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on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy |
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Issue of 2020‒04‒06
three papers chosen by Laura Ştefănescu Centrul European de Studii Manageriale în Administrarea Afacerilor |
| By: | Raab, Jörg (Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management); Kenis, Patrick (Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management); Kraaij – Dirkzwager, Marleen; Timen, Aura |
| Abstract: | The core question addressed is to what extent ex ante knowledge can be made available from a network governance perspective to deal with a crisis such as an infectious disease outbreak. Such outbreaks are often characterized by a lack of information and knowledge, changing and unforeseen conditions as well as a myriad of organizations becoming involved on the one hand but also organizations which do not become adequately involved. We introduce the organizational network governance approach as an exploratory approach to produce useful ex ante information for limiting the transmission of a virus and its impact. We illustrate the usefulness of our approach introducing two fictitious but realistic outbreak scenarios: the West Nile Virus (WNV), which is transmitted via mosquitos and the outbreak of a New Asian Coronavirus (NAC) which is characterized by human to human transmission. Both viruses can lead to serious illnesses or even death as well as large health care and economic costs. Our organizational network governance approach turns out to be effective in generating information to produce recommendations for strengthening the organizational context in order to limit the transmission of a virus and its impact. We also suggest how the organizational network governance approach could be further developed |
| Date: | 2020 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tiu:tiutis:20292448-3b29-44b9-8cd3-50ca25a71410&r=all |
| By: | Aymo Brunetti; Konstantin Büchel; Martina Jakob; Ben Jann; Christoph Kühnhanss; Daniel Steffen |
| Abstract: | Education is one of the key resources in the fight against poverty. While substantial progress has been made in terms of school enrollment, evidence suggests that educational quality is still alarmingly low in many developing countries. Various explanations have been suggested, but one very obvious factor in the educational production function has received surprisingly little attention: the content knowledge of teachers. For this study, we administered an exam-type assessment to a representative sample of 224 primary school teachers in Morazán, El Salvador. The average teacher scored 47% correct answers on 50 questions covering the official math curriculum for second to sixth graders. Overall, our results point to an even more worrying situation than suggested by previous findings based on indirect measures of content-related teacher skills in several African countries. |
| Keywords: | teacher content knowledge, quality of education, primary education, El Salvador |
| JEL: | I21 I25 J24 O15 |
| Date: | 2020–03–25 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bss:wpaper:34&r=all |
| By: | David Carassus (CREG - Centre de recherche et d'études en gestion - UPPA - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour); Yoann Queyroi (CREG - Centre de recherche et d'études en gestion - UPPA - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour); Pierre Marin (CREG - Centre de recherche et d'études en gestion - UPPA - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour); Christophe Maurel (GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management - Institut National de l'Horticulture et du Paysage - AGROCAMPUS OUEST - UA - Université d'Angers); Christophe Favoreu (TBS - Toulouse Business School) |
| Date: | 2018–07–09 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02427653&r=all |