Management of Science-Intensive Organizations: Catalyzing Urban Resilience

ISBN-13: 9783030640446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 226 str.

Ellie Okada

Spis treści

Part I Theoretical framework for science-intensive organizations

1. Research questions and frameworks

1.1 Issues present

1.2 Urban resilience and science-intensive organizations

- Previous literature on urban resilience

- Environmental exposure and inequity

- Anticipation and citizen scientists’ movement

- Anchor firms and knowledge-intensive organizations

- The missing link with science-intensive organizations

1.3 Categorization of science-intensive firms

- Characterizing technology development in new sciences

1.4 Organization forms of broadening of beneficiaries

2. Urban resilience, environmental exposure, and new sciences

2.1 Urban resilience and environmental exposure

2.2 Facilitators for urban resilience

2.3 Constraints for urban resilience

2.4 Beneficiaries of science

3. Emerging technologies and organizations for urban resilience

3.1 Emergence of new technologies

3.2 Academic knowledge-intensive organizations

3.3 Anchor institutions

3.4 Set conditions

Part II Entrepreneurship in urban resilience

4. Addressing environmental inequity by new sciences

4.1 Withdrawal of anchor institutions

4.2 Environmental inequity

4.3 Attracting foreign anchors

4.4 Investment towards variation

5. Emergence and dynamism of new material sciences

5.1 Schumpeterian Mark II category

5.2 Variation and capability renewal

5.3 Subsequent competition in the urban context

5.4 New science-intensive category

6. Artificial intelligence to broaden beneficiaries

6.1 New and established science categories

6.2 New vehicle of Tier-II translation

6.3 How algorithms affect organizations

6.4 More inclusive organizations

Part III Revolution of beneficiaries

7 Scale-up of social enterprises

7.1 Significance of scale-up

7.2 Replication to other settings

7.3 Governance to support scale up

7.4 New categorization

8 Strategy and governance

8.1 Issues present

8.2 Voice of silence

8.3 Governance for broadening beneficiaries

8.4 Vision of heterogeneous knowledge variation

O autorze

Ellie Okada long served as a professor of management who continues to specialize in management theory.   Former visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Columbia Business School, she worked for a research university in Japan, Yokohama National University, as a tenured full professor for over 24 years. She is Senior Academic Fellow, President, and Founder of the Boston Cancer Policy Institute, a research institute of management in new social science.

Blurb

“Okada’s book is a much welcome contribution to studies on the management of knowledge-intensive organizations. A unique focus on urban resilience allows her to recognize the key emerging trends in collaborative society and citizen science movements, and describe the key new technologies and strategies needed to address them”.

---- Dariusz Jemielniak, Head, MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies) Department, Kozminski University, Poland, Faculty Associate, Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, USA, and co-author of Collaborative Society (2020).

This book examines what mechanisms enable science-intensive organizations to broaden beneficiaries of science in urban settings. Focusing on organizations that constitute urban resilience systems and networks, it maps the contributions of academic institutions, established multinationals, and entrepreneur firms in environmental, material, and related life sciences. It then develops a model of strategy and governance for organizations to invest in and implement new environmental material science projects. This book provides researchers with a framework based on management theories of R&D and resource allocation for resolving urban issues.

Ellie Okada long served as a professor of management who continues to specialize in management theory. Former visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Columbia Business School, she worked for a research university in Japan, Yokohama National University, as a tenured full professor for over 24 years. She is Senior Academic Fellow, President, and Founder of the Boston Cancer Policy Institute, a research institute of management in new social science.