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Author: Ann Majchrzak Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030255573 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 302
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This book disrupts the way practitioners and academic scholars think about crowds, crowdsourcing, innovation, and new organizational forms in this emerging period of ubiquitous access to the internet. The authors argue that the current approach to crowdsourcing unnecessarily limits the crowd to offering ideas, locking out those of us with knowledge about a problem. They use data from 25 case studies of flash crowds — anonymous strangers answering online announcements to participate in a 7-10 day innovation challenge — half of whom were unleashed from the limitations of focusing on ideas. Yet, these crowds were able to develop new business models, new product lines, and offer useful solutions to global problems in fields as diverse as health care insurance, software development, and societal change. This book, which offers a theory of collective production of innovative solutions explaining the practices that the crowds organically followed, will revolutionize current assumptions about how innovation and crowdsourcing should be managed for commercial as well as societal purposes.
Author: Ann Majchrzak Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030255573 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 302
Book Description
This book disrupts the way practitioners and academic scholars think about crowds, crowdsourcing, innovation, and new organizational forms in this emerging period of ubiquitous access to the internet. The authors argue that the current approach to crowdsourcing unnecessarily limits the crowd to offering ideas, locking out those of us with knowledge about a problem. They use data from 25 case studies of flash crowds — anonymous strangers answering online announcements to participate in a 7-10 day innovation challenge — half of whom were unleashed from the limitations of focusing on ideas. Yet, these crowds were able to develop new business models, new product lines, and offer useful solutions to global problems in fields as diverse as health care insurance, software development, and societal change. This book, which offers a theory of collective production of innovative solutions explaining the practices that the crowds organically followed, will revolutionize current assumptions about how innovation and crowdsourcing should be managed for commercial as well as societal purposes.
Author: Antonius C. G. M. Robben Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812203313 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 481
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For decades, Argentina's population was subject to human rights violations ranging from the merely disruptive to the abominable. Violence pervaded Argentine social and cultural life in the repression of protest crowds, a ruthless counterinsurgency campaign, massive numbers of abductions, instances of torture, and innumerable assassinations. Despite continued repression, thousands of parents searched for their disappeared children, staging street protests that eventually marshaled international support. Challenging the notion that violence simply breeds more violence, Antonius C. G. M. Robben's provocative study argues that in Argentina violence led to trauma, and that trauma bred more violence. In this work of superior scholarship, Robben analyzes the historical dynamic through which Argentina became entangled in a web of violence spun out of repeated traumatization of political adversaries. This violence-trauma-violence cycle culminated in a cultural war that "disappeared" more than ten thousand people and caused millions to live in fear. Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina demonstrates through a groundbreaking multilevel analysis the process by which different historical strands of violence coalesced during the 1970s into an all-out military assault on Argentine society and culture. Combining history and anthropology, this compelling book rests on thorough archival research; participant observation of mass demonstrations, exhumations, and reburials; gripping interviews with military officers, guerrilla commanders, human rights leaders, and former disappeared captives. Robben's penetrating analysis of the trauma of Argentine society is of great importance for our understanding of other societies undergoing similar crimes against humanity.
Author: Rodríguez Bolívar, Manuel Pedro Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1799815285 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 258
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The development of social technologies has brought about a new era of political planning and government interactions. In addition to reducing costs in city resource management, ICT and social media can be used in emergency situations as a mechanism for citizen engagement, to facilitate public administration communication, etc. In spite of all these advantages, the application of technologies by governments and the public sector has also fostered debate in terms of cyber security due to the vulnerabilities and risks that can befall different stakeholders. It is necessary to review the most recent research about the implementation of ICTs in the public sector with the aim of understanding both the strengths and the vulnerabilities that the management models can entail. Digital Government and Achieving E-Public Participation: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of ICT implementation in the public sector that seeks to allow readers to understand how ICTs have forced public administrations to undertake reforms to both their workflow and their means of interacting with citizens. While highlighting topics including e-government, emergency communications, and urban planning, this book is ideally designed for government officials, public administrators, public managers, policy holders, policymakers, public consultants, professionals, academicians, students, and researchers seeking current research on the digital communication channels between elected officials and the citizens they represent.
