Digital Collaboration Research Articles

Characteristics of Transformational and Distributed Leadership in Generating School Performance

To answer increasingly complex leadership challenges, a leadership style that can accommodate changing times is needed. Exploring the characteristics of transformational and distributed leadership as an effort to raise school performance is the research goal to be achieved.. This type of research is library research. The research data sources used are books and journals that are relevant to the title and study. Data analysis techniques used include steps such as preparing text data for review, reading all data, coding data, describing data, presenting data, and interpreting data. This research gives the result that an important characteristic of transformational leadership is visionary, where the leader will lead his team to move forward in creating change. While the main characteristics of the distributed leadership model are distributing or sharing some of the tasks and the process of influencing others, as well as the practice of a leader's activities focusing on an interaction between members. Transformational leadership emphasizes emotional awareness and individual empowerment, while distributed leadership enables flexibility in terms of location and time, as well as digital collaboration. Both require more collaborative leadership skills and utilize technology to facilitate team communication and cooperation. They are evolving to meet the complexity and challenges of the digitally connected work environment. Keywords: characteristics, transformational leadership, distributed leadership, school performance

Generative preparation tasks in digital collaborative learning: actor and partner effects of constructive preparation activities on deep comprehension.

Deep learning from collaboration occurs if the learner enacts interactive activities in the sense of leveraging the knowledge externalized by co-learners as resource for own inferencing processes and if these interactive activities in turn promote the learner's deep comprehension outcomes. This experimental study investigates whether inducing dyad members to enact constructive preparation activities can promote deep learning from subsequent collaboration while examining prior knowledge as moderator. In a digital collaborative learning environment, 122 non-expert university students assigned to 61 dyads studied a text about the human circulatory system and then prepared individually for collaboration according to their experimental conditions: the preparation tasks varied across dyads with respect to their generativity, that is, the degree to which they required the learners to enact constructive activities (note-taking, compare-contrast, or explanation). After externalizing their answer to the task, learners in all conditions inspected their partner's externalization and then jointly discussed their text understanding via chat. Results showed that more rather than less generative tasks fostered constructive preparation but not interactive collaboration activities or deep comprehension outcomes. Moderated mediation analyses considering actor and partner effects indicated the indirect effects of constructive preparation activities on deep comprehension outcomes via interactive activities to depend on prior knowledge: when own prior knowledge was relatively low, self-performed but not partner-performed constructive preparation activities were beneficial. When own prior knowledge was relatively high, partner-performed constructive preparation activities were conducive while one's own were ineffective or even detrimental. Given these differential effects, suggestions are made for optimizing the instructional design around generative preparation tasks to streamline the effectiveness of constructive preparation activities for deep learning from digital collaboration.

How does digital collaboration impact supply chain resilience

In the context of dynamic business landscapes, this study explores the interplay between digital collaboration, government subsidies, and supply chain resilience. The results unveil a nuanced relationship: while digital collaboration exhibits a negative association with resilience, factors like higher leverage, state ownership, and larger company size positively influence resilience. Crucially, government subsidies act as a key moderator, potentially tempering the positive impact of digital collaboration on resilience. This research underscores the significance of considering financial metrics, ownership structure, and external support to fortify supply chain resilience in rapidly evolving business environments.

