Knowledge Production in Networked Practice-based Innovation Processes – Interrogative Model as a Methodological Approach

Drawing upon my experience of researching the encounter between Indigenous and Western knowledge among the Maasai in Monduli, Tanzania, I reflect on theoretical and practical aspects of a glocalised research design as an alternative methodological approach to Indigenous research. I explore how the design is embodied in the Maasai’s concept of enkigúɛ́ná (meeting) both as an ontological and epistemological framework for engaging diverse worldviews and knowledge systems in meaningful ways. The experience from the fieldwork shows that not only does the glocalised design offer possibilities for decolonising research and knowledge production but also it provides a dialogical space for co-constructing knowledge between the researcher, research assistants, and participants. The glocalised design offers new insights into the importance of research at the encounter where two knowledge systems constantly in tension, meet, interrogate, and negotiate with each other through a productive dialogue to enhance mutual understanding and create new knowledge.

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CRITERIA VALUATION OF MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR INNOVATION AND INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENTERPRISE UNDER CONDITIONS OF UNCERTAINTY AND CONFLICT

International Journal of Innovative Technologies in Economy ◽

10.31435/rsglobal_ijite/30122020/7285 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Pavlo Demchenko

Keyword(s):

Methodological Approach ◽

A Priori ◽

Decision Criteria ◽

Business Decisions ◽

Industrial Enterprises ◽

Economic Decisions ◽

Modern Economic ◽

Further Development ◽

Innovation Processes

In today's complex conditions of enterprise operation, innovation processes in most of them are characterized by a set of complex complex organizational measures, which can be implemented only in the implementation of sequentially parallel information-saturated stages of making various management decisions. The article improves and further develops the criterion evaluation of economic decisions on innovation and investment development of the enterprise under conditions of uncertainty and conflict of production and financial and economic processes while taking into account the peculiarities of investment and innovation processes. Based on research papers, the article improves the classification of decision criteria based on the methods of potential theory and the principles of maximum uncertainty functions and inaccuracy functions, which are related to the values of the estimation functional, characteristics of Bayesian sets and Bayesian surfaces.It is proved that for the formation of criteria for certain aspects of ensuring the appropriate level of innovation and investment development of industrial enterprises in modern economic conditions it is advisable to use decision criteria based on methods of obtaining point estimates of the unknown vector of a priori probability distribution in a set. It is proposed to use the Khomenyuk criterion, as well as the Rosenbluth and Herfindahl-Hirschman indices, which are used in determining the indicators of evaluation of the results of economic activity of mining and processing enterprises of Ukraine. The calculations allowed to determine the company with the most stable level of innovation and investment development during the study period. Based on the research, it is concluded that the results of assessing the level of stability of sustainable innovation and investment development of mining and processing enterprises taking into account the risk obtained using the proposed methodological approach can be used for further development of methodology for criterion evaluation of business decisions and conflict in the course of production and financial and economic processes.

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Innovative development of human capital in the conditions of globalization

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202016613011 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 166 ◽

pp. 13011 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Oleh Kuzmin ◽

Myroslava Bublyk ◽

Alyona Shakhno ◽

Olha Korolenko ◽

Hanna Lashkun

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Investment Model ◽

Innovative Development ◽

Capital Development ◽

Innovation Processes ◽

Modern Technologies ◽

Practical Recommendations

The role of human capital in the innovative development of the Ukrainian economy, which is formed through investment in the human being, is investigated. It is determined that an indispensable condition for sustainable development of the country is the implementation of the strategy of increasing the quality of human capital, which is actively involved in innovation processes and serves as a key resource for improving the competitiveness of the national economy. Emphasis is placed introduction of the model “lifelong learning” using modern technologies. A methodological approach to determining the level of innovative development of human capital is proposed and the value of the integral index of innovative development of human capital is calculated. The innovative-investment model of human capital development in the conditions of globalization is developed and the directions are defined. To overcome the problems of inefficient development of human capital and to improve its quality, a set of measures will be proposed that will contribute to the innovative development of the economy. The scientific novelty is to deepen theoretical provisions and to develop scientific and practical recommendations for improving the quality of human capital and its innovative development in the context of accelerating globalization processes.

