Case Study Of Collaboration Research Articles

Perceiving Agency in Sustainability Transitions: A Case Study of a Police-Hospital Collaboration

This paper explores how agency was used within a police-hospital collaboration to implement a planned change designed to increase the sustainability of a cross-sector collaboration. A longitudinal, qualitative case study involving pre-and-post interviews with 20 police officers and 20 healthcare workers allowed us to capture multiple perspectives of the planned change over time. Analysis of case study data reveals three major findings: (1) organizations with limited power can have agency in cross-sector collaborations when they are perceived to have legitimacy and urgency; (2) the extent to which the implementation of a planned change influences perceptions of agency depends on the organizational context of the perceiver; and (3) different levels of analysis (i.e., meso versus micro) support different conclusions with respect to the role of agency in the sustainability transition process. More broadly, our study highlights the role of perception when investigating agency within sustainability transitions.

Community and Collaboration in a Shared Multi-space Office

Open and shared work environments such as activity-based offices, multi-space offices and co-working spaces have become more popular in recent years. This paper reports the results of a qualitative case study of community and collaboration in a multi-space office shared by six publicly owned companies in Finland. Using interviews (n = 29) and participant observation, the study examines how collaboration and community are understood in the six companies, and how they change during an intervention process. We argue that even though a sense of community, collaboration and synergies are expected to arise from sharing an office space, they do not necessarily emerge spontaneously without effort on the part of management.

A Bayesian Statistics Course for Undergraduates: Bayesian Thinking, Computing, and Research

We propose a semester-long Bayesian statistics course for undergraduate students with calculus and probability background. We cultivate students’ Bayesian thinking with Bayesian methods applied to real data problems. We leverage modern Bayesian computing techniques not only for implementing Bayesian methods, but also to deepen students’ understanding of the methods. Collaborative case studies further enrich students’ learning and provide experience to solve open-ended applied problems. The course has an emphasis on undergraduate research, where accessible academic journal articles are read, discussed, and critiqued in class. With increased confidence and familiarity, students take the challenge of reading, implementing, and sometimes extending methods in journal articles for their course projects. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

Understanding Collaboration: Introducing the Collaborative Governance Case Databank

ABSTRACT Studying collaborative governance has become abooming business. However, the empirical literature still struggles to produce robust generalizations and cumulative knowledge that link contextual, situational and institutional design factors to processes and outcomes. We still have not mustered the broad and deep evidence base that will really help us sort fact from fiction and identify more and less productive approaches to collaboration. The current empirical evidence in the study of collaborative governance consists chiefly of small-N case studies or large-N surveys. The challenge is to move from case-based, mid-range theory building to more largeN-driven systematic theory-testing, while also retaining the rich contextual and process insights that only small-N studies tend to yield. This article, and the articles in the accompanying special issue, introduces an attempt to provide this middle ground– the Collaborative Governance Case Database. The database has been developed to serve as afree common pool resource for researchers to systematically collect and compare high-quality collaborative governance case studies. This article is an introduction to the database, exploring its design, opportunities and limitations. This article is also an invitation; inviting all researchers to freely use the cases in the database for their own research interest and to help strengthening the database by adding new cases there are eager to share with colleagues.

Bridging Silos: A Research Agenda for Local Environmental Health Initiatives.

The environment and public health are managed by separate institutions that often operate in isolation from each other. This system is often referred to as managing in "silos." The resulting lack of coordination, inadequate consideration of cumulative effects, and diffuse targets for change contribute to the persistence of many environmental justice problems. There are many barriers to bridging these silos, particularly at state and federal levels. Local collaborations, however, may have greater potential for changing these systems. There has been limited assessment of successful local environmental health initiatives. This paper explores three case studies of local collaboration: lead poisoning prevention in Rochester, New York; promoting a healthy and equitable built environment in Duluth, Minnesota; and increasing consideration of community health in decisions around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. It develops a research agenda to inform future collaborations to improve environmental health equity through local systems change.

