753 research outputs found
Managing as designing with a positive lens
No full textThe role and potential contribution of a positive lens to the design of systems and organizations is the focus of this essay. The positive lens refers to an emerging perspective in the social sciences that emphasizes a positive stance toward our capacity to construct better organizations and technologies through a positive discourse. Joining a positive lens onto organizing with the transformative power of design thinking opens new horizons and uncovers previously overlooked possibilities for creating organizational and social well-being. We discuss the core practices that drive design and argue that they hold the key for applying a positive design attitude
The road to Sustainable Value: The path-dependent construction of sustainable innovation as sociomaterial practices in the car industry
No full textSustainable innovation is not only about the design of radical "green" technologies, it is also about generating social and institutional support that complement and reinforce the adoption and diffusion of these technologies at large. Hence, treating the ecologically hazardous nature of the prevalent technologies alone is insufficient without complementary social change. Building on a longitudinal study of sustainable innovation in the car industry, we argue that the prevailing discourse that is centered on the creation of business value is unlikely to facilitate the widespread adoption of sustainable technologies. Furthermore, taking into consideration the sociomateriality of sustainable innovation, we rather suggest that a focus on creating social value is indispensable for triggering the desired change toward sustainable value. Following the analysis of sustainable innovation in the car industry, we generate two relevant insights for sustainable value. First, our results demonstrate the path-dependent nature of sustainable innovation, which is constrained and sustained by the materiality, social structures, and institutional frameworks that comprise the overall sociotechnical system in which innovation takes place. Second, our findings show that a successful diffusion of radical sustainable innovation requires both technological innovation and complementary social changes that together can disrupt the existing evolutionary path of technology and construct more sustainable alternatives. All in all, we argue that reframing the discourse around social value in lieu of monetary value can be leveraged by organizations for shaping alternative courses of action, creating innovative technologies, and developing novel practices that create sustainable value for all stakeholders in society
The generative bedrock of open design
No full textA shift in communications infrastructure is an important factor in how open design has taken shape and the possibilities it offers. It is a transition from the ‘internet of things’ to the things of the internet. Michel Avital analyses the main drivers behind open design, open innovation and open source. He describes the major features of open design and explores the preconditions for open design in relation to four aspects: object, process, practice and infrastructure, with a specific focus on infrastructure
Introduction to positive design and appreciative construction: From sustainable development to sustainable value
No full textsj-spv-2-hpq-10.1177_13591053221115619 – for Stigma related to breast cancer among women and men: The case of the Druze minority in Israel
No full textsj-spv-2-hpq-10.1177_13591053221115619 for Stigma related to breast cancer among women and men: The case of the Druze minority in Israel by Avital Gershfeld-Litvin, Samer Halabi and Keith M Bellizzi in Journal of Health Psychology</p
sj-sav-1-hpq-10.1177_13591053221115619 – for Stigma related to breast cancer among women and men: The case of the Druze minority in Israel
No full textsj-sav-1-hpq-10.1177_13591053221115619 for Stigma related to breast cancer among women and men: The case of the Druze minority in Israel by Avital Gershfeld-Litvin, Samer Halabi and Keith M Bellizzi in Journal of Health Psychology</p
On parallel pre-conditioners for pressure Poisson equation in LES of complex geometry flows
No full textChina and India Award of Royal Academy of Engineering, UK to Drs Eldad Avital and Krishna M. Singh. Grant Numbers: Grant No. SEMF1A4R, Grant No. EP/L000261/
Supplementary Material for the paper "Tempo Estimation from the EEG signal during Perception and Imagination of Music"
No full text<p>Supplementary Material for the paper: Avital Sternin; Sebastian Stober; Jessica A. Grahn & Adrian M. Owen. <em>"Tempo Estimation from the EEG Signal during Perception and Imagination of Music."</em> In: 1st International Workshop on Brain-Computer Music Interfacing / 11th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (BCMI/CMMR’15), 2015.</p
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