Colin Eden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1655196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Eden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Eden |
| SIGNATURE | EDEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6449-2046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Modelling Stakeholder Dynamics for Supporting Group Decision and Negotiation: Theory to Practice
Group Decision and Negotiation methods can help identify optimal, or efficient, solutions to complex problems and so aid decision-makers. However, recommendations depend for their success, in part, on their political feasibility within, usually, complex organisational settings. A part of the complexity of effective implementation derives from understanding the responses of stakeholders to the proposed decisions. The responses of stakeholders can …
Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation
Towards a resilience management guideline — Cities as a starting point for societal resilience
Thinking together: What makes Communities of Practice work
In this article, we develop the founding elements of the concept of Communities of Practice by elaborating on the learning processes happening at the heart of such communities. In particular, we provide a consistent perspective on the notions of knowledge, knowing and knowledge sharing that is compatible with the essence of this concept – that learning entails an investment of identity and a social formation of a person. We do so by drawing richl…
Discovering Collaborative Advantage: The Contributions of Goal Categories and Visual Strategy Mapping
Collaboration can make sense when there is some sort of “collaborative advantage” to be gained, meaning organizations can achieve something together that they cannot easily achieve by themselves. However, the literature is essentially silent on how to identify collaborative advantage. This article addresses this shortcoming in the theory of collaborative advantage for public purposes by proposing a set of goal categories that may be used to help …
Putting the Resource‐Based View of Strategy and Distinctive Competencies to Work in Public Organizations
A key to the success of public organizations is their ability to identify and build capacity, particularly their distinctive competencies, in order to produce the greatest value for key stakeholders. This article grounds this proposition in the resource‐based view of organizations and presents a method for identifying and making use of distinctive competencies in the form of a “livelihood scheme”—a business model appropriate for the public sector…
Researching Organizations using Action Research
A decade on after it first published to international acclaim, the seminal Handbook of Organization Studies has been updated to capture exciting new developments in the field. Providing a retrospective and prospective overview of organization studies, this Handbook continues to challenge and inspire readers with its synthesis of knowledge and literature. As ever, contributions have been selected to reflect the diversity of the field. New chapters…
Contributions of Planning Under Pressure
Planning under Pressure offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Strategic Choice Approach, which has gradually been attracting worldwide recognition as a fresh, versatile and practical approach to collaborative decision-making under uncertainty
The Challenge of Collaborative Governance
Partnerships increasingly play a major role in determining and implementing major policy drives in localities. Under-standing how they may provide value is therefore essential to understanding modern governance principles. This article describes action research aiming to develop a conceptualization of fac-tors inherent in collaborative forms and, hence, about their practicality as governance tools. Different interpreta-tions of what collaborative…
The Stakeholder/Collaborator Strategy Workshop
Action Research for Management Research
Action research has become increasingly prominent among management researchers as an espoused paradigm used to justify the validity of a range of research outputs. In this paper we introduce and discuss 12 contentions which, we argue, justify an action research project as quality research. The contentions are presented through a discussion of a number of important issues: generality and theory generation, the type of theory development appropriat…
Creating Collaborative Advantage
The stakeholder/collaborator strategy workshop About four years ago a colleague (Fran Ackennann) and I were invited to help the Northern Ireland Prison Service develop a new strategy. The prison service is a part of the Northern Ireland Office and was seen as a critical part of any attempts to develop a strategy for Northern Ireland. The prison service was unlike any other in the world – it housed mostly political prisoners who were often members…
Images into models
Subjectivity and Organisational Politics in Policy Analysis
Traditionally the content of policy models has been dominated by the objectivated, ‘factual’ and particularly rational-analytic aspects of a policy issue. Using examples derived from a current project within a UK local government authority, this paper describes a significantly different approach to policy-modelling. Adopting a deliberate client orientation we have sought to construct for the policy maker client models which are representations of…
Computer assisted policy analysis: Contributions from Germany
Operational Research and Organization Development
A large research program concerned with the contribution of operational research (OR) to the design of organizations led indirectly to an OR project concerned with constructing a man-computer interactive simulation model for a department in local government. The simulation model was to map the decision-making activities of the department and their influence on critical features of the environment which were of interest. The most difficult part of…
On systems analysis
Modelling the influence of decision makers on the future
Creating Collaborative Advantage
The stakeholder/collaborator strategy workshop About four years ago a colleague (Fran Ackennann) and I were invited to help the Northern Ireland Prison Service develop a new strategy. The prison service is a part of the Northern Ireland Office and was seen as a critical part of any attempts to develop a strategy for Northern Ireland. The prison service was unlike any other in the world – it housed mostly political prisoners who were often members…
Thinking together: What makes Communities of Practice work
In this article, we develop the founding elements of the concept of Communities of Practice by elaborating on the learning processes happening at the heart of such communities. In particular, we provide a consistent perspective on the notions of knowledge, knowing and knowledge sharing that is compatible with the essence of this concept – that learning entails an investment of identity and a social formation of a person. We do so by drawing richl…
On systems analysis