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Patents and gender: a contextual analysis

Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property ◽

10.4337/qmjip.2020.03.01 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 283-305

Author(s):

Jessica C Lai

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Production ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Patent Law ◽

Women In Science ◽

Governance System ◽

Science Technology ◽

Knowledge Governance ◽

And Gender ◽

And Mathematics ◽

Innovation Processes

Patent law is considered to be an objective law, dealing with the objective subject matter of the ‘technical arts’. Yet, empirical studies show that patenting rates around the world are gendered. This article analyses the roots of the gender patent gap, and how this correlates to the invention and innovation processes. It shows that the gendered nature of the patent-regulated knowledge governance system forces women into traditionally male spaces and fields in order to partake in the extant patent game. Yet, when they enter those spaces and fields, they often find themselves unwelcome and subject to institutional, structural or organizational biases, which impinge upon their ability to invent, patent and commercialize. This article re-frames the discourse around women inventors. It argues that we have to stop focusing on the ‘women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)’ narrative, because it is a distraction from the underlying problem that the Western knowledge governance system reflects the hegemonic powers at play. Instead, we need to re-think the knowledge governance system and the ecosystem it creates, in order to ensure egalitarian knowledge production and protection.

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Introduction: The Promises and Challenges of Crime Ethnographies

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904500.013.30 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. xii-17

Author(s):

Kevin D. Haggerty ◽

Sandra M. Bucerius ◽

Luca Berardi

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Diverse Group ◽

Deviant Behaviors ◽

Policy Initiatives ◽

Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽

Positivist Science ◽

The Many ◽

Local Variability

This chapter outlines some of the scholarly and political appeals of crime ethnographies and identifies a series of factors that will pose challenges to this methodological approach over the longer term. It briefly charts the early evolution of crime ethnographies, noting how they have expanded to encompass the study of a larger range of criminal or deviant behaviors, while also focusing on the operation of criminal justice institutions. A more diverse group of scholars than was historically the case now conduct such research, individuals who typically embrace a more reflexive orientation to knowledge production than is characteristic of positivist science. Crime ethnographies provide invaluable grounded insights into the lives of participants and processes that are often otherwise hidden or hard to reach. Politically, ethnographies tend to humanize individuals and groups that are easily vilified, while reminding politicians and officials of the need to be conscious of local variability when adopting policy initiatives that originated in different contexts. Notwithstanding the many benefits of this approach, a series of developments now present challenges to crime ethnographies as they are currently practiced, including the changing technological profile of crime, as well as university-based developments, such as changes to the systems for overseeing and rewarding academic work and research ethics protocols that do not accord with the philosophical assumptions of ethnographers or the practical realties of ethnographic fieldwork.

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Troubling transnational feminism(s): Theorising activist praxis

Feminist Theory ◽

10.1177/1464700117700536 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 205-227 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Janet M. Conway

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Production ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Transnational Feminism ◽

The Other ◽

World Social Forum ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Cross Border ◽

The Us ◽

The World ◽

The One

This article identifies a misfit between transnational feminist networks observed at the World Social Forum and the extant scholarship on transnational feminism. The conceptual divide is posited as one between transnational feminism understood, on the one hand, as a normative discourse involving a particular analytic and methodological approach in feminist knowledge production and, on the other, as an empirical referent to feminist cross-border organising. The author proposes that the US-based and Anglophone character of the scholarship, its post-structuralist and post-colonial genealogies and the transnational paradigm’s displacement of area studies can be seen as contributing to the misfit. The article concludes by arguing for theoretical reconsideration of activist practice, place and the ‘posts’ – post-structuralism and post-colonialism – in the study of contemporary transnational feminist activisms. This marks an effort to get beyond the binary framework of ‘transnational feminism’ versus ‘global sisterhood’ in analysing activist practices within an increasingly diverse and complex transnational feminist field.

