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Chapter 1.Knowledge Brokers, Networks and the Policymaking Process (by Matthew S. Weber and Itzhak Yanovitzky) -- Chapter 2. Disseminating Evidence to Policymakers: Accounting for Audience Heterogeneity (by Jonathan Purtle) -- Chapter 3. "Being Important" or "Knowing the Important": who is the best to influence policy? (by Kathryn Oliver) -- Chapter 4. Integrating Connectionist and Structuralist Social Network Approaches to Understand Education Policy Networks: The Case of the Common Core State Standards and State-Provided Curricular Resources (by Emily M. Hodge, Susanna L. Benko and Serena J. Salloum) -- Chapter 5. Measuring Issue Preferences, Idea Brokerage, and Research-Use in Policy Networks: A Case Study of the Policy Innovators in Education Network (by Joseph J. Ferrare, Sarah Galey-Horn, Lorien Jansy and Laura Carter-Stone) -- Chapter 6. The Role of Brokers in Connecting Educational Leaders around Research Evidence (by Kara S. Finnigan, Alan J. Daly, Anita Caduff and Christina C. Leal) -- Chapter 7. An Ego-Network Approach to Understanding Educator and School Ties to Research: From Basic Statistics to Profiles of Capacity (by Elizabeth N. Farley-Ripple and Ji-Young Yun) -- Chapter 8. Mixing Network Analysis and Qualitative Approaches in Educational Practices (by Mariah Kornbluh) -- Chapter 9. A Multi-Level Framework for Understanding Knowledge Sharing in Transnational Immigrant Networks (by Rosalyn Negrón, Linda Sprague-Martínez, Eduardo Siqueira and Cristina Brinkerhoff) -- Chapter 10. Promoting healthy eating: A whole-of system approach leveraging social network brokers (by Kayla de la Haye, Sydney Miller and Thomas W. Valente) -- Chapter 11. Brokerage-centrality conjugates for multi-level organizational field networks: Toward a blockchain implementation to enhance coordination of healthcare delivery (by Kayo Fujimoto, Camden J. Hallmark, Rebecca L. Mauldin, Jacky Kuo, Connor Smith, Natascha Del Vecchio, Lisa M. Kuhns, John A. Schneider and Peng Wang) -- Chapter 12. Platformed Knowledge Brokerage in Education: Power and Possibilities ( by Jennifer A. Lawlor, J.W. Hammond, Carl Lagoze, Minh Huynh and Pamela Moss) -- Chapter 13. Network approaches to misinformation evaluation and correction ( by Katherine Ognyanova) -- Chapter 14. Closing the Theory-Research Gap in Knowledge Brokerage: Remaining Challenges and Emerging Opportunities ( byItzhak Yanovitzky and Matthew S. Weber).

Organizational scholars have studied the process of organizational transformation for decades, focusing on the impact of inertia and environmental disruptions as drivers of transformation. Building on this body of work, the present study demonstrates the importance of organizational agency in affecting long-term organizational change. The analysis focuses on 487 newspapers in the United States and looks at the adoption of hyperlinking as part of the process of transforming from print-based organizations to multimedia information providers during an 11-year period from 1997 to 2007. The results show that traditional newspapers that aggressively adopted hyperlinking practices had a decreased likelihood of failure in the long run. The findings provide insights into the important role of individual and organizational action in the transformation process and emphasize the utility of hyperlinks as a communicative tool for organizations seeking to adapt in a digital environment.

Appropriation is the process through which technology users go beyond mere adoption to make technology their own and to embed it within their social, economic, and political practices. The appropriation process is a negotiation about power and control over the configuration of technology, its uses, and the distribution of its benefits. The negotiation surrounding technology appropriation echoes earlier creative tensions in the New World regarding the appropriation of cultural objects and ideas from abroad. This article reviews existing theoretical approaches to the study of technology appropriation and draws inspiration from three Latin American cultural traditions, baroquization, creolization, and cannibalism. It proposes a new theoretical framework that informs an in-depth study of the social, economic, and political impacts of technology appropriation.

In recent years, scholars and practitioners alike have sought to better understand the emergent communicative processes involved in the implementation of strategic organizational initiatives. In response, this article builds on sensemaking and sensegiving theory to understand the interactions that developed between internal and external stakeholders in response to a post-9/11 change in the Maritime Transportation Security Act. A detailed, emergent account of a failed initiative was derived from public comments in the Federal Register, transcripts from public meetings, newspaper articles, and semistructured interviews with key internal informants. In-depth analysis of these data allowed us to examine a divergent sensemaking process and identify four critical triggers that led to a communication breakdown: (a) unidirectional and parsimonious communication, (b) multifaceted understandings of organizational identities, (c) misaligned cues, and (d) an emergence of interorganizational sensemaking. A first-order analysis presents data from an in-depth case analysis, and a second-order analysis uses the analysis to develop a divergent sensemaking conceptual model. From a strategic communication perspective, our findings demonstrate the importance of taking a broad perspective of the legitimate participants in a sensemaking process, as well as reconciling sensemaking trajectories to avoid contradictions between perspectives. We offer implications for theory, future research, and practice.

Enterprise social network sites (ESNSs) are increasingly being introduced into large multinational organizations. In this article, we consider their potential for supporting knowledge-sharing practices within the organization. First, we build on prior work on affordances by applying notions of collective affordances and affordances for organizing to the study of social media, and we theorize how ESNSs may provide organizational affordances for knowledge sharing in distributed multinational organizations in particular. Second, we articulate ways in which ESNS affordances may shape knowledge sharing through consideration of social capital dynamics, support for relationships and interactions, context collapse, and network interactions. Finally, and building on these ideas, we propose a research agenda and suggestions for future research on this topic.

This study examines the impact of legitimacy on the dynamics of interorganizational networks within the nongovernmental organizations' children's rights community. The 27-year period of analysis included a critical community event: the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Building on theories of organizational evolution, hypotheses proposed that (1) ratification of the UNCRC served to codify and more broadly communicate the legitimate norms of the community, and (2) dissemination of normative information made it easier (a) for less experienced organizations to form and maintain partnerships, and (b) for organizations to form partnerships without reference to shared third-party contacts or dominant organizations. Data analysis via a longitudinal network model supported the hypotheses. Further investigation via an event history analysis suggested that these effects were largely confined to links among organizations in the children's rights community and not to links made by these organizations to more general others.