Digital tools and digital pedagogy for placemaking

PurposeThe surge of digital technologies and information communication technologies poses a challenge to traditional placemaking, influencing how people live, communicate and connect with their environments. In response, placemaking practices are integrating emerging digital technologies, giving rise to digital placemaking. This digital approach aims to present new opportunities for establishing a sense of place, encouraging unique interactions and adding value to communities in social, economic, cultural and environmental aspects.Design/methodology/approachThis paper aims to examine the current landscape of digital tools and apps that facilitate digital placemaking. Conducting an extensive literature review, the research evaluates these tools based on their positive contributions to placemaking, categorizing them according to the aspects they enhance in the placemaking process. These aspects include social dynamics, cultural influences, environmental considerations, artistic qualities, heritage preservation, support for human well-being, urban development and opportunities for digital collaboration among citizens. Additionally, the paper explores digital pedagogy for placemaking, analyzing various tools for their educational approach, knowledge production methods and learning outcomes.FindingsThe findings indicate a growing trend in utilizing digital tools for placemaking, driven by technological advancements like augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence and the internet of things. Similar to traditional placemaking, digital practices are collaborative and context-dependent, requiring engagement from multiple stakeholders for optimal success. Notably, successful digital placemaking apps often incorporate interactivity and multimodality. Digital collaborative platforms can significantly impact placemaking and sustainable urban design, serving as effective tools for both bottom-up and top-down knowledge production and learning related to placemaking.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings of this study must be seen considering certain limitations. The scoping review utilized analysis of most relevant bibliometric databases, however, in the domain of digital placemaking there are undertakings by private companies, nongovernmental as well as governmental organizations which are not cited in the scientific databases. This limitation was tackled by using conventional search engines like Google and Bing to identify and study such projects. Also, it must be noted that the digital domain is rapidly developing and being integrated in digital placemaking. Even more, the artificial intelligence technology, which is being applied across all disciplines, with so far unforeseen possibilities, should be further examined how it is being adopted and implemented in the domain of digital placemaking and which are its impacts in the placemaking processes and outcomes.Originality/valueDespite these advancements, many digital tools lack a comprehensive approach to address the various aspects of sustainability in placemaking. Consequently, further research is needed to develop digital tools that adopt a holistic approach, ensuring justifiability and feasibility in social, environmental and economic terms. Furthermore, in alignment with the goals of the EU Green Deal, incorporating Circular Economy principles into the development of new digital placemaking methods and tools is crucial.

Designing a Digital Environment to Support the Co-production of Public Services: Balancing Multiple Requirements and Governance Concepts

This paper investigates the challenges of designing a computer supported collaborative environment aimed at facilitating co-production processes, i.e., those collaborative processes between Public Administrations, private stakeholders and citizens that aim at the design of public services, their implementation, and their shared delivery to the community. We argue that, for such a digital platform, different types of socio-technical requirements should be considered, i.e., those related to governance models and associated collaboration dynamics; requirements that may emerge from the specific type of public service to design; as well as user and technical requirements common to all e-government platforms. This research informed the development and testing of a digital collaboration platform that offers guidance on how to organize a co-production initiative and a network of stakeholders, functionalities to support collaborative work, and enablers (in the form of reusable knowledge and digital resources) to perform the sequence of steps to produce a public service. The lessons learned from the iterative platform development process and a preliminary evaluation study conducted with three Public Administrations in different European countries pointed at specific functionalities that are perceived as most crucial and at different appropriation practices that depend on the organizational structure of the involved Public Administrations and related multi-stakeholder networks. The innovation that is brought about with respect to general-purpose platforms for computer supported cooperative work is represented by the operationalization of co-production processes, with step-by-step guidance and potential reuse (with adaptation) of ready to use resources and processes. Based on the results of our research, general guidelines are also proposed for the design of future digital platforms supporting co-production.

A life through the looking glass: the development of a qualitative method, International Digital Collaborative Autoethnographical Psychobiography (IDCAP)

Purpose This paper aims to introduce International Digital Collaborative Autoethnographical Psychobiography (IDCAP). Design/methodology/approach This paper describes how IDCAP was developed to answer research questions about what it takes and what it means to recover from mental illness. During its development, IDCAP combined the diverse and intersectional experiences, knowledge and interests of an Anglo-Swedish research team with what could be found in different publications concerning the experiences and the mental illnesses of the musicians Syd Barrett, Peter Green and Brian Wilson. Findings IDCAP combines features of autoethnography and psychobiography to offer a novel qualitative research method. Research limitations/implications Whilst IDCAP was created to focus on recovery from mental illness and musicians, it can be applied to other areas of research. It shares the same limitations as autoethnography and psychobiography, although some of the features of IDCAP may go some way to mitigate against these. Practical implications IDCAP is a novel research method that is offered to other researchers to develop and enhance further through application. Social implications IDCAP is a collaborative research method that encourages the involvement of a wide range of researchers from different countries and cultures. It can be used to give voice to marginalised groups and to counter discrimination and prejudice. Recovery from mental illness is a topic of great personal and social value. Originality/value IDCAP is a novel research method that, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, has not been explicitly used before.

