Framing innovation: negotiating shared frames during early design phases

“The Killing Fields” of innovation How to kill ideas

This paper points to seemingly contradicted processes of framing innovation, idea generation and killing ideas. It reports from a yearlong innovation project, where health care professionals explored problems and tested ideas for solutions, regarding a future downsizing of the case hospital. Theories in various ways describe the opening and closing phases of innovation. Exploration and idea gen...

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ On Cinematic Frames: regarding the publication of De-Framing: Essays on Painting and Cinema, Mehrdad Pur Alam

Framing as a Theory of Media Effects

Research on framing is characterized by theoretical and empirical vagueness. This is due, in part, to the lack of a commonly shared theoretical model underlying framing research. Conceptual problems translate into operational problems, limiting the comparability of instruments and results. In this paper I systematize the fragmented approaches to framing in political communication and integrate ...

Subjective Effectiveness in Agent-to-Human Negotiation: A Frame x Personality Account

This paper presents an empirical examination on the role of framing as a persuasion technique in agent-to-human negotiations. The primary hypothesis was that when a software agent frames the same offer in different ways it will have different consequences for a human counterpart’s perceptions of the negotiation process and outcomes. A secondary hypothesis was that the subjective effectiveness o...

Reframing Negotiating Strategy for Improved Outcomes

This paper examines techniques, beyond the traditional systematic approach to collective bargaining and negotiations, for public managers and human resource professionals, by exploring the formulation of strategies, through use of multiple lenses or frames. Three frameworks identified by authors Bolman and Deal are discussed, which include the structural, symbolic and political frames, all of w...