Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

Experience and Educationis the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education(Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the criticisms his theories had received. Analysing both "traditional" and "progressive" education, Dr. Dewey here insists that neither the old nor the new education is adequate and that each is miseducative because neither of them applies the principles of a carefully developed philosophy of experience. Many pages of this volume illustrate Dr. Dewey's ideas for a philosophy of experience and its relation to education. He particularly urges that all teachers and educators looking for a new movement in education should think in terms of the deeped and larger issues of education rather than in terms of some divisive "ism" about education, even such an "ism" as "progressivism." His philosophy, here expressed in its most essential, most readable form, predicates an American educational system that respects all sources of experience, on that offers a true learning situation that is both historical and social, both orderly and dynamic.

经验与教育 = Experience and education

How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

How to Do Things With Words

Attachment--and loss.

This research uses configuration theory and data collected from a major IT vendor organization to examine primary configurations of distributed teams in a global off-shoring context. The study indicates that off-shoring vendor organizations typically deploy three different types of configurations, which the authors term as thin-at-client, thick-at-client, and hybrid. These configurations differ in terms of the size of the sub-teams in the different distributed locations and the nature of the ISD-related tasks performed by the distributed team members. In addition, the different configurations were compared on their inherent process-related and resource-related flexibilities. The thick-at-client configuration emerged as the one that offers superior flexibility in all dimensions.However, additional analysis also revealed contingencies apart from flexibility that may influence the appropriateness of the distributed ISD team configuration, including the volatility of the client organization's environment and the extent to which the ISD tasks can be effortlessly moved to the vendor's home location.

Offshore Vendors' Software Development Team Configurations: An Exploratory Study

Over the last few decades, activities that are formally recognized as “work” have increasingly become important to the sustenance of individuals to an extent that they are seen as encroaching upon other essential aspects of their existence. Much of this encroachment has been due to work being viewed as a virtue in and of itself, the constant introduction of new technologies that have resulted in a blurring of work and life boundaries, and a general trend in which employees are increasingly having to take on a broader set of responsibilities (Poelmans, S., Odle-Dusseau, H., & Beham, B. The Oxford handbook of organizational well-being, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009).

Work–Life Balance: An Overview

Using a case study of health information systems (HIS) in Kenya, we seek to better understand how HIS afford or constrain the action of local actors in provisioning health care in developing countries. We developed a theoretical perspective based on institutional theory that served as a lens to interpret the relationship between institutions and users’ perceptions of IT constraints and affordances. We found how identities constitute sense-making devices through which users make sense of the cultural resources available in their institutional environment and use them to shape their perception of IT affordances. In addition, we found how contradictions between users’ perceived IT affordances constituted the source and means of identity work processes through which users either modified or reinforced their identities. The paper contributes toward an increased understanding of how IT affordances (or constraints) link to institutions, thereby influencing processes of institutional change and socioeconomic development.

Identities: The Missing Link between IT Affordances and Institutions for Better Health Care in Developing Countries

Contemporary thinking on organizational capability has been profoundly influenced by the resourcebased view of the firm (Barney, 1991; Eisenhardt & Schoovenhover, 1996; Peppard & Ward, 2004). The proponents of this view argue that firms possess costly-to-imitate capabilities (i.e., unique configurations of resources) that are regarded as the fundamental drivers of superior performance (Bharadwaj, Sambamurthy, & Zmud, 1999). While firm resources may be copied relatively easily, capabilities are more difficult to replicate because they are often tightly connected to the history, culture, and experience of the firm. Recent writings in the IS literature have examined the role of information absTRaCT

Development of a Scale to Measure Information Technology Capability of Export-Focused SMEs in China

A distinctive feature of Web 2.0 is greater interactivity occurring through electronic forums. Such forms of communication are increasingly playing important roles in ensuring the success of electronic marketplaces, online communities, etc. and therefore, understanding online discourse is critical. We use concepts from the rich tradition of discourse analysis to study these patterns. We note that online discourse, with disjointed sequences and multiple overlapping conversations, is quite challenging to study. Visualization enables disentangling forum postings into a comprehensive yet rich view. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how discourse analysis can be applied visually in order to understand communication patterns evident on online forums. We call our visualization approach a Communication Action Map (CAM), highlighting the action orientation of discourse and illustrate its use with empirical data from a crowdfunding campaign.

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Suprateek Sarker

Papers

Offshore Vendors' Software Development Team Configurations: An Exploratory Study

Work–Life Balance: An Overview

Identities: The Missing Link between IT Affordances and Institutions for Better Health Care in Developing Countries

Development of a Scale to Measure Information Technology Capability of Export-Focused SMEs in China

Analyzing Online Discourse: Some Theoretical Ideas and a Visualization Approach