The impact of information technology evolution on the forms of knowledge in public sector social work: examples from Canada and the UK by Vogl, T

“…These findings suggest that forms of knowledge may evolve with technological change.…”

Theoretical foundations for the study of social innovation in the public sector by Vogl, TM

“…Over the past two decades, there have been significant debates around the theoretical foundations for the study of social and material implications of technological change in organizational settings. Various scholars have looked at these foundations with a focus on either the social and the material as discrete entities, the social and the material as interactive, the sociomaterial as a concept representing the constitutive entanglement of the two, or the sociomaterial as imbricated but analytically distinct. …”

China's compliance with the Montreal Protocol by Zhao, J, Ortolano, L

“…The foams sector includes a large number of small enterprises with limited financial and technical capability and weak access to information and technology, and these factors obstructed technological change. In general, assistance from the multilateral fund established under the Montreal Protocol has motivated enterprises to shift to ozone-depleting substance reduction technologies, but complex and lengthy procedures for accessing the multilateral fund, difficulties in finding appropriate suppliers of non-CFC technologies and insufficient financial and technical capabilities of many enterprises have slowed down this shift. …”

Public service media and news in a digital media environment: a study of six countries by Sehl, A, Cornia, A, Nielsen, R

“…We use our empirical analysis of how a broad range of European PSM are dealing with the new digital developments to advance our under-standing of the relative importance of the organizational, economic, and political factors in shaping how PSM are responding to the technological changes within the media environment. Our research suggests that (internal) organizational factors and (external) political factors are most prominent in shaping how public service broadcasters adapt to and perform in a chang-ing media environment. …”