How Ideas Move: Theories and Models of Translation in Organizations

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