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Subject: Innovation Management in the Knowledge Age: Strategic Transformation in Healthcare Organisations
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:27:56 -0000
From: Angel Salazar <a.salazar(a)mmu.ac.uk>
To: ISWORLD(a)LISTSERV.HEANET.IE
CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Innovation Management in the Knowledge Age:
Strategic Transformation in Healthcare Organisations:
The research aim of the book is to provide a unified coverage of the many
aspects of innovation management now achievable through adopting internet
technologies and knowledge management strategies. The book will offer a
coherent collection of identified and themed contributions, which will
support the applied nature of the subject. Submissions to the book are
invited from, but not limited to, the following topics of content:
1. Strategic direction and leadership. The Editors welcome papers that
combine quantitative and qualitative approaches for predicting industry and
technological trends, and develop practical scenarios and contribute to
generating an informed vision on the challenges and strategic issues to
adopting internet technologies to manage knowledge and expertise in
healthcare, as well as pharmaceutical and biotechnology, organisations.
2. New ways of organising to leverage knowledge creation and dissemination.
The Editors favour papers that formulate new concepts and review new
organisational forms, including virtual organisations and electronic
networks (i.e., virtual care providers, virtual clinical trials, virtual R&D
teams). A key research issue proposed here is to identify issues allowing
the management of the organisational boundaries for retaining proprietary
knowledge essential for long term growth and survival, whilst allowing the
sharing and co-generating of knowledge with partner organisations necessary
to develop and deliver new healthcare products and services.
3. New business and organisational processes for innovation and delivery.
The Editors welcome papers that highlight the significance of network
relationships and the role of the internet within the innovation process in
healthcare delivery, and drug discovery and development. Papers that review
the relevance of supply chain management processes and enterprise resource
planning systems, and customer relationship management processes and
electronic commerce, and identify novel analogies in healthcare,
pharmaceutical and biotechnology organisations are particularly welcomed.
4. Technologies to transform information into knowledge. The Editors favour
papers illustrating and conceptualising the application of new information
technology to codify, store, share and manage different types of knowledge.
Papers reporting the application of recent developments in health
informatics and bioinformatics, such as corporate biomedical and genetic
on-line databases and tools, internet infrastructures to support healthcare
planning and delivery, and web-based clinical trials, are particularly
welcomed.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before October 15,
2002, a full manuscript (5000 words max.). All submitted chapters will be
peer reviewed by the Editors. Electronic submission (Word 97) should be
sent to the corresponding editor. The book is scheduled to be published by
IOS PRESS in Spring 2003.
EDITORS:
Dr Angel Salazar (corresponding editor)
The Knowledge Management Research Group
Business Information Technology Department
The Business School
The Manchester Met University
Aytoun Street
Manchester M1 3GH
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 161 247 3805
Fax: +44 161 247 6317
Email: A.Salazar(a)mmu.ac.uk
Dr Ray Hackney
The Knowledge Management Research Group
Business Information Technology Department
The Business School
The Manchester Met University
Aytoun Street
Manchester M1 3GH
United Kingdom
Email: R.Hackney(a)mmu.ac.uk
Prof. Jeremy Howells
Policy Research in Engineering, Science & Technology Department; and
Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition
The Victoria University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
United Kingdom
Email: Jeremy.Howells(a)man.ac.uk
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