Author: Henry Chesbrough Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192899813 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 1009
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This Handbook seeks to be the definitive reference for the large and growing field of Open Innovation. A comprehensive collection of short and authoritative chapters, the volume summarizes the most vital research published in Open Innovation. It is an essential reference for seasoned scholars, a welcome introduction for junior scholars, and a kick-start package for undergraduate and MBA students. Four editors, 75 reviewers, and 136 contributors collaboratively developed 57 chapter handbook chapters. These present the current state of the art featuring academic theory and managerial practice as well as the outlook for how open innovation should be further developed. The empirical, conceptual, and practical insights of the handbook highlight the importance of strengthening practice-inspired research and purposeful knowledge exchanges between individuals, organizations, and ecosystems.
Author: Kai Wiegandt Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317156889 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 228
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In this study, the author offers new interpretations of Shakespeare's works in the context of two major contemporary notions of collectivity: the crowd and rumour. The plays illustrate that rumour and crowd are mutually dependent; they also betray a fascination with the fact that crowd and rumour make individuality disappear. Shakespeare dramatizes these mechanisms, relating the crowd to class conflict, to rhetoric, to the theatre and to the organization of the state; and linking rumour to fear, to fame and to philosophical doubt. Paying attention to all levels of collectivity, Wiegandt emphasizes the close relationship between the crowd onstage and the Elizabethan audience. He argues that there was a significant - and sometimes precarious - metatheatrical blurring between the crowd on the stage and the crowd around the stage in performances of crowd scenes. The book's focus on crowd and rumour provides fresh insights on the central problems of some of Shakespeare's most contentiously debated plays, and offers an alternative to the dominant tradition of celebrating Shakespeare as the origin of modern individualism.
Author: Chidozie Charles Nnaji Publisher: Europa Edizioni ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 103
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People are creatures of habit and, as such, they like to act in the same way. No matter how much they wish for any kind of change to happen, they keep on the same path, not swerving from the vicious cycle of their mistakes. Then, how can people be sure to achieve new, happy results? The answer is simple: by changing approach. With this in mind, The Gateway To Personal Transformation, through a direct and engaging prose, aims to provide guiding principles that people can adopt in their everyday lives to become the best versions of themselves. Chidozie Charles Nnaji is a pastor, a counsellor and a professor of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nigeria. He obtained his first degree in Department of Civil Engineering and his M.Eng and Ph.D in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering from the University of Nigeria in 2007 and 2011 respectively. He is also the current Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious Nigerian Journal of Technology. The Gateway to Personal Transformation is his first non-scholarly publication which was completed within fifteen days. Prior to this book, he published approximately eighty journal articles and penned numerous inspirational quotes, which are also slated for publication. He is married to Nnenna Favour Nnaji, and they have four kids.
Author: Jacques Ranciere Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1509558691 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 120
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The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago, promising an age of consensus in which the dispassionate consideration of objective problems would give birth to a world at peace. Today, these grand hopes lie in ruins, and the era touted as new has turned out to be remarkably similar to the old order. To understand why this might be so, we need to examine the nature of the consensus itself, which is not the peace that it promised but rather the map of a territory on which new forms of warfare are being waged. The objective reality that imposed itself at the end of the 1990s was an absolutized and globalized capitalism which has produced ever more inequality, exclusion and hate. In this book Jacques Rancière delivers a frank and piercing critique of the globalized capitalist consensus. The invasion of Iraq, the riots on Capitol Hill and the rise of the European far right all attest to the true nature of this consensus, as does the current state-sanctioned racism which exploits the disenchanted progressive tradition and is led by an intelligentsia that claims to be left-wing. At the same time, Rancière praises the dynamism of social movements which affirm the power of the assembly of equals and its capacity for worldmaking: autonomous protest collectives have proven themselves capable of opening breaches in the consensual order and challenging the post-1989 system of domination.
Author: David Carter Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0312342691 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 350
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In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in society literally overnight.
Author: Stephen Boucher Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000846784 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 678
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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the first comprehensive survey of this field. Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edited by three pioneers in collective intelligence, this handbook serves as a unique primer on the science of collective intelligence applied to public challenges and will inspire public actors, academics, students, and activists across the world to apply collective intelligence in policymaking and administration to explore its potential, both to foster policy innovations and reinvent democracy. The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance is essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners of public policy, public administration, governance, public management, information technology and systems, innovation and democracy as well as more broadly for political science, psychology, management studies, public organizations and individual policy practitioners, public authorities, civil society activists and service providers.
Author: Ann Majchrzak
Author: Ann Majchrzak
Author: Emil Lederer
Author: Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Author: Rodríguez Bolívar, Manuel Pedro
Author: Henry Chesbrough
Author: Kai Wiegandt
Author: Chidozie Charles Nnaji
Author: Jacques Ranciere
Author: David Carter
Author: Stephen Boucher