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Nicolini, Davide, Korica, Maja and Bharatan, Ila (2023) How insights from the field of information behavior can enrich understanding of knowledge mobilization. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 37 (2). doi:10.1108/JHOM-03-2022-0092 ISSN 1477-7266.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-03-2022-0092
Abstract
Design/methodology/approach
We conducted a narrative review using an exploratory, non-keyword ‘double-sided systematic snowball’ method. This is especially useful in our situation when the two traditions targeted are broad and relies on distinct vocabulary.
Purpose
We review the literature on information behavior, an autonomous body of work developed mainly in library studies, and compare it with work on knowledge mobilization. We aim to explore how information behavior can contribute to understanding knowledge mobilization in healthcare management.
Findings
We find that the two bodies of work have followed similar trajectories and arrived at similar conclusions, with a linear view supplemented first by a social approach and then by a sensitivity to practice. Lessons from the field of information behavior can be used to avoid duplication of effort, repeating the same errors, and reinventing the wheel among knowledge translation scholars. This includes, for example, focusing on sources of information or ignoring the mundane activities in which managers and policymakers are involved.
Originality
The study is the first known attempt to build bridges between the field of information behavior and the study of knowledge mobilization. The study, moreover, foregrounds the need to address knowledge mobilization in context-sensitive and social rather than technical terms, focusing on the mundane work performed by various human and non-human agents.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor R Medicine > R Medicine (General) Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Information retrieval, Human information processing, Information studies, Evidence-based medicine, Knowledge management, Health services administration | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Health Organization and Management | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1477-7266 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 18 April 2023 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 37 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1108/JHOM-03-2022-0092 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Copyright © 2023, Emerald Publishing Limited. This AAM is provided for your own personal use only. It may not be used for resale, reprinting, systematic distribution, emailing, or for any other commercial purpose without the permission of the publisher. | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 January 2023 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 January 2023 | ||||||||
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