Knowledge mobilisation in public service reform: integrating empirical, technical and practical wisdom

Socio-Technical Systems for Knowledge Mobilisation in Communities

The most challenging, and potentially rewarding, aspect of knowledge management, and systems to support knowledge creation and innovation, is that of collective knowledge in a group or community. In this paper the term “mobilisation” is preferred to that of “management” as it is more closely related to creative activity. Technology used for knowledge mobilisation should be developed, not on its...

The Impact of Knowledge Management Strategy on Service Innovation Performance in Private and Public Hospitals

The main objective of this research is to investigate the comparative effect of knowledge management strategy on the service innovation performance in public and private hospitals through the mediating role of knowledge management practices. Drawing in knowledge management theory, all the organizations require a suitable knowledge management strategy to perform successfully. Therefore, this res...

Healthy Skepticism and Practical Wisdom

This paper explores and articulates an alternative to the two main approaches that have come to predominate in contemporary philosophical discussions of skepticism. These we may call the ̳Foil Approach‘ and the ̳Bypass Approach‘ respectively. On the Foil Approach, skepticism is treated as a problem to be solved, or challenge to be met, or threat to be parried; skepticism‘s value, insofar as it ...

Practical wisdom in medicine and health care

How do professionals in medicine and health care know what to do? How should they make the right or a wise decision in morally complex and uncertain situations? And what is the role of the patient in this decision making process? The first five articles in this issue focus on these and similar questions, be it in very different ways. Ricca Edmondson returns to the classic Aristo-telian notion o...

Knowledge and Wisdom