In this study we provide a fine-grained description of the micro-processes of innovation through a qualitative study of the implementation of telemedicine innovation in a healthcare organization. Our qualitative analysis uses a mix of participant interviews, observation techniques and archival data sources. We use the concept of translation to describe the movement of ideas and practices through social interrelationships. Our results suggest that the implementation of innovation involving changes in extant institutional practices is a result of a translation during which actors assess not only their specific role within a given institutional practice but also how their actions influence the broad outcome. Our results bring to the fore the role that interactions between organizational actors and institutional practices play in the implementation of innovation. Consistent with the translation perspective, our results suggest that the implementation of innovation is mainly an organizational change process facilitated by a concurrence of meaning or the lack of it lack among organizational actors. Our study provides new evidence on the institutional practices that are created, maintained, modified as well as disrupted during the implementation of externally developed innovation.
La interrelación entre cambio organizacional, tecnológico e institucional ha sido ampliamente estudiada desde diferentes teorías. Sin embargo, poco se ha explorado sobre ¿cómo con la introducción de una nueva tecnología se entrelazan las propiedades materiales de la tecnología con los arreglos sociales del contexto donde se implementan, generando cambios en las tecnologías, organizaciones e instituciones?, convirtiéndose en nuestra pregunta de investigación. El estudio parte de una revisión de teorías de cambio organizacional, institucional y tecnológico, identificando diferencias y complementariedades entre sus conceptos, generando así una propuesta teórica para analizar la interacción de actores no-humanos con las prácticas institucionalizadas de actores humanos en la implementación de tecnologías desde la Teoría Actor-Red y el Trabajo Institucional.
Business internships are part of the wide range of situations that support productive in the University-Industry collaboration. In this context, business practices become favorable places where both business objectives and universities converge. This paper aims to understand two topics. Firstly, the fundamentals of business internships as a component of training by having real-world problems and based on relevant characterization of these experiences. Secondly the paper proposes a methodology of how to achieve internships as a place to search common objectives between the firms and universities. For this second objective is proposed a conceptual model to identify problems together, taking advantage of experience for businesses and updated knowledge developed within the university.Keywords: ideation; business internships, identification of problems, systematic techniques for generating ideas; universitybusiness-state; convergent thinking, divergent thinking, conceptual model of relationship; problem solving; brainstorming.Las prácticas o pasantías empresariales son parte de la amplia gama de situaciones que soportan las colaboraciones productivas en la relación Universidad-Empresa. En este contexto, las prácticas empresariales se convierten en lugares propicios en los que confluyen los objetivos empresariales y los de las universidades. Este documento está orientado a comprender por una parte los fundamentos de las prácticas empresariales como un componente de formación y beneficio de experiencia a través de problemas reales partiendo de una relevante caracterización de la práctica, y por otra parte el documento propone una metodología de cómo lograr prácticas empresariales que sean lugares de búsqueda de objetivos comunes entre la Empresa y la Universidad. Para este último propósito se propone un modelo conceptual que llega a identificar problemas empresariales, desde una perspectiva de análisis, basados en la experiencia y el conocimiento acumulado de los procesos académicos de formación desarrollado al interior de la universidad representada en los estudiantes y otros actores de la comunidad académica.
The literature on Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) suggests incorporating multi-disciplinary approaches and mixed methodologies; however, the literature is scarce on how to select participants for the qualitative phase, within an Explanatory Sequential Design (ESD). This research applies and validates the Pathway participant selection method (MSP) within ESD, investigating the influence of integration with secondary stakeholders on advanced SSCM practices in SMEs. The literature on SSCM recognizes the importance of a rigorous qualitative case selection method, based on previous quantitative data.
As a result, the MSP Pathway selected the “precise” cases (SMEs) where the independent variable best influences the dependent one. The selection ended with a validation and prioritization of the cases by experts, according to defined criteria. The results demonstrate the applicability and relevance of the DEXPLIS method and its MSP.
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