Digital Twin Approach Integrates Existing Facilities, Proposed Developments

_ This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper SPE 215074, “Digital Twin for Development and Subsurface Integration: A Window Into the Future,” by Thomas K.G. Gan, Elizabeth Sumadh, and Bhaminie Sagram, Shell. The paper has not been peer reviewed. _ The digital twin (DT) approach provides a virtual and digital representation of existing assets, spanning everything from onshore facilities to offshore platforms, pipelines, and subsurface data, all in one location. It has been used for the operator’s flagship Manatee project to develop three stacked reservoirs offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The DT was used to identify design modifications required at this onshore site and visualize proposed offshore assets. It integrates existing facilities and new design data, including site survey, subsurface, and well data to optimize well planning. Introduction The Manatee field lies within the East Coast Marine Area of Trinidad in approximately 92 m of water and consists of stacked reservoirs of clean and thin-bed unconsolidated sands. Production from these wells is expected to be processed through a new offshore platform and transported by the new pipeline to the Beachfield onshore facility. For a feasibility study and concept-selection stages, the DT platform played a crucial factor in visualizing and contextualizing development options and allowed front-end engineering contractors and operator teams to collaborate across multiple countries and inspect the location virtually. All engineering drawings, maps, design documents, and 3D models were powered by the DT platform. Key Challenges Traditionally, digital collaboration is performed through data and model export from different technical applications and results presented in slides and reporting documents. For oil and gas capital projects, typically 3–6 years elapse from feasibility stage to execution, deepening the issues caused by faulty corporate memory retention, staff movement, and project handover from different internal organizations. Manatee project teams were based in various locations in Trinidad, the US, the UK, the Netherlands, and India, thereby increasing the likelihood of error by using multiple sources of data. Furthermore, effective collaboration without a single source of truth of data can be an obstacle. Given that multiple software was used for model building, development-well planning, and satellite imagery, an inability exists to view 2D and 3D imagery of onshore and offshore facilities with the subsea and subsurface in one place. Furthermore, between 2020 and 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic led to imposed restrictions and limitations placed on site visits. In such scenarios, drone images and video data can prove useful to access facilities remotely. These challenges needed to be addressed by access to a centralized platform that collected, stored, and provided virtual representations to ensure continuous monitoring and efficient decision-making.

Beyond digital international tourism communication network for tourism quality improvement

Collaboration is essential for any tourism location to be successful in solving difficulties. The study aims to explore the motivations behind the collaboration of Malang Raya (Greater Malang), Indonesia. We focus on the prerequisites organizations must meet to participate in collaborative international tourism initiatives. We applied the qualitative technique. There are 30 informants from public relations, governments, scholars, media, international tourists, travel agents, communities, and tourism associations. We conducted semi-structured interviews and observations. The results demonstrate that the digital network of international tourism communication collaboration in Malang Raya is not optimal yet. The efforts made by the Destination Management Organization (DMO) in Malang Raya in the future will become a ‘diamond’ for improving the quality of tourism. International tourism will be brilliant, valuable, and of good quality. The international tourism communication collaboration digital network implemented: a) the digital collaboration between tourism departments at some universities in Malang Raya with some hotel companies and the Association of the Indonesian Tours and Travel Agencies; b) the digitalization of small and medium enterprises collaboration in Malang Raya, Indonesia such Batu Local Guide; c) online taxi which operated in Malang Raya destinations namely Grab and Uber to facilitate international tourists reach the destinations; d) for improving digital tourism communication network, Malang Raya has Malang Tourism Information Centre; e) Malang Raya destinations collaborated with smartphone sim card providers in tourism information services; f) Malang Raya has ngalam.co, and gumebyar.malangkab.go.id to integrate destination information and accommodations.

Gesture Controlled Whiteboard System For Digital Collaboration

Gesture Controlled Whiteboard System For Digital Collaboration

The role of English Wikipedia in mediating East Asian historical disputes: the case of Balhae

ABSTRACT With the expansion of the Internet in the early twenty-first century, public historical disputes between South Korea and China have become more pronounced. While existing research has focused on domestic Korean or Chinese digital spaces, the convergence or clash of these national narratives on global platforms remains underexplored. Our research bridges this gap by investigating the role of online platforms in shaping public historical debates. We compare the portrayals of Balhae, an ancient kingdom with contested contexts between the two nations. By comparing Chinese, Korean, and English Wikipedia entries on Balhae, we identify differences in narrative construction and framing. Employing Habermas’s typology of human action, we scrutinize related talk pages on English Wikipedia to examine the strategic actions multinational contributors employ to shape historical representation. This exploration reveals the dual role of online platforms in both amplifying and mediating historical disputes. While Wikipedia’s policies promote rational discourse, our findings indicate that contributors often vacillate between strategic and communicative actions. Nonetheless, the resulting article approximates Habermasian ideals of communicative rationality. This interaction accentuates the challenges and potential of fostering rational online discourse, the complexities of digital collaboration, and the quest for neutrality in open, decentralized platforms.

