Management of Knowledge-Intensive Organizations

Explores a set of propositions on innovation pathways and governance of academic and scientific KIOs Explores new governance mechanisms for academics and science

Discusses elements that should be newly integrated into management theories of KIOs to bridge academic knowledge production to insights from humanities

Observes how regulatory professionals and bioethics construct nations' research policies

Explores social science and management frameworks to transform scientific discovery into the global common good

Autorentext

Ellie Okada is an academic, former visiting scholar at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Columbia Business School. She worked for a research university in Japan, Yokohama National University, as a tenured full professor for over 24 years. She is Senior Fellow, President, and Founder of the Boston Cancer Policy Institute, a research institute of management in new social sciences.

Klappentext

This book focuses on enhancing management theories of Knowledge-Intensive Organizations (KIOs), analyzing academic and research institutions and multilateral agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO). The first part of the book discusses the trusteeship norms of academic KIOs and institutional barriers that generate bias in selecting the research agenda. The author then discusses how moral stakeholders affect a legitimate research scope, and research policies and academic KIOs address the issues. Finally, the book addresses how to control private incentives that stem from ownership components as well as ways to build alliance and governance mechanisms for this purpose. This work provides researchers with a discussion of the broader impacts of addressing global common goods from responsible KIO perspectives.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Translational Science and Boundary Conceptualization.- 3. Trusteeship Governance and Challenges to Scientific Knowledge-Intensive-Organizations.- 4. Institutional Barriers and Governance.- 5. Research Policy and Knowledge-Intensive-Organization.- 6. New Governance Models for Discoveries of Vaccine Science.- 7. Science and Insights from the Humanistic Disciplines.- 8. Conclusion.