Framework and case study for establishing impactful global health programs through academia - biopharmaceutical industry partnerships.

The field of global health has grown with multiple different public and private stakeholders engaging in the effort to improve health outcomes for underserved populations around the world. There is, however, only limited published guidance on how to promote successful partnerships between academia and the biopharmaceutical industry. This analysis will provide a framework for developing successful partnerships around five central principles. This framework will then be applied to two representative pharmacy collaboration case studies focused on training and donations. Within the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), successful collaborations between the biopharmaceutical industry philanthropic entities and academic partners have consistently prioritized 1) contextualization, 2) collaboration, 3) local priorities, 4) institutional commitment, and 5) integration. In the first case study, the application of this framework to clinical pharmacy training activities sponsored by Celgene and implemented by the Purdue Kenya Partnership has helped the program transition from an entirely donor dependent training program to a revenue generating, locally administered program which is now recognized and accredited by the Kenyan government. In the second case study, medication donations from Eli Lilly and Company have been converted from a traditional donation program in one Kenyan health facility to a replicable and sustainable supply chain model which has been expanded to more than 70 public sector facilities across western Kenya. Adherence to the five core principles of the proposed framework can help guide partnerships between academic institutions and the biopharmaceutical industry to advance healthcare services for underserved populations around the world. As large-scale government-based development agencies continue to primarily focus on specific disease states, biopharmaceutical industry-based collaborations can help initiate activities in underfunded therapeutic areas such as non-communicable diseases.

Logic fluidity: How frontline professionals use institutional logics in their day-to-day work

AbstractThis article aims to gain a better understanding on micro processes of how frontline professionals use institutional logics in their day-to-day work. It contributes to the growing literature on the dynamics between institutions and the professional frontline. To further develop this field of study, a conceptual framework is presented that integrates institutional logics, vocabularies of practice, and narratives as central concepts. By adopting a composite narrative approach and identifying vocabularies of practice, the article interprets how frontline professionals make use of different logics to make sense of a new principle introduced in their professional field. Findings are based on a case study of professional patient collaboration in healthcare. The article composes five narratives that act as vehicles through which healthcare professionals use five logics: a medical professional logic, managerial logic, commercial logic, consultation logic, and patient-centeredness logic. It argues that frontline professionals use vocabularies of practice to assemble narratives that help them to navigate between a plurality of logics. It further shows that professionals move fluently from one narrative to another, critiquing the ideas of adherence to a dominant logic and conflict solving. The article finalizes with a discussion that advocates for a process studies perspective and a stronger focus on micro processes in research on professional performance in the context of institutional plurality.

Community development transformation of Cooper neighborhood: a Rutgers-Camden University and LEAP Academy school collaboration through sustainable development

ABSTRACT Comprehensive community initiatives integrating holistic educational approachs for children and families are vital to building and sustaining 100% high school graduation rate in a distressed urban setting. Despite numerous social, economic, and cultural barriers, the Rutgers-Camden University and LEAP Academy partnership has not only provided hundreds of children with a comprehensive education and access to opportunities, but it has also empowered them and their families as individuals. This university-driven community development intitiaitve was able to trasnform the entire city oif Camden, NJ through the expansion of an integrated pipeline model that prepared students, trained families and nurtured neighboring communities. Utilizing a case study methodology and appreciative inquiry framework, this study explores these university-driven programs when community members are included in the planning stages and are benficieries in the operations and governance. This collaborative case study provides many insights into best practices that can be upscaled within other community-based educational models.

