E nterprise Social Networks (ESNs), d. h. Informationssysteme, die die Vernetzung von Mitarbeitern in Unternehmen fördern sollen, sind in verschiedenen Varianten und unter verschiedenen Bezeichnungen (etwa Enterprise Social Media, Corporate Social Software, Social Business oder Enterprise 2.0) bereits seit etwa gut einem Jahrzehnt auf dem Markt. Dennoch erfreuen sie sich erst seit den letzten Jahren steigender Beliebtheit und halten ebenfalls nach und nach flächendeckenden Einzug in Großunternehmen wie Siemens, Daimler oder Deutsche Telekom. Um mit dem Gartner »Hype Cycle« zu argumentieren: Das Thema ESN hat die Spitze des Hypes längst überschritten, das »Tal der Enttäuschungen« durchschritten und nähert sich nun zunehmend dem »Plateau der Produktivität«. Motivation genug, um sich anhand einiger ausgewählter Fallbeispiele mit ESNs genauer auseinanderzusetzen. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9593 Files in this item: 1
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Exploring the Interrelations of International Business and Politics in the Case of New Alliance for Food Security and NutritionHaakonsson, Stine; Gammelgaard, Johanna; Just, Sine N. (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: On May 18, 2012 leaders of the G8 and three African countries jointly launched the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NA). The collaboration was announced by the US president at the time, Barack Obama, who declared that “…food security is a moral imperative, but it’s also an economic imperative. History teaches us that one of the most effective ways to pull people and entire nations out of poverty is to invest in their agriculture” (Obama, 2012). NA aims to do just that: enhance Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in African agriculture by a partnership model committing public and private actors to shared goals of “sustained, inclusive, agriculture-led growth” (New Alliance, n.d.A). However, this aim – and with it NA as such – has received severe media criticism for being but a thin foil for what the The Guardian has dubbed the ‘corporate scramble for Africa’ (Jones, 2014): “It will be like colonialism. Farmers will not be able to farm until they import, linking farmers to [the] vulnerability of international prices. Big companies will benefit” a Tanzanian politician told the newspaper (Kabwe, quoted in Provost, Ford & Tran, 2014). More recently, the European Parliament (EP) has issued a resolution raising similar concerns, albeit in different tones. Thus, the EP (2016) in its review of NA: Calls on governments and donors to suspend or review all policies, projects and consultancy arrangements that directly encourage and facilitate land grabbing by supporting highly harmful projects and investments or indirectly increase pressure on land and natural resources and can result in serious human rights violations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9578 Files in this item: 1
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Hardt, Daniel; Rambow, Owen (Copenhagen, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We analyze user viewing behavior on an online news site. We collect data from 64,000 news articles, and use text features to predict frequency of user views. We compare predictiveness of the headline and “teaser” (viewed before clicking) and the body (viewed after clicking). Both are predictive of clicking behavior, with the full article text being most predictive. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9580 Files in this item: 1
Hardt_Rambow_2017.pdf (90.26Kb) -
Hansen, Michael Wendelboe (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Local content requirements - i.e. government backed requirements that extractive MNCs must procure inputs locally - are fast becoming a major issue in MNC-host country bargaining in Africa. Across Africa, governments are seeking to mobilize MNCs for sustainable development through increasingly stringent local content requirements. As a result, extractive MNCs are facing a rapidly evolving strategic field, the management of which may have immense implications for their investment decisions, profitability and efficiency. While a vibrant and dynamic literature on local content in Africa is emerging, this literature is predominantly informed by economic and political perspectives, and strategic management perspectives are virtually absent. This is problematic as one of the main reasons why local content interventions in Africa fail to produce the expected results is that they often are based on an inadequate understanding of MNC strategy and interests. Hence, the aim of this paper is to characterize and conceptually develop the strategic management perspective on local content. The paper outlines generic strategies that MNCs may adopt to balance the often conflicting pressures for local content and global efficiency. It is concluded that by better aligning local content intervention with MNC strategy and interests, the likelihood of positive development outcomes will be greatly enhanced. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9564 Files in this item: 1
Wendelboe Hansen_EIBA_2017.pdf (558.8Kb) -
Reflections on Digital ‘Focal Things and Practices’ in the WildernessBødker, Mads (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This position paper reflects on Borgmann’s notion of ‘focal things’ and its applicability in the discourse about interaction with technologies in nature. Using the example of a combined cooking burner and thermoelectric 5W smartphone charger (a BioLite cook stove), this position paper gives an example of how a mundance “device” turns focal once it is connected to a contextual infrastructure (the ‘wild’), and reflects on the applicability of the notion of focality. The guiding question is how the notion of ‘focal things and practices’ drawn from Borgmann might help us think about the (strained) relationship between digital technologies and the wilderness. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9563 Files in this item: 1
