Background: Devolution and integration of health social care have placed increasing pressure on local statutory services, with a corresponding shift to community organisations. The voluntary charitable sector (VCS) is expected make the case for increased funding by providing evidence value impact. Aims objectives: This paper explores challenges compiling outcomes which do not reflect holistic n...

Far too often, there is a gap between research and policy and practice. Too much research is undertaken with little relevance to real life problems or its reported in ways that are obscure and impenetrable. At the same time, many policies are developed and implemented but are untouched by, or even contrary to evidence. An accompanying paper describes an innovative progr...

The availability of increasing amounts of information on the World Wide Web generates problems of information overload, that lead to increasing efforts for information retrieval on the one hand and increasing portions of irrelevant information on the other (see e.g. [Lawrence & Giles 1999; Lueg & Riedl 2001]). Research efforts address these problems (e.g. [Ho & Tang 2001; Berghel 1997]). Howeve...

Data Warehouse (DWH) projects bring together different communities of practice to create one body of knowledge and help increase the competitive advantages of companies. In this paper we concentrate on the role of DWH professionals as a spanning community in DWH development projects. We argue that each time DWH professionals engage in a spanning activity towards neighboring communities of pract...

We demonstrate how boundary spanning and knowledge brokering as a dual approach support the organizational agility of a software development company. We present the case of an organizational unit whose members engage in both activities within as well as between the company and its environment. We analyze the team's and its members' approach and identify well functioning practices as well as cha...

We empirically examine the innovation consequences of organizational knowledge brokering, the ability to effectively apply knowledge from one technical domain to innovate in another. We investigate how organizational innovation outcomes vary by founders’ initial mode of venture ideation. We then compare how firms established with knowledgebrokering-based ideation differ in their methods of sust...