... education. Originality/value – Using a business model of knowledge generation, this paper introduces how current social media affordances and societal values can and are transforming conceptions of “the scholar,” “scholarship” and the university as knowledge-purveyor. Universities Change...

... on the awarding of degrees of graduates. At times, there has also been a “heavy hand” placed on both who might be hired and what they might “profess” through either research or teaching. That exists within universities, today. Innovation Change management Knowledge management Universities futures...

..., which can offer individualized learning, often in contrast with formal education. Such an approach, he argues, allows for active learning and outcomes that have enhanced value for the individual. Knowmad society Innovation Educational change Context work Value creation Change management...

... the fabric of the organization, making continual learning part of business as usual (Edmondson, 2008). Learning organizations Future Learning Innovation Change management A growing number of managers and executives are aware of the need for these qualities in their own employees...

... (2006a) , Tapscott and Williams (2006) , and Walters (2004) , the emerging borderless economy exhibits many new properties that distinguish it from its predecessors. This economy is: Future Work Performance Economy Apprenticeship Learning Change management World economy Emergent strategy...

... management Change management Higher education The convergence of globalization, the emergence of the knowledge society and accelerating change contribute to what might be best termed a new paradigm of knowledge production in higher education. The new paradigm reflects the emerging shifts in thought...

...”. Education E‐learning Experiential learning Change management Minnesota in the late 1960s supported a strong “futures” oriented community. State funds, federal grants and money from the corporate sector and foundations underwrote the concept of constructing a model, self‐sustaining, community...

... blog threads for purposes of attribution and tenure? Who cares? © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Academic staff Serials Research work Change management We, the authors, represent interdisciplinary perspectives in research, though have each grown increasingly disillusioned...

.... Design/methodology/approach The case of Galileo is presented as a case study in modern change management. Findings The story of Galileo as passed down to us through the centuries has become mythologized and distorted as an example of a clash between religion and science. The facts...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Educational innovation Change management Strategic planning Universities The atmosphere was raucous, even violent and dangerous. Drunken disputes over a point of logic might end at the flesh‐embedded point of a sword. Faculty went on strike...

... to revitalizing the ongoing dialog about higher education's future. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Higher education Innovation Change management Institutions of higher education currently face an extraordinary array of demographic, economic, political, and cultural pressures...

... Organizational change Change management Transformational leadership Transition management Management succession The situation had become untenable. This once proud corporation that established an entirely new industry was now dying slowly. Its guiding vision no longer caught attention. Clients had...

..., a central dynamic to give cohesion and drive to the organization. A further commendable feature of this paradigm was that it positioned the workers, not at the “lowest level,” but at the perimeter, the true cutting edge of the organization. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Change...

..., however, this “flexible hierarchy” may prove no match for the turmoil that is even now roiling modern economies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Change management Organizational change Interviews Although we live in a time of great progress, the much‐heralded wave...

... for educators, not simply in the interests of enhancing and making more relevant the educational experiences of students, but also of revisiting long held assumptions concerning best practice in teaching and learning. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Change management Communications technology Information...