Floor Basten

Independent scholar, cat addict, tattoo lover

Chocolade maken van de samenleving

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Afgelopen juli was ik op een conferentie voor promovendi in humanities en social sciences te Aberdeen. Ik had de organisatie namelijk geschreven dat ze met “Impact or impasse, postgraduate research beyond academia” volgens mij een interessant onderwerp te pakken hadden en dat ik graag de presentaties van de keynote speakers na afloop wilde ontvangen. Prompt … Lees meer

Microstructures: spaces for participatory innovation

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Microstructures are networks that aim to solve persistent social problems in rural or urban areas. These are transdisciplinary networks of inhabitants, entrepreneurs, professionals, and academics who bind their forces to realize an ambition they share in the area concerned. They require small investments in governance which we expect to result in social entrepreneurship and self … Lees meer

Metaphor in Action in an Academic Battlefield

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How to explain an academic community that theorises about knowledge intensive organisations whilst creating practical knowledge about living in this community that negates these theories? I constructed a learning history of an academic business school and found some answers. Confronting the collective narrative of the organisation about itself with analyses and recommendations written for others, … Lees meer

Narrating around

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The learning history is designed to describe the coming about of best practices, with their reproduction in mind. In this paper, I discuss the implications of this instrument and present a modified version. I use a so-called discursive learning history to zoom in on the interaction between a convergent, official, organisational narrative on the one … Lees meer