Governing Collaborative Value Creation in the Context of Grand Challenges: A Case Study of a Cross-Sectoral Collaboration in the Textile Industry

The aim of this study is to understand how governance mechanisms in cross-sector collaborations (CSCs) for sustainability affect value creation and capture and subsequently the survival of this organizational form. Drawing on a longitudinal, participatory, single-case study of collaborative action in the textile industry, we identify three governance mechanisms—safeguarding, bundling and connecting—that coevolve with the rising and waning of collaborative tensions and the shifting levels of action in the CSC we studied. These mechanisms aided value creation and helped facilitate private value capture. We integrate these insights into a process model that visualizes the interplay between governance mechanisms of tensions and systems of value creation and capture in CSCs for sustainability. Our study contributes to the cross-sector collaboration literature by providing a dynamic and nuanced understanding of how governance mechanisms influence outcomes in CSCs for sustainability. We also add to the business model for sustainability literature by theorizing the value creation and capture system of collaborative rather than individual organizations. Our findings have important implications for policymakers who fund collaborative organizations and practitioners who manage or participate in them.

Making Sense of Maritime Simulators Use: A Multiple Case Study in Norway

This paper reports a multiple case study of a training center collaboration with three offshore companies and a coastline authority. Through a qualitative inquiry, we utilized the actor-network theory to analyze the common understanding of simulator use in these organizations. The paper argues that the simulator itself is an actor that can integrate shared interests with other actors to establish an actor-network. Such an actor-network expands simulator use beyond purely training purposes. It advocates that the simulator is a medium between maritime academia and industry and aligns it with the same actor-network to facilitate the process of “meaning construction.” Such a meaning construction process offers simulator-based training with a valuable definition of the learning outcomes. It helps clarifying who will gain the benefits from simulator use in the future, as well as when and on what basis. The paper also reflects on the benefits and limitations of utilizing a multiple case study in the maritime domain.

Empirical evaluation of CMMN models: a collaborative process case study

Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN) was introduced by the Object Management Group as an alternative modeling language, targeting human-centric processes characterized by lack of structure and agility. However, although it is adequately supported by well-known process management tools, CMMN applicability as a modeling language is being questioned in practice. In this work, an empirical evaluation of CMMN models is presented, through a real-world case study where CMMN has been used for the analysis and implementation of a collaborative process by independent groups of process engineers. Their experience is being discussed, based on their modeling perspective. The produced models in the analysis and implementation phase are evaluated, using pre-existing metrics customized for CMMN. Based on the experience of engineers, CMMN applicability is evaluated, highlighting aspects in which its application might be limited, that should be addressed.

Heritage management, education, and community involvement in Thailand: A central Thai community case

ABSTRACT This paper presents a case study of a long-term collaboration between academic scholars and a cohort of local community agents and personnel in the management of an archaeological site in central Thailand. There is a brief historical background of cultural heritage preservation in Thailand, including various aspects of collaborative approaches for cultural heritage management. We discuss and summarize background, reasons, context for collaboration, methodology (types and methods of collaboration), collaborator typology, problems and obstacles, and suggestions for best practices in cultural heritage preservation. This paper also discusses public education and the awareness of cultural heritage significance in protecting and preserving archaeological sites as national and local cultural properties.

Developing a harmonized heat warning and information system for Ontario: a case study in collaboration

BackgroundHeat wave early warning systems help alert decision-makers and the public to prepare for hot weather and implement preventive actions to protect health. Prior to harmonization, public health units across Ontario either used independent systems with varying methodologies for triggering and issuing public heat warnings or did not use any system. The federal government also issued heat warnings based on different criteria. During heat events, adjacent public health units in Ontario and the federal government would routinely call heat warnings at different times with separate public messages, leading to confusion. This article describes the collaborative process and key steps in developing a harmonized Heat Warning and Information System (HWIS) for Ontario.SettingPublic health units across Ontario, Canada, collaborated with the federal and provincial government to develop the harmonized HWIS for Ontario.InterventionIn 2011, stakeholders identified the need to develop a harmonized system across Ontario to improve heat warning services, warning criteria, and health messaging. Through a 5-year process facilitated by a non-governmental organization, the three levels of government collaborated to establish the Ontario HWIS.OutcomesThe province-wide HWIS was implemented in 2016 with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s release of the harmonized HWIS Standard Operating Practice, which outlined the notification and warning process.ImplicationsThe lessons learned could help spur action in other provinces and jurisdictions internationally in the development of similar health evidence-based warning systems, including in particular those for protecting public health during extreme heat events.