Empowering Digital Collaboration and Remote Workspaces with Workplace

Empowering Digital Collaboration and Remote Workspaces with Workplace

Slovenian Higher Education in a Post-Pandemic World: Trends and Transformations

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of work and daily life, with higher education being greatly affected, especially in remote teaching, work, and digital collaboration. Most of these changes are retained in the post-COVID-19 era, e.g., remote work has enabled greater access to educational opportunities and contributed to a more inclusive and diverse workforce. To investigate to what extent these changes impact higher education in the post-pandemic era, we have conducted qualitative research on a sample of 12 professors from Slovenia working in higher education, selected based on their extensive research, professional experience, and significant contributions to the field. The Delphi method was used for this study since its iterative process refines ideas in each round based on feedback from the previous one. Participants were given a five-day window to express their views and share their expertise. The responses to the open-ended questions were examined using qualitative content analysis. Research indicates that pedagogical and organisational characteristics such as the ability to adapt to changes, the capacity for resilience, and the willingness to embrace digital transformation are crucial for preserving long-term changes induced by pandemics.

Digital capability gaps in traditional industries: influencing factors and strategic responses

ABSTRACT This paper introduces the concept of digital capability gaps (DCG); the relative difference of a firm’s ability to design and control products, services, and processes by utilising digital technologies in relation to customers and partners. These DCGs matter as they affect SME’s strategic responses and the value-creating relationships. Our findings reveal that strategic responses differ according to the magnitude of DCGs: Large DCGs may offer the opportunity for ‘digital diversification’ by using the capabilities developed to enter new domains. In cases of moderate DCGs, firms respond by adopting the role of a ‘digital parent’ and innovate on behalf of customers. Finally, in the cases of small DCGs, firms may respond by forming ‘digital collaborations.’ Our study also unpacks the influencing factors that affect DCGs: the consolidation or fragmentation of customer portfolio and competitive landscape and the extent to which players have a similar digital pressure for adopting digital capabilities.

The impact of digital transformation on business development strategies: Trends, challenges, and opportunities analyzed

Digital transformation has become a crucial driver of business development, reshaping industries and redefining how companies operate. This review analyzes the trends, challenges, and opportunities arising from this transformative process. Companies are increasingly adopting digital technologies such as cloud computing, AI, IoT, and big data analytics to streamline operations, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation. Digital transformation has led to a focus on understanding and meeting customer needs through personalized experiences and targeted marketing strategies. COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of remote work and digital collaboration tools, leading to new ways of working and collaborating across teams and organizations. Many organizations struggle with outdated legacy systems and infrastructure, making it challenging to integrate new digital technologies. As companies collect and analyze more data, ensuring data privacy and security has become a major concern. There is a growing demand for professionals with digital skills, but many organizations face challenges in finding and retaining talent. Digital transformation enables companies to collect and analyze vast amounts of data, providing valuable insights into customer behavior and preferences. Automation and digital technologies can streamline processes, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. Digital transformation opens up new opportunities for innovation and the development of new business models, enabling companies to stay competitive in a rapidly changing market. Digital transformation is reshaping business development strategies, driving innovation, and creating new opportunities for growth. However, it also presents challenges, such as legacy systems, data security, and skills gaps, that organizations must address to fully realize the benefits of digital transformation.

