How Ideas Move: Theories and Models of Translation in Organizations

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables Preface PART 1 Introduction 1 Introduction PART 2 Moving ideas – theories and models 2 Introduction to Part 2 3 Diffusion of innovations 4 Actor-network theory 5 The travel of ideas 6 Symbolic interactionist models 7 The theory of action nets 8 The linguistic model of translation 9 An instrumental theory of translation 10 Translating strategy 11 Policy translation 12 Knowledge translation in healthcare 13 Translation through design 14 The middle manager as translator 15 The consultant as translator 16 The knowledge translation value chain 17 Translation studies – focus points, research themes, research questions and gabs 18 Part 2: Conclusion PART 3 Translation in the meeting between idea and practice 19 Why develop the idea-practice translation model? 20 How are ideas materialized? 21 Drawing it all together: the idea-practice-translation model 22 Effects-driven socio-technical systems design as a method of translation PART 4 Consequences for researchers and practitioners 23 Scientific, humanistic, actualist and design approaches to the study of movement of ideas 24 Practical consequences of a translation perspective on the movement of tokens Appendix 1 Moving translation studies forward through cross-fertilization Appendix 2 Moving translation studies forward through critical realism Appendix 3 Making citation networks and lists using Web of Science and CitNetExplorer Index