This paper is an extension of a conversation begun at the CARN2020 Conference. It outlines how accelerated, rushed lifestyle impacts negatively on almost every aspect life. In education, fast-paced life reflected in trend towards incessant production. lives university lecturers, teacher-educators, students and teacher-researchers, unrelenting demand for research output performance reports. mirr...

Action research is a small-scale intervention in the functioning of the real world to address practitioners’ own issues and carry out a close examination of the effects of such an intervention. Classroom-based research, or action research, can be the viable solution to some pandemic academic sluggishness and scientific apathy. However, the erroneous impression that research is an elite discipli...

supportive organizational culture for knowledge management can vouch for successful implementation of knowledge management. in the case of lacking this kind of supportive culture, the organizational culture is one of the obstacles which can lead the implementation of knowledge management to full failure and waste of organizational assets. in this research, a framework based on fmcdm was utilize...

With respect to disasters, earthquake is one of the leading causes of death. Its aftermath can be abated if proper actions take place before the onset of the earthquake. Various sectors in a country are responsible for managing disasters, but the lack of knowledge about the positive effects of their actions makes them reluctant to act decisively. Retrofitting buildings and structures, positioni...

This chapter is structured in two main parts. The first part offers a brief, and selfadmittedly stylized, overview and critique of dominant approaches to knowledge management and its links with innovation. Adopting a view of knowledge as socially constructed, it concludes from this that, where the specific purpose is innovation, then action concerns need to be as critical to knowledge managemen...