Methods: In this paper, we propose a social network analysis model to study how editorial boards integrate researchers from disparate communities. We evaluate our model by building relational networks based on the editorial boards of approximately 40 journals that serve as research outlets in medical informatics and bioinformatics. We track the evolution of editorial relationships through a lon...

This paper reports a 5-year design experiment on cumulative knowledge building as part of an international project. Through a longitudinal study and analysis of cumulative research data, we sought to answer the question, ‘what happened and why in knowledge building?’ Research data constitute messages which participants have written into a shared knowledge building database. A multi-method appro...

There is increasing interest in the ways that public relations is used to create and change relationships between publics and organizations. This paper introduces network analysis as a way to theorize about another dimension of relationships, inter-organizational relationships. Through a case study of inter-organizational relationships in the civil society movement in Croatia, this paper outlin...

This article examines the role of policy entrepreneurs in promoting change flood risk mitigation at local level Sweden through a comparative study two Swedish municipalities with different approaches to governance; as technical issue or social issue. The municipality which is addressed exhibits larger size network mitigating risk, more diverse actors involved, and central location politicians s...

One of the victims nationalist historiography has been intrinsically transnational culture learning that was so vibrant in United Provinces this country deemed a focal point international world scholarship and science already early modern period. The history Republic Letters promises to offer fruitful alternative nation-based history, precisely because its apparent transnationalism, mobility ci...

nanoHUB.org is a major engineering cyber-environment that serves over 110,000 annually. Engineering cyber-environments such as the nanoHUB play a critical role in enabling practice within their respective disciplines. They feature a variety of professional grade cyber-tools that are designed for the expert users. However, these very cyberenvironments play a fundamental role in enabling learning...

For more than a decade, healthcare reform has emphasized coordinated “patient-centered care”. To that end, policymakers have invested in integration of healthcare providers’ information flows. Research has studied healthcare providers’ information needs but overlooked communicative exchanges among participants in coordinating treatment plan decisions. Consequently, although medical literature a...

Information systems development (ISD) projects are becoming more complex, larger in scale and scope, more distributed, and span a more diverse user base crossing multiple organizational boundaries. Findings from prior ISD research may not generalize well to this setting. Our research-in-progress addresses this gap by examining the participation of diverse stakeholders in a large-scale, multi-pa...