Knowing and doing; negotiating resource constraints through research

Bridging the Knowing-Doing Gap

Many researchers argue that information systems (IS) can play an important role in supporting organizational knowledge application. However, recent IS research indicates that knowledge management systems (KMS) often fail when implemented in the knowledge work practice of contemporary organizations. While KMS maintenance has been recognized as an important IS research area, imbalance between the...

Hospitality Management : Learning , Doing , Knowing

Doing Better By Knowing More

series of forums honoring the memory of Harold Richman, who, with his friend and colleague Tom Joe, founded the Center for the Study of Social Policy in 1979 and chaired its board from 2000 until his death in 2009. Harold contributed much to the field of children's and family services. His distinguished career reflected his belief that actions to improve children's and families' lives require a...

Change Management: Bridging the ‘Knowing-Doing’ Gap

Let’s be clear. In spite of the considerable energy, time, resources, knowledge and efforts we allocate to them, the vast majority of change projects in our organizations fail pretty miserably. Failure, in this case, means that the targeted performance improvements are not achieved, as the new ways of operating and the new systems and mindsets supposed to enable such transitions are not integra...

Rigor-Mortis: The Knowing-Doing Gap in Research Methods and What We Should Do About It

The knowledge base for conducting both qualitative and quantitative research in information systems (IS) is continually expanding, and novel tools are routinely emerging aimed at making the application of new techniques easy. This coevolution of knowledge and tools represents a bit of a quagmire for researchers: developing deep analytical expertise and maintaining it represents a huge time comm...