Best Practices for Knowledge Mobilization

This review paper examines the question of how to facilitate a more effective system of community knowledge mobilization given institutional and cultural separation among researchers and community practitioners. Several perspectives are explored as the specific topic of knowledge mobilization has received limited treatment in the literature. Related perspectives include the development of organizational culture, cooperation theory, and theories of computer supported collaborative work. The paper seeks to find an adequate framework for describing knowledge mobilization in a community and a set of guidelines to foster better social learning among both researchers and practitioners. The paper finds that issues of relational governance are consistently identified, and that, even when purely technological solutions are being pursued, infrastructures that promote greater awareness of the attitudes, values and actions of collaborating stakeholders are essential to partner alignment and the success and longevity of cooperative community efforts. Best Practices for Community Knowledge Mobilization