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@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@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@man.ac.uk