NatureHCI2017-Bodker.pdf (4.367Mb) -
Evidence for a Uniform AccountHardt, Daniel (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Same is an anaphoric element that performs a comparison, which can either be external or internal to a sentence. Hardt and Mikkelsen (2015) show that same, unlike other anaphoric expressions, imposes a parallelism constraint, and they present three types of examples showing that same is infelicitous in the absence of parallelism. Hardt and Mikkelsen propose an account that applies uniformly to internal and external readings; however, the evidence they present largely targets external readings – they don’t offer empirical evidence that clearly supports the uniform approach. Furthermore, Barker (2007) argues that internal readings must be treated differently than external readings. In this paper, I show that the parallelism effects observed by Hardt and Mikkelsen in fact apply to internal readings as well. This provides support for a uniform treatment of internal and external readings of same. It also suggests that discourse relations, which typically apply to separate overt predications, also apply to the implicit predications that arise in distributional structures. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9574 Files in this item: 1
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Extending the Business Case of Migrant Workers at the WorkplaceHolck, Lotte (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper contributes to theoretical debates around migrant workers at the workplace, labour market inequality and the business case of diversity. Building on stories of overqualified migrant stuck in low-rank jobs due to their migration, this paper explores how migrant workers are simultaneous defined by precarization and high demand especially in the service industry. Drawing on the qualitative data from the case company, Service, I inquire how a diverse composition of employees happened by coincidence, has turned into an advantage of extending the conventional diversity business case: Employing highly-skilled, career-minded migrants in low-skilled postions, migrants are simultaneously casted as a disposable, replicable and temporary resource, the ‘ideal worker’, AND as a ‘high potential’ for first line management. This extended business case of diversity draws on multifaceted business arguments that arise from migrants’ paradoxical situation. To improve their situation, the article discusses whether alternative conceptualization of talents, ‘high potentials’, and making the ambitions of diverse employees more prominent in strategic human resource management can be a relavant strategy – instead of targeted diversity management programs often losing sight of equality. Promoting socio-economic redistribution and general recognition of migrant workers through labor marked affiliation might be the best way to protect these 'diverse workers'; just by fighting for better working conditions for them as workers (Fraser and Honneth, 2003; Zanoni and Janssens, 2014). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9558 Files in this item: 1
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The end of Agile as we know it?Babb, Jeffry; Nørbjerg, Jacob; Yates, David J.; Waguespack, Leslie J. (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Agile methods have co-evolved with the onset of rapid change and turbidity in software and systems development and the methodologies and process models designed to guide them. Conceived from the lessons of practice, Agile methods brought a balanced perspective between the intensions of the stakeholder, the management function, and developers. As an evolutionary progression, trends towards rapid continuous delivery have witnessed the advent of DevOps where advances in tooling, technologies, and the environment of both development and consumption exert a new dynamic into the Agile oeuvre. We investigate the progression from Agile to DevOps from a Critical Social Theoretic perspective to examine a paradox in agility – what does an always-on conceptualization of production forestall and impinge upon the processes of reflection and renewal that are also endemic to Agile methods? This paper is offered as a catalyst for critical examination and as an overt call to action to engage in emancipatory scholarship in advocacy for the Agile development team. Under threat of disenfranchisement and relegation to automation, we question how a tilt towards DevOps will preserve key elements in the tenets and principles of the Agile methods phenomenon. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9579 Files in this item: 1
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Figueroa, Maria Josefina (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: One of the most pressing contemporary challenges is the need for inclusion of vast number of people in urban innovation processes and societal systemic solutions to tackle sustainability inequality climate change and other major challenges. But there is little understanding of what role civil society organizations (CSO) can play to sustain, help propagate and preserve gains from these solutions and how increasing market commodification and governing interventions may affect these efforts. One result of this lack of understanding is reflected in the expectation that entrepreneurs will solve environmental problems in cities. This paper contributes knowledge to the emerging literature on the impact of social innovation with a comparative qualitative empirical case analysis in the field of promotion of sharing space for bicycle use in four European cities. The analysis demonstrates a strong relationship between the presence, vitality and variety of CSO social innovation and the cities’ success in promoting greater social inclusion in the use of public space for bicycling. It is concluded that in the field of sharing space and promotion of bicycle use social innovation has a strong role to play. Over time, it can open venues for collective meaning formation, and help in propagation and preservation of values and ideas that can lend support to scaling up opportunities for these solutions. Scaling up bicycle use will require unabated support to civil society’s social innovation capabilities with emphasis of equal measure to those given today to commercial, planning and legislative actions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9584 Files in this item: 1
