How Ideas Move

John Damm Scheuer, Master of Science in International Business, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark.

• Part one: Introduction 1.Introduction Part two: Moving ideas – theories and models 2. Introduction to part two 3. Diffusion of Innovations 4. Actor-network-theory 5. The Travel of Ideas 6. Symbolic interactionist models 6.1 Translating to manage knowledge across boundaries 6.2 Cooperating in the absence of consensus 6.3 Knowledge translation between center and periphery 7.0 The theory of action nets 8.0 The linguistic model of translation 9.0 An instrumental theory of translation 10. Translating strategy 11. Policy translation 12. Knowledge translation in health care 13. Translation through design 14. The middle manager as translator 15. The consultant as translator 16. The knowledge translation value-chain 17. Translation studies – focus points, research themes, research questions and gabs. 18. Part two: Conclusion Part three: Translation in the meeting between idea and practice 19. Why develop the idea-practice translation model? 20. How are ideas materialized – Assumptions of the idea-practice translation model 21. Drawing it all together: The idea-practice translation model 22. Effects-driven socio-technical systems design as a method of translation Part four: Consequences for researchers and practitioners 23. Scientific, humanistic, actualist and design approaches to the study of movement of ideas 24. Practical consequences of a translation perspective on the movement of tokens Appendix 1. Moving translation studies forward through cross-fertilization Appendix 2. Moving translation studies forward through critical realism Appendix 3 Making citation-networks and lists using Web of Science and CitNetExplorer