History Matters for Understanding Knowledge Exchange

History matters for understanding knowledge exchange.

The narrative systematic review of 205 publications on the “relations between knowledge and action” in this issue concludes that “externally valid evidence about the efficacy of specific knowledge exchange strategies is unlikely to be forthcoming” because “collective knowledge exchange and use are. . . deeply embedded in organizational, policy, and institutional contexts” (Contandriopoulos et a...

History matters

Many years ago, two British humorists wrote (facetiously, but not altogether inaccurately) that " History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember. All other history defeats itself " [1]. It is a dilemma that all of us—librarians, archivists, informationists, whatever—have all faced: what do we need to remember, and for how long. When does today become " History, " with a capital H?...

WhyRespect for History and Historical Error Matters

This paper addersses Lawson’s puzzlement about the absence of prediction in William Harvey’s and Marcello Malpighi’s views on capillaries. In addressing the context of that enquiry, it also addresses historiographic versus philosophical models of science, contexts of discovery versus justification, normative versus descriptive interpretations of the nature of science, and the role of simple dic...

History Matters: Setting the Scene

Understanding Dimensioning of Knowledge Transfer Perspectives

Most current conceptualisation of knowledge transfer emerges from the premise of occidental heritage. This paper examines the dialectical procedure, underpinning the unification of knowledge as an entity, and discusses dimensions of knowledge and knowledge transfer from the practitioner’s perspective. The study asks why, if knowledge is vital for business success and competitive advantage, the ...