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Kock, Florian; Zenker, S.; Josiassen, A. (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Traditionally, tourists spend their holidays in tourist spaces that provide the needed infrastructure for their experiences (i.e., hotels, restaurants, sight-seeing spots). However, nowadays tourists often occupy more residential space than in the past; this development is fuelled at least by two important trends in tourism. First, destination marketing organizations (DMO’s) increasingly seek to intertwine tourists‘ paths with local neighbourhood in order to create perceived tourist authenticity (e.g. the ‘localhood’ strategy of various city tourism organizations; Wonderful Copenhagen, 2017). Second, shared economy offerings, such as Airbnb, create tourist spaces in residential areas (Gutierrez et al., 2017). Both developments result in the integration of tourists into the residents’ living sphere, and anecdotal evidence indicates that this does not come without fraction between residents and tourists (e.g., Andereck et al., 2005; Gutierrez et al., 2017; Yang et al., 2013). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9589 Files in this item: 1
Iceland conference abstract_final.pdf (126.0Kb) -
Exploring the Linkage Between Team Diversity and Micro-practices of (in)equalityHolck, Lotte (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This qualitative study explores the intricate linkage between organizing in diverse teams and relational (in)equality. Literature on diversity in teams predominantly applies a positivist approach prescriptive of how to compose the ‘successful’ diverse team while drawing up process gains and losses. Relying on an ethnographic study of diverse teams in a Danish subsidiary of a multinational service company renowned for its diversity profile and organizing work in diverse teams this article gives a nuanced picture of the relational dynamics of diverse teams both hindering and increasing relational (in)equality. It is explored how diversity is linked to paradoxical processes of gendered and ethnified hierarchies based in stereotypical in- and out-groups as well as (organic) solidarity through difference. Drawing on these paradoxical processes, the analysis unfolds how equality in diverse teams might be fostered by team practices that stress members’ heterogeneity and avoid reducing minority members to mere representatives of a (stigmatized) social group. These are furthermore team practices that strengthening team solidarity trough openness to difference. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9557 Files in this item: 1
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Empowering and Exploitive Practices in the Quest for Inclusive Team OrganisationHolck, Lotte (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: It is generally acknowledged that ethnic-minority employees are excluded or marginalized as low-skilled labour in the workplace (e.g. Ahonen et al, 2014; Gotsis and Kortzi, 2015; Johansson and Śliwa, 2014; Ortlieb and Sieben, 2013; Zanoni and Janssens, 2015). This is also the situation in Denmark that has experienced a growing diversity at the labour market for the past 25 years (Ejrnæs, 2012; Holck, 2016; Holck and Muhr, 2017; Romani et al, 2016). However, Danish organisations are increasingly encouraged to include a diverse group of employees drawing on business case arguments from diversity management literature. Two of the most predominant arguments for hiring diverse employees are either related to competences affiliated with minority background driving innovation and creativity potential or as mere labour; a way to obtain allegedly loyal, hardworking and low cost labour. In relation to the first mentioned, ethnically diverse and inclusive work teams are advocated to increase return on equity by promoting problem solving, creativity, and innovation via individually different perspectives and approaches to job tasks drawing on insights from literature on learning as well as group processes (Mitchell et al., 2015; Thatcher and Patel, 2012). The latter mentioned, which is rarely explicitly advocated by companies but are none the less the most prominent reason to employ minorities – at least according to literature – is the quest for low labor costs and a supposed “right attitude to work” (Johansson and Śliwa, 2014; Ortlieb and Sieben, 2013; Zanoni and Janssens, 2015). Often, ethnic minorities are hired under job conditions unattractive to the majority, including low wages, poor career prospects, and low reputation combined with minorities’ lower bargaining power, presumed high adaptability and flexibility (Ahonen et al., 2014; Gotsis and Kortzi, 2015; Holck and Muhr, 2017). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9559 Files in this item: 1
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Glückstad, Fumiko Kano (Fredeiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In connection to this challenge session “5C: Comprehending Consumers: Computing Complexity of Cultures”, I introduce a new initiative a so called “UMAMI: Understanding Mindsets Across Markets, Internationally”, a four-year project funded by the Danish government. The project combines the existing secondary data such as World Value Survey and European Social Survey, primary data collected via quantitative surveys measuring constructs used in the marketing and tourism sciences, and data available from the Danish tourism industries. The project further employs machine learning technologies for segmenting consumers and predicting segment-specific tourist behaviors. This presentation introduces the objectives and the structure of this four-year project for understanding mindsets of consumers across markets. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9577 Files in this item: 1
