The digital transformation requires workplace innovation: An introduction

This special issue of the International Journal Technology Transfer and Commercialisation contains five contributions. Prior to developing this special issue, a symposium on WPI was held during EURAM18, the yearly international conference of the European Academy of Management, in Reykjavik, Iceland (June 2018), where a number of the articles...

Special issue: Workplace innovation in the era disruptive technologies

Towards a Multidisciplinary Research Framework for studying the Digital Transformation of Industry

The manufacturing industry is increasingly regarded as an essential ingredient of an ecosystem of production of goods and services. Key enabling technologies are considered to be the motors behind the ongoing digital transformation of industry. Given that there are still a number of open questions that need to be addressed in order to develop...

A new take-off for EUWIN!

The European Workplace Innovation Network (EUWIN) was created in 2013 at the request of the European Commission (DG GROW). Its goal was to develop and promote the idea of Workplace Innovation at the European level. The European Commission wanted to spread the idea that innovation in companies not only was the result of R&D investments but needed...

Organizing Care Integration. A Social Systems Based Approach: 17th International Conference on Integrated Care, Dublin, 08-10 May 2017

Conference Abstract. In 2013, a 4-year research project on integrated care in Flanders (Belgium) was launched: “Care Organisation: a Re-Thinking EXpedition in search for Sustainability” (CORTEXS). The multidisciplinary research team focuses on the challenge of how to organize care integration. Numerous studies convincingly demonstrate the need...

Gereedschap is belangrijk, maar wat doe je ermee? Technologie, functie-ontwerp en het niveau van toekomstige banen

De invloed van nieuwe technologie op de factor arbeid is een permanent actueel thema waarvoor al eerder in TvA aandacht is gevraagd (Batenburg et al., 2002). Vanaf het najaar van 2014 krijgt dit thema weer veel aandacht in de media, dit keer naar aanleiding van het working paper The future of employment; How susceptible are jobs to...

Reshaping workplaces: workplace innovation as designed by scientists and practitioners

Current thinking in several disciplines (organisational economics, sociology, psychology)about organisations is starting to converge. Organisations are no longer considered a blackbox, adapting to the economic environment as will-less objects. There is a role to play for managers to choose the right organisational model. There is still some...

Towards a comprehensive research design for studying integrated care

Given that integrated care includes many different aspects, this paper seeks to design a comprehensive research approach and explains how this approach is applied in the CORTEXS research project on integrated care in the Flemish Community in Belgium. A systemic view on integrated care is translated into a multi-level, multi-disciplinary, multi...

Analysing hydra-headed integrated care: a pilot case study in Flanders (Belgium)

Conference abstract of the World Congress on Integrated Care 2, Sydney, 23-25 November 2014.

CORTEXS: A multidisciplinary and multi-method research project on integrated care

Conference abstract of the World Congress on Integrated Care 2, Sydney, 23-25 November 2014.

A multidisciplinary and multi-method research framework for studying integrated care in Flanders (Belgium)

Conference abstract of the World Congress on Integrated Care, Singapore, November 7-9, 2013.