Organizational Collaboration Research Articles

Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares, Connecticut River Valley, Western Massachusetts, United States

Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares, Connecticut River Valley, Western Massachusetts, United States

The development logic and future mission of open science

<p indent="0mm">Open science has become a trend in the international academic community, which will set off a new technological revolution. However, what is open science? Why is open science needed? How to achieve open science? At present, there are still some differences in the cognition of open science related issues. It is necessary to sort out the development logic of open science from a higher position, more systematic and holistic perspective, analyze its scientific connotation, and deconstruct its missions and tasks. After more than <sc>20 years</sc> of evolution, open science has formed a unique logical system and scientific category. (1) From the perspective of appearance logic, science has a natural public attribute, and the sharing of scientific achievements, the voice of public participation in science, the improvement of scientific research efficiency and the response to global common challenges all require a more open scientific ecology. (2) From the perspective of theoretical logic, scholars’ definition of open science has changed from narrow and abstract to broad and concrete, and the boundary between open objects and open areas has been continuously extended. However, the research on the theoretical and practical route of open mode is still in the exploratory stage. (3) From the perspective of value logic, the value of open science to the development of science and technology and social progress continues to expand, including the discovery and dissemination of truth through openness and sharing, and the promotion of a virtuous circle of scientific research. (4) From the perspective of practical logic, leading from Europe, a series of open science reform initiatives have been launched around the world, mainly including open science policies, open infrastructures, and open science evaluation. Based on the logical examination, open science will promote earth-shaking changes in knowledge sharing mechanism, scientific organization paradigm, scientific resource allocation mode and scientific evaluation system, and it undertakes particularly important missions and tasks. First of all, it is not easy to realize the missions of open science. It faces many challenges due to the inherent development paradigm of science, conflicts among multi-stakeholders, data security, intellectual property rights and ethics. Moreover, the transition to open science is a multi-level and multi-stage systematic project. It is necessary to establish a decision support system, build an open science culture, and realize the opening of scientific resources and the whole process of science from three aspects: System guarantee, concept opening and scientific opening. In addition, the achievement of open science goals and tasks requires the joint efforts of multiple stakeholders, including scientific communities, funding agencies, academic institutions, publishing institutions, libraries, and the public. In terms of organization, open science practice includes open sharing practice and open innovation practice, whose development and optimization need to be empowered by emerging technologies. By analyzing the problems and challenges in the development of open science in China, combined with the national conditions to make recommendations, China should: (1) Promote the construction of new scientific evaluation and incentive mechanism guided by top-level design; (2) construct multiparty collaborative open science organization system driven by scientific needs; (3) strengthen platform construction, empower open science organization paradigm with emerging technologies; (4) take global governance as the mission and promote the construction of a new pattern of open science national cooperation.

Cooling off innovation hotspots: smaller businesses need to look wide and deep

Purpose This paper aims to provide evidence-based managerial advice for identifying, developing and managing a broad-based innovation system for organizations to reap optimal performance outcomes. Design/methodology/approach The general review is based upon large-scale peer-reviewed academic studies of innovation practices in organizations and their performance outcomes and synthesized here through two illustrative case studies. The first case deals with Brightsquid Secure Communications as they expanded their product-focused innovation practices to include broad-based organizational improvements, while the second case focuses on Trimet Building Products and their use of broad-based innovation to turn around declining revenue. Findings Using the SME context, this study outlines an innovation management model that highlights the importance of leadership attention on organization-wide innovation and the interdependence of investments across functions.[AQ2] To enhance their performance, SMEs must implement broad learning programs across the organization that provides formal and informal cross-training and takes a cross-functional approach to innovation and problem-solving. Originality/value Reviewing and integrating the literature on different innovation types and outcomes, this study proposes a novel broad-based innovation model that guides firms that overemphasize improvements within a single function. Further, drawing on the learning literature, this paper recommends an organizational learning and collaboration model to achieve organization-wide innovation for optimal outcomes.

Puzzling Partnerships: Overseas Infrastructure Development by Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and Humanitarian Organizations.

Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are now working with humanitarian organizations to develop infrastructure abroad. This emerging phenomenon is puzzling: when, where, and why do Chinese SOEs, best known for constructing massive overseas infrastructure projects for commercial and political gain, execute smaller, lower-profile humanitarian projects? Similarly, why would humanitarian organizations--often with minimal experience in infrastructure contracting--select partners criticized for lack of emphasis on the international standards and best practices that they seek to promote? We address these questions through qualitative case studies of Chinese SOE-humanitarian organization collaboration in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and the Republic of Congo. These cases suggest that such partnerships are more likely when a humanitarian organization has previous experience working in China or with Chinese actors, when Chinese SOEs aim to enter new markets, or when these firms operate in dangerous or politically unstable environments. This study contributes to scholarship on China's evolving role in international development by providing the first empirical analysis of Chinese SOE-humanitarian organization partnerships.