Kano_Gluckstad_JSAI2017.pdf (490.3Kb) -
Ougaard, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Marx’s body of theory can be divided into four interconnected elements. One is the economic theory of capitalism, as presented in Das Kapital, a theory whose relevance keeps being re-affirmed, especially in times of crisis. This relevance is due, inter alia, to the theory’s account of recurrent crises and large scale unemployment, the constant drive to concentration and centralization of capital, the compulsory drive towards labour- and cost-cutting technological innovation, and the tendency towards growing inequality. The second element has become known as historical materialism, Marx’s outline of a program for research and theory-building on human society’s development and change. This program has been developed and adapted in various ways and has suffered a rather mixed fortune of marginalization and occasional fashionableness in academia, along with intense internal theoretical debates, but it remains productive within the social sciences and history. The third element is the idea that capitalism is a progressive mode of production that eventually will build the basis for a new and better society, which will be socialist and eventually communist in the sense of a society where ‘the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all’. And the fourth element is the idea that the transition to this new and better society will take place through a revolution led by the industrial working class. These elements combine outstanding and path-breaking social science scholarship with a strong political commitment and a vision for a dramatically better, more free and just and more humane society. Undoubtedly this combination is an important reason why Marx’s ideas have kept and keep renewing their power of attraction. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9546 Files in this item: 1
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Ougaard, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The current international crisis has important similarities with the crisis of the 1970s that eventually gave rise to a new hegemonic project and associated growth model, later to be labelled neoliberalism. With a view to assessing the possibilities for a transition to a new model in the current situation the paper examines the first transition along three selected dimensions: the underlying structural changes that prevented a return to the old model; the relatively autonomous role of international organisations in diagnosing the problems and suggesting remedies, and the role of power relations and political leadership in effecting the transitions. All three factors are argued to be critical. The same questions are then asked of the current situation. Deep global eco-nomic integration along with environmental problems, lacking inclusion of people, rising inequalities and the empowerment of the emerging economies all present economic and political problems that cannot be ad-dressed effectively by neoliberal policy prescriptions. This is diagnosed by international organisations and in the G20, but there still are tensions between the new agenda and the legacy of neoliberalism and a new convincing hegemonic project has not yet emerged. The crisis is both one of hegemony within the transnational power bloc and between the power bloc and popular forces, right and left. This makes the question of political leader-ship critical, but Brexit and the election of Donald Trump has only served to aggravate the crisis. There is a possibility for a progressive turn, but also for a rather malevolent development. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9545 Files in this item: 1
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The European Higher Education Area and Copenhagen Business SchoolTackney, Charles T.; Zølner, Mette (Atlante, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This Symposium presents curriculum design and content issues in a Scandinavian business school at its Centenary. The aim is an exploration of an educational institution at the interface of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) within the historical trends of the European Union. We hope this step will empirically document how the goals of the European Higher Education Area are functionally linked with the entrepreneurial sensibilities of administration, faculty, and administrative staff during the concrete operations of work. The series of presentations are framed between trans-cultural epistemological foundations in insight-based critical realism and inquiry into how the institutional entrepreneurs – the program directors – negotiate opportunities, risks, and tensions in curriculum and program implementation. Detailed case presentations take up curriculum effort to successfully engage issues of interdisciplinarity, use of text production as a tool in support of project and thesis writing, and the use of plurilingual content based teaching in a cooperative learning model for European studies. The history of one curriculum model initiated to educate better citizens, combining interdisciplinary methods with language instruction, whose features have endured and diffused throughout the business school, ends the presentation set. Symposium discussion will be designed to invite participants, from within the EU and beyond, to join in collaborative practitioner research for the EHEA future. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9547 Files in this item: 1