Operational Research and Organization Development
A large research program concerned with the contribution of operational research (OR) to the design of organizations led indirectly to an OR project concerned with constructing a man-computer interactive simulation model for a department in local government. The simulation model was to map the decision-making activities of the department and their influence on critical features of the environment which were of interest. The most difficult part of…
Images into models
Modelling the influence of decision makers on the future
Subjectivity and Organisational Politics in Policy Analysis
Traditionally the content of policy models has been dominated by the objectivated, ‘factual’ and particularly rational-analytic aspects of a policy issue. Using examples derived from a current project within a UK local government authority, this paper describes a significantly different approach to policy-modelling. Adopting a deliberate client orientation we have sought to construct for the policy maker client models which are representations of…
Modelling the influence of decision makers on the future
Computer assisted policy analysis: Contributions from Germany
Operational Research and Organization Development
A large research program concerned with the contribution of operational research (OR) to the design of organizations led indirectly to an OR project concerned with constructing a man-computer interactive simulation model for a department in local government. The simulation model was to map the decision-making activities of the department and their influence on critical features of the environment which were of interest. The most difficult part of…
On systems analysis
Images into models
Subjectivity and Organisational Politics in Policy Analysis
Traditionally the content of policy models has been dominated by the objectivated, ‘factual’ and particularly rational-analytic aspects of a policy issue. Using examples derived from a current project within a UK local government authority, this paper describes a significantly different approach to policy-modelling. Adopting a deliberate client orientation we have sought to construct for the policy maker client models which are representations of…
The Stakeholder/Collaborator Strategy Workshop
Action Research for Management Research
Action research has become increasingly prominent among management researchers as an espoused paradigm used to justify the validity of a range of research outputs. In this paper we introduce and discuss 12 contentions which, we argue, justify an action research project as quality research. The contentions are presented through a discussion of a number of important issues: generality and theory generation, the type of theory development appropriat…
Creating Collaborative Advantage
The stakeholder/collaborator strategy workshop About four years ago a colleague (Fran Ackennann) and I were invited to help the Northern Ireland Prison Service develop a new strategy. The prison service is a part of the Northern Ireland Office and was seen as a critical part of any attempts to develop a strategy for Northern Ireland. The prison service was unlike any other in the world – it housed mostly political prisoners who were often members…
The Challenge of Collaborative Governance
Partnerships increasingly play a major role in determining and implementing major policy drives in localities. Under-standing how they may provide value is therefore essential to understanding modern governance principles. This article describes action research aiming to develop a conceptualization of fac-tors inherent in collaborative forms and, hence, about their practicality as governance tools. Different interpreta-tions of what collaborative…
Contributions of Planning Under Pressure
Planning under Pressure offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Strategic Choice Approach, which has gradually been attracting worldwide recognition as a fresh, versatile and practical approach to collaborative decision-making under uncertainty
Researching Organizations using Action Research
A decade on after it first published to international acclaim, the seminal Handbook of Organization Studies has been updated to capture exciting new developments in the field. Providing a retrospective and prospective overview of organization studies, this Handbook continues to challenge and inspire readers with its synthesis of knowledge and literature. As ever, contributions have been selected to reflect the diversity of the field. New chapters…
Putting the Resource‐Based View of Strategy and Distinctive Competencies to Work in Public Organizations
A key to the success of public organizations is their ability to identify and build capacity, particularly their distinctive competencies, in order to produce the greatest value for key stakeholders. This article grounds this proposition in the resource‐based view of organizations and presents a method for identifying and making use of distinctive competencies in the form of a “livelihood scheme”—a business model appropriate for the public sector…
Discovering Collaborative Advantage: The Contributions of Goal Categories and Visual Strategy Mapping
Collaboration can make sense when there is some sort of “collaborative advantage” to be gained, meaning organizations can achieve something together that they cannot easily achieve by themselves. However, the literature is essentially silent on how to identify collaborative advantage. This article addresses this shortcoming in the theory of collaborative advantage for public purposes by proposing a set of goal categories that may be used to help …
Thinking together: What makes Communities of Practice work
In this article, we develop the founding elements of the concept of Communities of Practice by elaborating on the learning processes happening at the heart of such communities. In particular, we provide a consistent perspective on the notions of knowledge, knowing and knowledge sharing that is compatible with the essence of this concept – that learning entails an investment of identity and a social formation of a person. We do so by drawing richl…
Towards a resilience management guideline — Cities as a starting point for societal resilience
Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation
Modelling Stakeholder Dynamics for Supporting Group Decision and Negotiation: Theory to Practice
Group Decision and Negotiation methods can help identify optimal, or efficient, solutions to complex problems and so aid decision-makers. However, recommendations depend for their success, in part, on their political feasibility within, usually, complex organisational settings. A part of the complexity of effective implementation derives from understanding the responses of stakeholders to the proposed decisions. The responses of stakeholders can …
Computer Science (13 works) · Business (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Complex Systems and Decision Making (7 works) · Management science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Knowledge management (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works)