Design of Collaborative Organization and On-Site Dispatching System for Multiple Water Rescue Forces

The coordinated dispatch of multiple rescue forces for water emergencies refers to the establishment of temporary institutions such as emergency headquarters, on-site emergency headquarters or emergency command centers by governments at all levels and relevant functional departments during emergency response and emergency disposal. "Intelligent emergency rescue under the framework is the goal, in accordance with the requirements of the established emergency management legal system, system and emergency plan, obeying certain command relations and dispatching principles, using certain command methods, and comprehensively coordinating rescue forces from all aspects. A series of activities to respond to and deal with security incidents. The coordinated dispatch of multiple rescue forces for water emergencies is formed into a system, and the intelligent technology of emergency rescue is used to achieve high-level data analysis, management and decision-making, and to realize intelligent analysis, intelligent dispatch, intelligent collaboration, intelligent generation and intelligent planning of emergency rescue. All-round management of emergency rescue such as equipment management, highlighting the ability of intelligent perception, intelligent transmission, intelligent processing and intelligent application of information. Based on the principles of lowest cost, least time-consuming, optimal power, lowest resource consumption, and efficient operation management, build an intelligent emergency rescue collaborative management platform with intelligent rescue and intelligent collaboration as the core elements, so that the intelligent emergency rescue management system has self-learning capabilities, self-induction, self-coordination and other functions, making the water emergency rescue operations safer, more reliable and more timely.

Launch meeting of the new World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance, Consumption and Health Care-Associated Infections at the Robert Koch institute, Berlin, Germany, October 2022.

Launch meeting of the new World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance, Consumption and Health Care-Associated Infections at the Robert Koch institute, Berlin, Germany, October 2022.

Control of low-temperature polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (PODEn)/gasoline combustion considering fuel concentration, fuel reactivity, and intake temperature at low loads

This study aims to investigate the control mechanism of fuel properties and intake temperature (Tin) on the low-temperature polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (PODEn)/gasoline combustion to maximize the advantages of PODEn in enhancing engine performance. To achieve this goal, two representative combustion modes of partially premixed combustion (PPC) and reactivity-controlled compression ignition with reverse reactivity stratification (R-RCCI) with different fuel regulating methods were investigated. In PPC, the fuel was regulated by blending PODEn and gasoline outside the cylinder, while for R-RCCI, the in-cylinder fuel was tuned by delivering the two fuels into the cylinder with two different fuel supply systems. The main factors dominating the combustion process and pollutant emissions were identified for these two combustion modes. The results show that the combustion process of PPC is dominated by the collaborative organization of fuel reactivity and concentration in the cylinder, and 50% burn point (CA50) plays only a secondary role, but CA50 determines the nitrogen oxides (NOx) emission level. For PPC operated with the start of injection later than −40 °CA ATDC, increasing local fuel concentration is more effective in improving the combustion efficiency and indicated thermal efficiency than increasing Tin. For R-RCCI, the lower local temperature caused by the heat of vaporization of the directly injected gasoline remarkably influences the combustion process, but this cooling effect is not significant in PPC. The comparison of PPC and R-RCCI shows that the in-cylinder local fuel reactivity impacts the ignition more significantly than the overall fuel reactivity. Compared with PPC, R-RCCI can effectively reduce combustion instability and combustion rate, and simultaneously 26% reduction in NOx emissions was accomplished.

Understanding collaboration patterns on funded research projects: A network analysis

AbstractThis paper provides an examination of inter-organizational collaboration in the UK research system. Data are collected on organizational collaboration on projects funded by four key UK research councils: Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The organizational partnerships include both academic and nonacademic institutions. A collaboration network is created for each research council, and an exponential random graph model is applied to inform on the mechanisms underpinning collaborative tie formation on research council-funded projects. We find that in the sciences, collaborative patterns are much more hierarchical and concentrated in a small handful of actors compared to the social sciences and humanities projects. Institutions that are members of the elite Russell Group (a set of 24 high-ranking UK universities) are much more likely to be involved in collaborations across research councils.

From Leadership to Agility: What, How and Where We Are Now?