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Business and IT Managers’ Technological Frames Related to Cloud ComputingKhalil, Sabine; Winkler, Till J.; Xiao, Xiao (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: While cloud computing is becoming a mainstream IT sourcing option, especially large companies struggle with the internal governance of cloud and the issue of shadow IT. This study takes a technological frames perspective to contrast the knowledge and expectations that business versus IT stakeholders have regarding cloud IT. Our interview data from 20 business and IT managers display the incongruences between these two groups’ technological frames and how this relates to their governing actions: While business managers emphasize the benefits frames of cloud computing and tend to undermine IT governance, IT managers stress its threat frames and their desire to strengthen the IT governance framework. We discuss how these frame incongruences are related and how they can be resolved. This discussion contributes to the literature a stakeholder-specific view that may help understand the duality of the shadow IT phenomenon. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9543 Files in this item: 1
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An Overview and a Research AgendaXian, Xian; Hedman, Jonas; Tan, Felix Tier Chan; Tan, Chee-Wee; Lim, Eric T. K.; Clemmensen, Torkil; Henningsson, Stefan; Mukkamala, Raghava Rao; Vatrapu, Ravi; van Hillegersberg, Jos (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Ever since its first manifesto in Greece around 3000 years ago, sports as a field has accumulated a long history with strong traditions while at the same time, gone through tremendous changes toward professionalization and commercialization. The current waves of digitalization have intensified its evolution, as digital technologies are increasingly entrenched in a wide range of sporting activities and for applications beyond mere performance enhancement. Despite such trends, research on sports digitalization in the IS discipline is surprisingly still nascent. This paper aims at establishing a discourse on sports digitalization within the discipline. Toward this, we first provide an understanding of the institutional characteristics of the sports industry, establishing its theoretical importance and relevance in our discipline; second, we reveal the latest trends of digitalization in the sports industry and unpack its implications for sports organizations; last, we propose an agenda for sports digitalization research in IS. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9542 Files in this item: 1
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Ougaard, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper addresses one of the “exemplary questions” listed by the panel conveners, namely: “How does the postcolonial perspective enable/disable the rethinking of theories and concepts considered central to critical IR?” This requires an explication of how I see the several parts of the exemplary question. I will do this in reverse order, beginning with critical IR. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9544 Files in this item: 1
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A Mixed-Methods Study of a Non-Profit OrganizationRazmerita, Liana; Tan, Chee-Wee (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Social media has given birth to a novel paradigm of knowledge management that entails both formal and informal communication to bring about collaboration via diverse applications. Through online conversations and virtual interactions, the advent of social media is accompanied by unprecedented means of sharing, externalizing and retaining knowledge. In doing so, social media allows the articulation of personal and collective knowledge for innovation and value co-creation (Razmerita et al. 2014). Emerging social-collaborative platforms in the likes of Podio, Jive, Trello, Yammer, and Slack promote communication, collaboration, and project work. These platforms incorporate social media and networking functionalities for realizing both synchronous and asynchronous cooperative efforts. This study hence takes a critical view of the adoption and deployment of collaborative social platforms in a knowledge-intensive organization through a mixed methods approach. Past studies have alluded to the instrumental role of collaboration and teamwork in driving knowledge creation, learning, and innovation, which in turn culminates in changing patterns of work organization (Brown and Duguid 1991, Weick et al. 2005) or technologyinduced organizational transformation (Leonardi and Barley 2008). Within extant literature, both academics and practitioners have begun to experiment with the usage of social media within organizations, hoping to either reap the benefits of lightweight informal collaboration among employees (Brzozowski et al. 2009, Skeels and Grudin 2009) or, more recently, to introduce new affordances into work routines such as communication visibility, personal and communal knowledge management, as well as strategic self-presentation (Leonardi and Treem 2012, Majchrzak et al. 2013, Razmerita et al., 2009). Organizations are framing the role of technology as mutual interactions between human agents and technical systems. Consequently, technology can be deemed to be structurally and socially constructed (Orlikowski and Barley 2001). As alleged by Orlikowski (1992), “there is no compelling evidence on the precise role of technology in organizational affairs” despite extensive investigation. We hence contend that an in-depth appreciation of both the scope and effects of technology, especially in the form of collaborative social platforms, is indispensable for deciphering the changing nature of work within organizations. To this end, we present preliminary findings of an empirical study that endeavors to unravel the impact of deploying socio-collaborative platforms on knowledge practices and innovation in a non-profit organization. Through a mixed methods study, we strive to provide answers to the following research question: How do knowledge practices affect innovation within organizations and what is the role of collaborative social platforms in facilitating these knowledge practices? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9549 Files in this item: 1