Considering the Artifact Ecology when Supporting the Evolution of Practices - Analyzing the Parallel Journeys of Two Teleconsultation Software in a General Hospital

The growing use of teleconsultation, especially since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, changes physicians' work at the hospital. In this paper, we set out to study how physicians have integrated teleconsultation into their healthcare practices. Moreover, we are interested in how teleconsultation software contributes to developing new medical practices and how the design of teleconsultation software can better support them. Based on 16 months of fieldwork in a general hospital that offers two different teleconsultation software, we have investigated teleconsultation practices through interviews and observations involving ten physicians doing teleconsultation and a telemedicine secretary. Unlike the existing informal remote care by phone, we observe that teleconsultation supports new formal healthcare practices, particularly for patient care management and inter-organizational cooperation. While analyzing the integration of teleconsultation in physicians' practices, we highlight that both pieces of software do not support those practices on equal terms according to their design. We argue that teleconsultation software design can limit the spread of these new healthcare practices and that the artifact ecology of physicians should be considered during the design process.

Knowledge Management Processes as a Challenge of Knowledge-Based Economy

The article concerns the idea of knowledge and its innovative potential in the knowledge-based economy. The processes related to the knowledge transfer and knowledge management are often considered as factors determining the success in innovativeness. Knowledge management is also an important issue in inter-organizational cooperation since it considerably helps in the development of new technological solutions. The article provides research results on knowledge management conducted among enterprises and scientific units involved in cooperation under R&D projects co-financed by the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations and the National Centre for Research and Development.

Global governance and inter-organizational relationships in the nuclear safety sector

In response to global challenges the interconnectedness between different organizations is seen as the sine qua non, and one of the most important aspects of the organizational environment is cooperation and conflicts between organizations. This paper aims at contributing to an emerging ‘inter-organizational turn’ in world politics by studying the relationship between the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the paper suggests that inter-organizational cooperation and conflict are based on flows of information, trust, resource dependencies, and how responsibilities and roles are divided between organizations. Moreover, the paper indicates that organization type and organization size are important to understand patterns of cooperation and conflicts between organizations operating at the global level, and the paper also suggests that organizational birthmarks are important to understand why tensions are triggered.

Modern approaches to the implementation of the concept of sustainable development of inter-organizational cooperation of agricultural organizations

The stability of an economic entity, as a rule, is interpreted by the authors as an opportunity to achieve an acceptable level of economic security risks through the tools. This stable position is achieved by keeping the values of the indicators within the limits set for a particular member of the partnership and cooperation as a whole for a certain period. Sustainability in the framework of this study should be understood as the state of stability of the company over a certain period. The period is determined based on the specifics of the indicator. The interest of science among domestic and foreign authors is due to the specifics of the management mechanism of providing systems and achieving a stable position of large associations of economic units. The article discusses the concepts of system stability, approaches to understanding the stability of interorganizational formation, factors affecting system stability, the foundations of the mechanism for achieving stability in

Procedural Justice and Demographic Diversity: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Police Recruitment

Online recruitment materials are often the first encounter for individuals considering a police career. Procedural justice (PJ) theory argues that how police officers treat the public is an important predictor for future citizen cooperation. Taking steps towards becoming a police officer is a unique form of organizational cooperation. This project examined job interest for a sample of 993 respondents in Amazon’s mTurk, experimentally manipulating whether the presented recruitment materials emphasized PJ policing or not (PJ content) in a quasi-experimental vignette design. The PJ content significantly increased two of the four job interest outcomes. PJ theory also argues fair and respectful treatment should impact all groups similarly, deemed the invariance thesis. The results largely showed groups being influenced in similar ways. This study’s findings largely support this extension of PJ theory, and are useful to practitioners interested in building their recruitment pool through economical changes in recruitment materials.

Improvement of the management reporting system in the inter-organizational relations of agricultural formations

The article, based on the theoretical analysis and study of management reporting practices, presents the place and role of the inter-organizational management reporting system in the system of inter-organizational management accounting in the framework of partner interaction. The composition of management reports of agricultural organizations in the framework of business partnerships is proposed, the advantages of using this composition of reports are identified, and the possible difficulties of implementing such a system of reporting forms are identified. On the example of agricultural enterprises, the structure and content of management reports for use in inter-organizational cooperation are disclosed.

Modern tools for deep cost analysis in the cost management system in the inter-organizational relations of agricultural formations

The article, based on the theoretical analysis and study of the forms of setting up management accounting of inter-organizational agricultural formations, presents the place and role of digital doubles as tools for implementing the system of management accounting of interorganizational interaction of agricultural partner companies. The advantages of using digital doubles in agricultural companies, which have a significant impact on the inter-organizational cooperation of agricultural companies, are revealed. The complexity of the implementation and use of modern management accounting methods in identifying deviations in business processes is revealed.

Condiciones de las redes interorganizativas para la innovación en áreas rurales

The objective is to investigate which are the drivers of the formation of inter-organizational cooperation networks that contribute to the achievement of innovation performance in rural areas. Regarding the methodological aspects, the research chose Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Content Analysis for research with the leaders of research, development and innovation networks of the most important agri-food technologies in Brazil and Spain. Our findings suggest that relevant reasons that influence the performance of the innovation are Legitimacy, Flexibility and Efficiency.