Digital transformation in supply chains: Assessing the spillover effects on midstream firm innovation

Amidst rapidly evolving market conditions, relying solely on internal information and knowledge for innovation has proven inadequate. The emergence of the digital economy injected renewed vitality into enterprise innovation. However, existing studies have predominantly concentrated on the digital transformation intrinsic to enterprises, neglecting the impact of partners' digital transition on enterprises’ innovation performance. From the perspective of supply chain spillovers, this study evaluates the influence of digital transitions in upstream and downstream enterprises on the innovation activities of midstream enterprises. The results show that the digital transformation of enterprises within the supply chain exhibits a transmission effect, and the digital transformation of upstream and downstream enterprises significantly promotes the innovation performance of midstream enterprises. The mechanistic analysis revealed that the digital transformation of upstream and downstream enterprises mainly enhances the resilience of the supply chain by improving its efficiency, optimizing the match between supply and demand, and stabilizing the relationship between supply and demand, thus promoting the innovation level of midstream enterprises. Further analysis shows that improvements in the innovation output of midstream enterprises are reflected in the quality of innovation. When the upstream and downstream firms belong to the same industry, the supply chain spillover effect of digital transformation is more evident, and simultaneously, the digital collaboration of the supply chain can promote the innovation of midstream enterprises.

Taking back and giving back on TikTok: Algorithmic mutual aid in the platform economy

This article explores three genres of TikTok content in which creators and users collaborate to re(direct) the value they create on-platform toward specific needs, people, and causes. Drawing from literatures on platform economies, user and creator labor, algorithmic imaginaries and resistance, and mutual aid, we used algorithmic ethnography to identify and define major genres of content, eventually creating a sample of 192 TikTok videos (including comments and metadata) and conducting a thematic analysis. The videos and practices shared the following themes: realizations of on-platform value, tactics oriented against platform logics and monetization programs, shared theories of value, and digital collaboration for a cause. We argue the genres constitute forms of algorithmic mutual aid, a practice unfolding in platform economies that demonstrates people’s increased recognition of the value of their digital labor, and efforts to reorient platform logics of value, visibility, and compensation to care for one another.

Need Analysis for English Learning Models to Improve Academic Writing Skills and Digital Collaboration

The study of developing English language learning models to improve academic writing and digital collaboration skills is a phenomenon or challenge for lecturers in the Smart Society 5.0 era, both in international and national contexts. Unfortunately, efforts to improve these two skills have so far been partial. In fact, when studied together, the results can be more effective and efficient because the characteristics of millennial/gen z students are very technologically literate, critical, and authentic in working and learning in teams. In this paper, we specifically discuss the needs analysis for developing an English learning model using the convenience sampling technique, with a mixed-method approach. In consequence, the analysis is vital to improve academic writing and digital collaboration skills. The results of the analysis show that curriculum improvements are very significant and feasible, especially in implementing the English learning model to improve academic writing skills and digital collaboration.

The nexus between digital collaboration, analytics capability and supply chain resilience of the food processing industry in Jordan

The nexus between digital collaboration, analytics capability and supply chain resilience of the food processing industry in Jordan

Within digital collaborative teams, how can leaders promote productive knowledge sharing among members with diverse settings?

Although value networks and virtual cross-functional teams, which serve as examples of digital collaborative organizations in the digital economy, have grown in popularity, few studies have looked at knowledge sharing in these teams. Yet lack of knowledge sharing can hurt teamwork and value creation.So, this study integrates transactional theory of stress and coping and self-determination theory into the stimulus-organism-response model to better understand the mechanisms. We conducted an empirical analysis after surveying of 386 participants from 49 digital collaboration teams in 27 service and industrial firms.The results indicate that the basic psychological needs and both coping strategies together mediate the correlation between diversity-oriented leadership and organizational knowledge sharing. Surprisingly, competence and autonomy needs satisfaction are necessary for organizational knowledge sharing, while perceived relatedness needs satisfaction is the icebreaker for organizational knowledge sharing.

Research on implementation factors of product ecological design based on digital collaboration

To assist enterprises in adapting to the challenges of the digital era during the product eco-design stage, based on the synergistic symbiosis theory and the eco-strategy wheel, combined with literature research and expert interviews, this study identifies 11 factors for enterprises to realize product eco-design under digital collaboration. In this study, the Decision-making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method was used to aggregate the identified 11 factors into four factor sets: strong cause, weak cause, strong result, and weak result; and the Interpretive Structural Model (ISM) was used to create a multilevel recursive model of product eco-design for digital collaboration. The study's findings show that: digital collaborative product eco-design is a combination of intra-organizational, intra-organizational, and external organizational synergies; and digital collaboration improves the efficiency of eco-design technology acquisition. This research provides a scientific foundation for company managers to make product eco-design decisions in the context of the worldwide digitalization trend.