The role of leadership has become an important topic in the business, management and strategic literature. However, the important role of leadership in building organizational agility is still separate and has not been incorporated into the existing literature. The present study identifies the trend of research and publications in the Web of Science and Scopus database in the last two decades which were analyzed using a systematic literature review approach. The results show that at present, both topics are very important publication ideas, especially how organizations deal with turbulence from markets, competitors and even pandemics. Furthermore, the trend of publications regarding leadership in building organizational agility is increasing both in the number of publications, topic selection, impact factors, citations and author country networks. This review literature study provides a comprehensive overview of future leadership to build organizational agility research and collaboration opportunities. Keywords: Bibliometrics analysis, leadership, organizational agility, VoSViewer

Population health organizational monitoring technologies in the Russian Federation

BACKGROUND: The present stage of modern civilization is characterized as a political, social, economic, and climatological evolution, with which the issue of effective functioning of the health system, population health status study and analysis, and ensuring control and management of the processes of public health formation is acute. This task can be conducted only within the framework of population health monitoring measures.&#x0D; AIMS: The study aimed to analyze the organizational technology for monitoring population health in the Russian Federation.&#x0D; MATERIALS AND METHODS: The data of expert assessments of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on the Family of International Classifications of Information Coding Quality and the results of the discussion at conferences on the problems of population health monitoring were used.&#x0D; RESULTS: The organization of systemic monitoring as a method of managing public health should include the definition of a set of informative monitoring parameters, as well as clear mechanisms for collecting and analyzing data. Additional parameters shall be possible if necessary.&#x0D; CONCLUSION: Monitoring should be based on a family of international classifications, but derived classifications should be developed and used as a link between statistical and clinical classifications. The organization of systemic monitoring as a method of managing public health should include the definition of a set of informative monitoring parameters, as well as clear mechanisms for collecting and analyzing data, with possible additional parameters if necessary.

A Framework to Build a Big Data Ecosystem Oriented to the Collaborative Networked Organization

A Collaborative Networked Organization (CNO) is a set of entities that operate in heterogeneous contexts and aim to collaborate to take advantage of a business opportunity or solve a problem. Big data allows CNOs to be more competitive by improving their strategy, management and business processes. To support the development of big data ecosystems in CNOs, several frameworks have been reported in the literature. However, these frameworks limit their application to a specific CNO manifestation and cannot conduct intelligent processing of big data to support decision making at the CNO. This paper makes two main contributions: (1) the proposal of a metaframework to analyze existing and future frameworks for the development of big data ecosystems in CNOs and (2) to show the Collaborative Networked Organizations–big data (CNO-BD) framework, which includes guidelines, tools, techniques, conceptual solutions and good practices for the building of a big data ecosystem in different kinds of Collaborative Networked Organizations, overcoming the weaknesses of previous issues. The CNO-BD framework consists of seven dimensions: levels, approaches, data fusion, interoperability, data sources, big data assurance and programmable modules. The framework was validated through expert assessment and a case study.

Early-phase prothrombin time-international normalized ratio in acute liver injury indicates the timing of therapeutic intervention and predicts prognostic improvement.

We investigated whether an early-phase prothrombin time-international normalized ratio (PT-INR) is an interventional prognostic indicator for patients with acute liver injury, including acute liver failure. This was a multicenter retrospective observational study. We included 595 patients with alanine aminotransferase levels ≥300U/L due to acute liver injury who were admitted to Kagoshima University Hospital or other collaborative investigation organizations between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2015. Patients with alanine aminotransferase levels ≥300U/L and no previous liver disease were defined as having an acute liver injury. Acute liver failure was defined by PT-INR ≥1.5 with or without hepatic encephalopathy in acute liver injury patients. Data were obtained retrospectively from case reports and analyzed. The PT-INR on day 1 was the most accurate independent prognosis predictor in patients with acute liver injury and acute liver failure. On day 1, the transplant-free survival rates were significantly lower in patients with PT-INR ≥1.3. The transplant-free survival rates were also significantly higher in patients with acute liver injury and acute liver failure, in whom the PT-INR had recovered from ≥1.3 on day 1 to <1.3 by day 8. Early-phase changes in the PT-INR can predict the prognosis of patients with acute liver injury and acute liver failure. Furthermore, PT-INR ≥1.3 could be an interventional marker, whereas PT-INR <1.3 after 1week could reflect prognostic improvement.

Gaussian process forecasts Pseudogymnoascus destructans will cover coterminous United States by 2030.