How does collaborative governance evolve? Insights from a medium-n case comparison

ABSTRACT Understanding the performance of collaborative governance regimes (CGRs) necessitates an understanding of how stakeholders and their interactions evolve over time. However, few studies assess the evolution of the structure or process dynamics of CGRs over time. This paper contributes to our understanding of the longitudinal dynamics of CGRs. We apply a modified grounded theory approach to a dataset of collaboration case studies to develop empirically-based theory about how often CGRs persist over time, how different components of CGRs evolve over time, what conditions support or hinder this evolution, and how different developmental trajectories lead to differences in the outputs and outcomes achieved by these groups. We find that CGRs follow a variety of trajectories, from failing to initiate, to achieving their work in a relatively quick time, to sustaining their operations for decades, to incurring slow or rapid declines in health. Additionally, many characteristics of CGRs, including leadership, collaborative process, accountability, and outputs/outcomes, peak at the midpoint of the observed time, suggesting that at some point, even stable and healthy collaborations incur some decline in their robustness. As an exploratory study, this work highlights the need for a better accounting of how CGRs develop, sustain, evolve, and decline over time.

The show and gaze of intermedial interculturalism: a reflection on the curation of Otherness at PQ19

ABSTRACT This article is a reflection on the theatrical gaze that the author encountered in the 2019 PQ exhibition and PQ-commissioned performances. PQ calls for skills in curating performance designs that carry culture-specific symbols and that aim to represent certain cultures. Meanwhile as communication technology and digital media have brought intercultural exchange to a daily level, cultural icons at an international exhibition no longer easily shock audiences. Therefore, the intermediality of the theatrical gaze in PQ often succeeds in defying Orientalist impulses and enables ‘interweaving performance cultures' (in Erika Fischer-Lichte’s sense). However, due to some institutional and cultural barriers, it is still difficult for interdisciplinary art works, which are increasingly prominent not only in the exhibition but also in the performance space across the world in general, to emerge from China so as to effectively take part in the PQ discourse. These kinds of barriers must be removed if PQ is to engage with more performance cultures and support more creative arts with a cosmopolitan spirit. Perhaps the solution is to step out of institutionalized curation. Some case studies of student-led collaboration will be presented to shed light upon how innovative interdisciplinary works can be facilitated.

From Guests and Guides to Collaborators: Negotiating Roles in Design and Biology Collaborations

In recent years, the design community has started envisioning biology as a design medium and designers are entering laboratories to pursue designer-biologist collaborations. To ensure that these collaborations lead to rich outcomes, we need to better understand the roles performed by biologists and designers in these collaborations. In seven case studies of collaborations between designers and biologists, we found that strong role dynamics appeared during the collaboration and can be divided into four phases: discovering, defining, developing and delivering. We show how biologists successively act as guides, influencers, supervisors and librarians while designers act as visitors, apprentices, amateurs and lone makers. We found that, despite their interdisciplinarity, projects followed traditional design project structures. While biologists tended to take the lead on project content, designers framed the projects using their methods and processes.

Making:Archives – a case study of creative collaboration

ABSTRACT This paper reports on an undergraduate project, Making:Archives — Narrative Artefact, as an exemplar of collaborative good practice, expanding on its case study in the National Archives and History UK’s Guide to Collaboration for Archive and Higher Education. The paper examines the expected and unexpected impacts of the Making:Archives collaborative project for the stakeholders involved: the Institution, the Archive Service, its depositors, and in particular the students. Students have both struggled and excelled in the project, with the most engaged developing a range of creative and transferrable skills that have been repurposed in the creation of work beyond Making:Archives. The paper also reflects on the challenges faced, and numerous opportunities presented, during the co-creation, delivery and evaluation of the project, drawing extensive data gathered from student participants. The project is presented in the context of relevant literature from both the textile education, industry, and archive sectors.

