Product Family Engineering is an approach to software engineering that seeks to reduce the global effort in producing multiple software products by actively governing the reuse of assets between the family members. However, Product Family Engineering is a highly knowledge intensive activity putting stringent demands careful planning and management in the organization. This paper presents a stud...

Psycholinguistic repercussions of early experience in informal translation (language brokering) were examined in two tasks administered to proficient Spanish-English bilingual adults who had extensive brokering experience during childhood and proficient bilinguals without prior brokering experience. It was hypothesized that experience in language brokering leads to a greater sensitivity to non-...

An open innovation strategy is increasingly being adopted by firms in order to leverage external knowledge sources to solve internal problems. However, there are challenges for firms to implement this strategy such as needing to identify, motivate, and manage external sources of innovation. Thus, innovation intermediaries such as InnoCentive are being established to assist client firms (seekers...

Under the Canada’s health Act, the health sector is administered and operated on a nonprofit basis by the public authority. The sustainability of Canada’s public health-care system depends in large part on its ability to implement strategies to improve its perform‐ ance in terms of social, economic, organizational and professional. Knowledge-brokering is an emerging function in the healthcare s...

The role of district research leaders (DRLs) in central offices has emerged as a strategy for improving the creation, flow, and use knowledge decision-making. However, there is limited information about responsibilities, opportunities, challenges inherent these roles. This exploratory qualitative study features document analysis to examine individual backgrounds, job demands, organizational con...

Abstract With the rise of research impact as a ‘third’ space (next to and teaching) within universities in United Kingdom beyond, academics are increasingly expected not only produce but also engage brokering knowledge beyond academia. And yet little is known about ways which shape their practices order respond these new forms institutionalised expectations make sense form academic practice. Dr...