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Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks – a conceptual framework
Read This publication is about value creation in communities and networks. It is a foundation paper presenting a framework for promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks and aims to be sufficiently rigorous for researchers, useful for practitioners … Continue reading
Posted in Community, CoP, Learning, Learning communities, Learning network, Network of practice, Networks
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Networks and Social Innovation for Resilient Systems
Complex challenges demand complex solutions. By their very nature, these problems are difficult to define and are often the result of rigid social structures that effectively act as “traps”. However, resilience theory and the adaptive cycle can serve as a … Continue reading
Posted in Networks, Resilience, Social innovation
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Civic engagement in a network society
Read The Pew Charitable Trusts defines civic engagement as Individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern. Civic engagement can take many forms, from individual volunteerism to organizational involvement to electoral participation. It can include efforts … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Civic engagement, Networked society, Networks
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Action research in developing knowledge networks
Read This paper describes the experiences of the Eastern Head Injury Study in creating a strategic regional head injury service framework using a collaborative action research methodology. The types of data, information and knowledge required to develop and support such … Continue reading
Posted in Action research, Change, Knowledge, Knowledge sharing, Learning communities, Learning network, Networks
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Social Movements and Current Network Research
Read – Presentation A closer look at current academic research suggests a sweeping paradigm shift towards network thinking. This outburst of scholarly activity spans very disparate research fields, ranging from complexity theories and traditional hard science to organizational theory and … Continue reading
Posted in Networks, Research, Self-organization, Social movements, Social network, Social organization, Theory
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Team assembly mechanisms determine collaboration network structure and team performance
Read Agents in creative enterprises are embedded in networks that inspire, support, and evaluate their work. Here, we investigate how the mechanisms by which creative teams self-assemble determine the structure of these collaboration networks. We propose a model for the … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Collaboration, Complexity & change, Creativity, Emergence, Networks, Self-organization
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The Art of Community Detection
Networks in nature possess a remarkable amount of structure. Via a series of data-driven discoveries, the cutting edge of network science has recently progressed from positing that the random graphs of mathematical graph theory might accurately describe real networks to … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Complex network, Network theory, Networks
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Social Enterprise: It takes a Network
The popularity of social enterprise—business with a social mission—is surging. MBA courses on the subject are oversubscribed and the number of social enterprises is growing around the world. But it’s hard enough to start a successful business; founding a social … Continue reading
Posted in Networks, Social entreprises, Social innovation
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Complexity and Self-organization
Viewer This article introduces some of the main concepts and methods of the science studying complex, self-organizing systems and networks, in a non-technical manner. Complexity cannot be strictly defined, only situated in between order and disorder. A complex system is … Continue reading
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Everything is emergent
Again, we have to stop predicting, and start nurturing the current situation in a way that good outcomes will flourish, independent of what that outcome can be. It’s not the outcome that matters most, it’s the road to it. The … Continue reading
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