White-nose syndrome has been decimating populations of several bat species since its first occurrence in the Northeastern United States in the winter 2006-2007. The spread of the disease has been monitored across the continent through the collaboration of many organizations. Inferring the rate of spread of the disease and predicting its arrival at new locations is critical when assessing the current and predicting the future status and trends of bat species. We developed a model of disease spread that simultaneously achieves high-predictive performance, computational efficiency, and interpretability. We modeled white-nose syndrome spread using Gaussian process variations to infer the spread rate of the disease front, identify areas of anomalous time of arrival, and provide future forecasts of the expected time of arrival throughout North America. Cross-validation of model predictive performance identified a stationary Gaussian process without an additional residual error process as the best-supported model. Results indicated that white-nose syndrome is likely to spread throughout the entire continental United States by 2030. These annually updatable model predictions will be useful in determining the horizon over which disease management actions must take place as well as in status and trend assessments of disease-affected bats.

Emergency Cooperation Mechanism under Institutional Collective Action — A Review on Inter Organizational Collaboration

In recent years, due to the high-frequency growth and increasing cross-border nature of all kinds of emergency events, which has made the emergency management ability of a single organization in the face of all kinds of emergencies is not so prominent. How to strengthen the cooperation of different organizations in emergency management has become a major problem to be solved by the governments at all levels. Many scholars in various fields have also carried out a variety of theoretical research and management practice. This paper introduces the role of cooperation mechanism under the institutional collective action framework in the emergency management in the face of different types of emergencies. The emergencies are divided into natural disasters, social security events, disaster accidents and public health emergencies. This study found that cooperation mechanism with different degree of autonomy and complexity can effectively help organizations strengthen their willingness to cooperate, promote formal and informal exchanges, promote the rational flow and effective allocation of resources and promote effective collective action. And the binding and bridging mechanism is more popular with the organization participants in all levels of government when dealing with all kinds of emergencies, while other types of cooperation mechanisms focus on different types of emergencies according to their own characteristics. Through the in-depth study of cooperation mechanism under the institutional collective action framework, it also provides a new idea for the domestic emergency management.

Editors’ Note

Approaching its golden anniversary volume, newly affiliated with Penn State University Press, fully digitized and available through the Scholarly Publishing Collective, under the direction of a fresh pair of coeditors, and with its purview expanded to include Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture, the Victorians Institute Journal is well positioned for its second half century of publication.The present volume features articles with a chronological range from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries, a geographical scope from Britain to Persia to China, and a generic array that includes cartoons, fiction, nursery rhymes, poetry, and travel narratives. It also highlights the journal’s investment in the intersection between research and pedagogy and, with one rare and one set of previously unpublished texts, VIJ’s historical commitment to expanding the canon of materials available for research and teaching in years to come. The volume’s concluding reviews offer summative evaluations of five recent books in the field.Readers will also find an entirely new section, “Digital Deliverables,” focused on current digital humanities research. With one essay from the general editor of an established and highly visible project, the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education (COVE), and the other from the founding directors of an initiative, the Digital Dickens Notes Project, that is just taking off, these two pieces offer complementary perspectives on the exciting payoffs and potential of such computationally enhanced work in the long nineteenth century and beyond. We hope to replicate this format in future volumes, perhaps from those inspired by the work featured here to expand their own skills and approaches.Finally, we would like to recognize the generous and dedicated contributions of retiring editor, Don Richard Cox (Emeritus Professor of English, University of Tennessee). Since 2014, Don has brought to VIJ an invaluable depth of knowledge and experience and has worked tirelessly to enhance the quality and scope of the journal. Don was also key in negotiating our current publication contract with Penn State University Press. We are indebted to Don for his devoted and myriad labors and are most pleased that he will continue to be involved in the journal as a member of the Advisory Board.

Is online collaboration process suitable for digital youth organization? A design approach

PurposeCollaboration is significant but difficult for the development of youth organizations, this research aims to explore whether the online collaboration process is suitable for youth organizations' collaboration and improve their effectiveness and efficiency.Design/methodology/approachThis research has applied a design approach using the collaboration engineering method, to design an online collaboration process for youth organizations to improve their effectiveness and efficiency. Using a self-developed group support systems (GSS) tool, the authors have tested the new collaboration process through an experiment among four youth organizations and conducted a survey afterwards.FindingsThe new process improves the collaboration effectiveness and efficiency. The research also identifies the detailed relationships among influencing factors in the online collaboration process.Originality/valueThere is little research in the context of computer mediated youth organization collaboration. This research designs an online collaboration process for the effective and efficient collaboration of youth organizations and has it tested among representative youth organizations, providing practical instructions for digital youth organization collaboration in the context of global pandemic.

