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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@mmu.ac.uk To: ISWORLD@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@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

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