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AbstractWhat happens when corporate knowledge management monoculture meets the diverse international development sector? This paper finds that development agencies have too readily adopted approaches from the Northern corporate sector that are inappropriate to development needs. These approaches treat knowledge as a rootless commodity, and information and communications technology as a key knowledge tool. Alternative approaches are required, that focus on the knower and on the context for creating and sharing knowledge. ICT tools need to support this approach, helping people develop appropriate or alternative scenarios and improving the accessibility of information and knowledge for people with different cultural, social, or educational backgrounds. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Script analysis is often used in research that focuses on gender and technology design. It is applied as a method to describe problematic inscriptions of gender in technology and as a tool for advancing more acceptable inscriptions of gender in technology. These analyses are based on the assumption that we can design technologies that do justice to gender. One critique on script analysis is that it does not engage with the emergent effects of design. The authors explore this critique with the help of two vignettes taken from their design research. In this article they ask: How to design for gender if gender and design are emergent? The authors present two design strategies, degendering design and undesigning design and propose a new approach to doing justice to gender in design. This perspective foregrounds ethics in the design process, in particular the accountability of technology designers.

This article investigates the proliferation of informal mobile phone markets and contributes to the understanding of the changing urban economic geographies in Africa. It enriches comparative research by modestly bringing new theoretical ideas to bear, and explores how the spatial geography of mobile phone markets mediates urban governance. We argue that regardless of where in Accra mobile phone markets emerge, the same kind of processes and activities develop, and this recognition contrasts other works, which either focus on the city as a whole or on specific sites. Using key informant interviews, augmented with cognitive mapping, we observe the geography of mobile phone repairs and sales, intersecting socio-economic factors, and a collaborative culture among participants. Ultimately, our article touches upon the issues of power and agency by elucidating the relational dynamics between the informal operators and city authorities.

This volume brings together contributions from women business scholars from a range of disciplines and countries. The starting point was a collaborative research meeting organised by Daughters of Themis: International Network of Female Business Scholars in June 2017. The volume highlights the difficulties and the possibilities that lie in working together across disciplines with the aim of achieving corporate sustainability. The volume is written from the perspective of women business scholars, thereby offering outside viewpoints in fields that still are very much dominated by men, and fresh insights and innovate ideas. In three main parts, the authors address the need for interdisciplinarity in research to identify ways to ensure the contribution of business to sustainability, showcasing a number of theoretical and applied approaches for researching sustainable business. The volume 's introductory chapter situates the volume in discourses of sustainability and corporate sustainability. It presents the Daughters of Themis Network and provides a short description of the successive eleven chapters. In Part I, Reflections, contributors discuss the significance of interdisciplinary research, how to work across disciplines, as well as the challenges of doing so. In Part II, Theory, contributors discuss theoretical and methodological aspects of interdisciplinary research. Part III presents the Practice of interdisciplinary research. In the introductory chapter, the editors reflect on the insights that can be drawn out of the contributions, and discuss the potential for future developments of interdisciplinary research for sustainability, as well as how interdisciplinary research can be communicated. The book is intended for business scholars, and will particularly appeal to those working in law, accountancy and finance, management, and organization studies

This article explores the compatibility of Ghana's e-waste policy (Act 917) in the country's socioeconomic context. Our article starts with two main questions based on our empirical engagements with the act which, contextually, mimics the extended producer responsibility. First, we question the pessimistic imaginaries about the e-waste industry that seeks its outright trade ban or promotes a single version of recycling. Second, we query if the underlying assumptions and basic mechanisms of extended producer responsibility can create the enabling environment to actualize sound e-waste management. Based on prevailing context, the imaginaries appear socially peripheral, isolated, and powerless, and we call for a broader, unbiased, in-depth, critical systems thinking for understanding the complexities and multidimensional nature of the waste electrical and electronic equipment industry. We suggest that it is by fostering the positive synergies across sectors and among policies that environmentally sound e-waste policy outcomes can be achievable.

Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Contents -- On Persuading an OvaHerero Community to Join the Wikipedia Community -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Indigenous Knowledge and Wikipedia -- 2.1 Knowledge Systems -- 2.2 Digitizing the Knowledge Sharing Processes -- 2.3 Challenges of Indigenous Knowledge in Wikipedia -- 3 Conceptual Framing -- 3.1 Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems -- 3.2 Contributors' Motivation to Collective Content Creation -- 3.3 Persuasive Techniques -- 4 Research Approach -- 4.1 Community Participants -- 4.2 Tripartite Methodology Applied -- 4.3 Conceptual Investigation -- 4.4 Empirical Investigation -- 4.5 Technical Investigation -- 4.6 Otjiherero Incubator -- 4.7 Communication Channel -- 4.8 Persuasive Intervention -- 5 Results: Value Comparison -- 5.1 Identity and Pride -- 5.2 Property and Ownership -- 5.3 Universal Usability -- 5.4 Consensus -- 5.5 Community Interactions -- 6 Results: Persuasion -- 6.1 Collaborative Article Creation -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Cultures of Science and Technology in the Trading Zone: Biodiversity and Open Source Development -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Relevant Literature -- 3 Coding for Biodiversity: Co-development to Build a Global Commons -- 4 The Trading Zone in Action -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Design as Regulation -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Sustainability -- 1.2 Lifecycle Thinking -- 1.3 Regulation -- 2 Design as Regulation -- 2.1 Regulatory Ecology -- 2.2 A Relational Understanding of Design as Regulation -- 3 Social and Environmental Risk in the Mobile Phone Lifecycle -- 3.1 Fairphone -- 3.2 Fair Design -- 4 Design as Regulator of Sustainability -- 4.1 The Rebound Effect -- 4.2 Regulatory Patching -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgement -- References.