Essays about: "Communities of Boundary Practice"
Found 4 essays containing the words Communities of Boundary Practice.
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1. Green Prescribing: Communities of Boundary Practice in Transectoral Collaboration. An Actor-Oriented Approach to Environmental and Public Health Intervention.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : Green prescribing, the referral of patients to nature-based activities, has potential to bring co- benefits for psychological and physiological public health and for environmental health. Literature considers a major limitation to its effective implementation as a holistic, transectoral practice to be lack of a common language and tendency of actors involved to work within their respective paradigms, resulting in silo working and minimising realisation of potential co- benefits. READ MORE
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2. Whose Story? : Exploring communicative practices among international development organisations using learning approaches designed for complex situations
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för hälsa och lärandeAbstract : The context in which international development work takes place is often complex and requires learning approaches which pay attention to complexity. Change is unpredictable when development is viewed as a process including multiple actors with their changing relationships and boundaries. READ MORE
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3. The safety manager as a boundary spanner between communities of practice : The employment of a safety manager in a Swedish construction company
University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggandeAbstract : Safety is an important concern within the construction industry. Many different management strategies exist in the literature, but despite ambitious efforts to improve the safety and prevent accidents, the accident incidence is still unacceptably high. READ MORE
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4. Design Principles for Convergence of Practices: An Action Research Study
University essay from IT-universitetet i Göteborg/Tillämpad informationsteknologiAbstract : Communities of practice is a conception for describing social aspects of organizational units. Interactions across the boundaries of these are achieved by means of artifacts and practices. The convergence of information artifacts and the community it is intended for is a process of negotiation and adjustment of both. READ MORE