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Management of Innovation Processes In the Health Economy System of Ukraine

WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ◽

10.37394/232015.2021.17.69 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 ◽

pp. 721-731

Author(s):

Pavlo V. Zakharchenko ◽

Yana V. Glazova ◽

Svitlana Α. Zhvanenko ◽

Ganna P. Kostenko ◽

Stanislav F. Kucher ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Development Strategy ◽

Innovation Policy ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Transformational Change ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Health Economy ◽

Innovation Development ◽

Innovative Strategies ◽

Effective Development ◽

Innovation Processes

In today's health economics, resort and recreation is one of the most lucrative areas of the economy. Ukraine has a strong resort and recreational potential, the effective development of which can bring real economic benefits. This requires the formation of a systemic strategy for the development of such systems, an integral part of which are innovations. The purpose of the article is to analyze and develop methods for managing innovations in the health economy of Ukraine with its further development. The author's concept, which is based on the methods of economic dynamics, multicriteria optimization and optimal management, is used as a methodological approach. That is the first time the proposed concept has been used to analyze, forecast and formulate innovation policy and the development of innovation processes in the health economy. It allows to build predictive scenarios of innovation development with a high degree of accuracy compared to existing approaches, and is more adequate and universal in a pandemic. As a result of the research the concept of innovation development strategy as a certain period of cyclical dynamics was substantiated, and scenarios of influence, development and implementation of innovations were obtained. The proposed approach provides an opportunity to consider the development of the health economy and, in particular, resort and recreational systems as a process of transformational change of innovation strategies. On this basis, a model is built that allows for a scenario description of the transformation of innovative strategies of resort and recreational systems. The proposed model allows for choosing an innovation policy, i.e. at what point in time to begin the implementation of a new resort and recreational technology, which includes decisions on the feasibility of its implementation in general. The simulation results can be used to form a new modern strategy for the development of the health economy in Ukraine.

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Researching relationality: Reflections on the use of concept cards during in-depth interviews

Methodological Innovations ◽

10.1177/20597991211035525 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 205979912110355

Author(s):

Kristina Saunders

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Reproductive Decisions ◽

Reproductive Decision ◽

Political World ◽

Reproductive Decision Making ◽

The Social ◽

The Individual ◽

Depth Interviews

This article reflects on the use of concept cards during in-depth interviews when researching reproductive decision-making in the context of neoliberalism and postfeminism. As existing literature has shown, card methods are valuable in centring participants’ individual experiences through increased control and inclusion during data collection, and attention has been drawn to their use as an ethically attentive method that can elicit richer, more complex narratives than interviews alone. While these strengths initially led me to consider the cards as an appropriate ‘fit’ with my feminist methodological approach, on reflection, the cards also illuminated the relationality of experiences that my research was concerned with. I view this as occurring in two ways. First, participants’ use of the cards helped to uncover the intertwining of their reproductive decisions with the social and political world, therefore complicating the neoliberal prioritization of the individual. Second, the cards brought the relation between myself and the participants, and between the participants, to the forefront. The reflections in this article therefore offer new insights into what concept cards can achieve, as not only validating individual accounts, but as enhancing the relationality of knowledge production.

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Of Frames and Cultures - A Cross-Cultural Comparison of TV Newscasts

Zeitschrift für Medienpsychologie ◽

10.1026/1617-6383.18.4.160 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 18 (4) ◽

pp. 160-173 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Maria Senokozlieva ◽

Oliver Fischer ◽

Gary Bente ◽

Nicole Krämer

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Arab World ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Cultural Comparison ◽

Explorative Study ◽

Cross Cultural Comparison ◽

Tv News ◽

The Usa ◽

The Relationship

Abstract. TV news are essentially cultural phenomena. Previous research suggests that the often-overlooked formal and implicit characteristics of newscasts may be systematically related to culture-specific characteristics. Investigating these characteristics by means of a frame-by-frame content analysis is identified as a particularly promising methodological approach. To examine the relationship between culture and selected formal characteristics of newscasts, we present an explorative study that compares material from the USA, the Arab world, and Germany. Results indicate that there are many significant differences, some of which are in line with expectations derived from cultural specifics. Specifically, we argue that the number of persons presented as well as the context in which they are presented can be interpreted as indicators of Individualism/Collectivism. The conclusions underline the validity of the chosen methodological approach, but also demonstrate the need for more comprehensive and theory-driven category schemes.

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