ML-MEDIC: A Preliminary Study of an Interactive Visual Analysis Tool Facilitating Clinical Applications of Machine Learning for Precision Medicine.

Accessible interactive tools that integrate machine learning methods with clinical research and reduce the programming experience required are needed to move science forward. Here, we present Machine Learning for Medical Exploration and Data-Inspired Care (ML-MEDIC), a point-and-click, interactive tool with a visual interface for facilitating machine learning and statistical analyses in clinical research. We deployed ML-MEDIC in the American Heart Association (AHA) Precision Medicine Platform to provide secure internet access and facilitate collaboration. ML-MEDIC’s efficacy for facilitating the adoption of machine learning was evaluated through two case studies in collaboration with clinical domain experts. A domain expert review was also conducted to obtain an impression of the usability and potential limitations.

How partnership should work to bring innovative medicines to patients

Scientists increasingly find themselves working in bilateral drug development alliances. Alliances are conceptually simple, but operationally challenging, resulting in the value-eroding misalignment and delays that alliances often experience. This case study of an exemplary collaboration between a small biotech and a global biopharmaceutical company is based on 15 interviews and a lessons-learned workshop conducted with the principal alliance team members. We outline five repeatable practices identified as contributing to their success that other alliance teams can follow.

603 Fluid Considerations: Enhancing Burn Nurse Competency

Abstract Introduction One of the most pivotal points for any burn patient is the initial fluid resuscitation. Nurses must maintain burn competencies and be familiar with perfusion indicators. Diverse levels of experience, unusually low census, frequent staff turnover, and changes in resuscitation strategies prompted concern regarding staff education. We developed a new resuscitation course for burn nurses, and aimed to determine whether it improves their confidence and knowledge. Methods Prior to training, a 7-item survey and a 10-item knowledge assessment were distributed to staff to assess baseline knowledge and confidence. In January 2019, nurses were provided a 45-min lecture about the unit’s fluid resuscitation protocol, critical indicators of end-organ perfusion, and adjunctive resuscitation tools. Teams were provided information on a real case scenario and asked to create a resuscitation plan. This was followed by a collaborative discussion. Staff then completed a follow-up survey and assessment. Nurses were provided a copy of the unit’s fluid resuscitation clinical practice guideline and a copy of a peer-reviewed journal article. In April 2019, staff members were not given a lecture, but were asked to repeat the questionnaire portion from the previous course to assess knowledge retention. In August 2019 staff received a 45-min lecture regarding blood gas interpretation as it applies to burn resuscitation, common burn resuscitation missteps, and when to call the physician. Staff received a burn resuscitation checklist to improve nurse/physician communication. The staff was given a 5-item satisfaction survey related to course content. Results The initial confidence survey (n=64) overall average was 8/10 with 0 being least confident and 10 extremely confident. The post-training average was 9/10. One of the largest confidence improvements was staff with less than 5 years of burn experience, which increased from 6.5/10 to 8/10. The initial baseline knowledge assessment (n=64) overall average was 80%. The post-lecture assessment average was 94%. The knowledge retention questionnaire (n=48) average score was 90%. Finally, the satisfaction survey (n=60) showed an overall score of 94%. Conclusions Data gathered suggest that brief lectures combined with collaborative discussion and case studies may be an effective tool for enhancing burn competencies and confidence among staff, especially for those with less than 5 years’ burn experience. Since this was a small sample size and single-center project, more research is needed to optimize the approach. Applicability of Research to Practice Managing burn injuries, particularly in the hours immediately following injury, requires expertise and training. This project provides one method for improving nurse competency.