The Billion Oyster Project and Curriculum and Community Enterprise for Restoration Science Curriculum: The Digital Platform and Student Symposium Presentations

The Billion Oyster Project and Curriculum and Community Enterprise for the Restoration of New York Harbor (BOP-CCERS) program is a National Science Foundation (NSF) supported initiative and collaboration of multiple institutions and organizations led by Pace University and is in collaboration with New York City Public Schools. This large-scale project, Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST), generated a large amount of data through programming that engaged both teachers and students. This article presents the third part to the study with focus on the Digital Platform and results from the student Symposium presentations. Part 1 focused on Underrepresented Minority (URM) student interest in STEM as motivated by the original project. Part 2 focused on URM student engagement with teachers to support students in teaching science through experiential learning and lessons that connect science to the real world, particularly through science in the New York Harbor. Moreover, the second part of the study focused on teacher engagement in the program, and what the researchers had learned in the process. The third aspect of the study, and primary focus on this paper, had found additional positive results cited by the teachers in the study both using the Digital Platform and after the project outcomes from the student Symposium presentations.

The International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce (INPST) and the power of Twitter networking exemplified through #INPST hashtag analysis

BackgroundThe development of digital technologies and the evolution of open innovation approaches have enabled the creation of diverse virtual organizations and enterprises coordinating their activities primarily online. The open innovation platform titled “International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce” (INPST) was established in 2018, to bring together in collaborative environment individuals and organizations interested in natural product scientific research, and to empower their interactions by using digital communication tools. MethodsIn this work, we present a general overview of INPST activities and showcase the specific use of Twitter as a powerful networking tool that was used to host a one-week “2021 INPST Twitter Networking Event” (spanning from 31st May 2021 to 6th June 2021) based on the application of the Twitter hashtag #INPST. Results and ConclusionThe use of this hashtag during the networking event period was analyzed with Symplur Signals (https://www.symplur.com/), revealing a total of 6,036 tweets, shared by 686 users, which generated a total of 65,004,773 impressions (views of the respective tweets). This networking event's achieved high visibility and participation rate showcases a convincing example of how this social media platform can be used as a highly effective tool to host virtual Twitter-based international biomedical research events.

International Horizon Scanning the impact of Covid-19 on increasing the health gap and vulnerability

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented challenges for populations, health systems and governments worldwide, which have resulted in lasting economic, social and health impacts. The results of such have been felt disproportionately throughout society and existing vulnerabilities have been highlighted and heightened. A clear understanding of the extent of these vulnerabilities is needed in order to fully address the problem. The World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Investment for Health and Well-being (WHOCC), Public Health Wales has developed a summary report focusing on the existing and emerging inequalities resulting from the pandemic, as identified through international evidence and learning from the International Horizon Scanning Reports. These reports, undertaken between May 2020 - August 2021, are based upon rapid evidence synthesis reviews of international literature. The summary report focuses on global learning and best practices in order to better understand and address the unequal impacts of the pandemic. The information has been categorised according to the five essential conditions required to enable a healthy life as presented within the WHO health equity conditions framework. The report provides evidence on groups most vulnerable to both direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic as well as promising practice to address the resulting inequity. Inequalities and related factors explored within the report include but are not limited to, level of deprivation and education. Taking a global perspective, this report summarises international evidence to support inclusive, sustainable, and equitable solutions, such as protecting economic well-being and taking an intergenerational lens in both response and recovery. To address and mitigate the impact of the pandemic upon vulnerable groups, collating and sharing international evidence and best practice has proven to support equitable long-term socio-economic and environmental recovery. Key messages • International learning provides vital insights to support recovery in Wales and beyond. • Responses to the pandemic should address the needs of the vulnerable to reduce existing health gaps.

Sustainability objectives and collaboration lifecycle in cluster organizations

In our paper, we combine two issues, collaboration in cluster organizations and sustainability, aiming to answer the question: Does complex governance structure of cluster organizations support members in formulating and reaching sustainability objectives? Based on four case studies of cluster organizations and a still novel abductive approach, we present the ways in which sustainability was executed in their functioning. Our study shows that the role of cluster organizations in formulating and reaching sustainability objectives varied with regard to their collaboration life cycle. The “Formation” stage laid the foundations for collaboration and relational governance, the “Growth” stage aimed at improving the economic performance of cluster members, while the “Extension” stage impacted more cluster stakeholders with regard to the economic, social and environmental sustainability objectives. Nevertheless, stakeholders’ self-interest induced collaboration, whereas relational governance was its essential feature. Moreover, the potential of cluster organizations’ governance structures was not fully exploited in the context of sustainability, their structures have played a role in raising awareness, but it was more the competitive factors that drove companies to engage in an activity because they wanted to stay in the market, change the conditions and keep up with trends. Our research also provides practical implications for various cluster organizations’ stakeholders.