Learning to mobilise knowledge collaboratively: (per)forming community, translating knowledge, and reconciling identities.

Abstract

This thesis seeks to understand how knowledge and expertise mobilise—across disciplinary and organisational boundaries—in collaborative networks. It explores the particular challenge of mobilising management methodologies in the healthcare sector. Such management knowledge is not ‘native’ to clinicians. However, clinicians need to engage with these kinds of knowledge in order for healthcare systems to achieve the widely promoted triple aim of healthcare improvement - improving individual care, improving the health of populations and reducing per capita costs. This thesis offers a processual model to help policymakers, managers, and participants of collaborative networks learn to mobilise knowledge more effectively.