In several energy applications, DC/DC converters are one of the most important components [...]

The purpose of this study is to introduce the network perspective to the transfer of knowledge between organizations embedded in different organizational contexts. This paper extends the previous studies in inter-organizational knowledge transfer by (1) explicitly considering the notion that organizational capabilities are largely collective knowledge, (2) identifying different networks involve...

91 HMORN 2014 – Selected Abstracts Health plan administrators and clinicians have pre-existing ideas of research that necessitate ongoing education and dialogue to address concerns. Using a framework of change native to the health system promotes navigation of potentially disruptive change. Given rapid changes within health systems, the research team must be aware of competing contextual factor...

In today’s environment of rapid technological change companies can not rely on incremental innovations alone. To sustain long-term competitiveness companies need to develop radical innovations as well. Such innovations typically incorporate new and highly complex technologies, create new markets or shift existing market structures, and require user learning as they often induce significant beha...

Collaboration generally refers to people working together as a team towards a common goal. Here we discuss a different kind of collaboration: salesbased transactions which occur between two parties who have different goals, which are nevertheless mutually interdependent. Findings from an ethnographic field study of the way travel agents and customers build up complex products (e.g. round-thewor...

a novel zinc oxide - agar nanocomposite was successfully synthesized using zinc chloride as a precursor. the nanocomposite was prepared using a domestic microwave oven. the prepared nanocomposites have been characterized by fourier transform infrared (ftir) spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction (xrd) analysis, scanning electron microscopy (sem) and uv- visible spectroscopy. the crystalline properties...

The benefits of health information technology (HIT) are widely accepted. Nonetheless, how HIT becomes embedded and transforms health-care processes remain an understudied area in the literature. In this study we extend prior research by undertaking a more granular examination of HIT systems’ impact on how non-IT resources are allocated to healthcare tasks and routines. The context of our resear...