Individual and Organizational Approaches to Overcoming Stress

Overcoming organizational challenges to secure knowledge management

Incident management systems have the potential to improve security dramatically but often experience problems stemming from organizational, interpersonal and social constraints that limit their effectiveness. These limits may cause underreporting of incidents, leading to erroneous perceptions of the actual safety and security situation of the organization. The true security situation may be bet...

Overcoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation

We propose a relational theory of how change agents in organizations use the strength of ties in their network to overcome resistance to change. We argue that strong ties to potentially influential organization members who are ambivalent about a change (fence-sitters) provide the change agent with an affective basis to coopt them. This cooptation increases the probability that the organization ...

Epigenetic approaches to overcoming chemotherapy resistance.

Individual and Organizational Creativity

Where does innovation end and where do we begin? Innovation is a complicated and continuing process that demands individual and organizational creativity. To find refreshing authentic originals we need to rediscover purpose, meaning and identity. As individuals, our ability to communicate ‘the potentially creative’ fuels the organization’s innovative capacity. This paper investigates the set of...

Inter-Organizational Knowledge Community Building: Sustaining or Overcoming Organizational Boundaries?

Various studies focus on general networks within and between organizations, but strongly focused studies on knowledge sharing through social networks and communities within specific domains that are of critical relevance to the R&D organization are hard to find. Therefore, the argument presented here is explored through an empirical case study on inter-organizational knowledge community buildin...