Open Dialogue: Frequently Asked Questions

Open Dialogue is an approach to working with people and their families experiencing psychosocial distress. Interest in Open Dialogue in Australia has been growing recently, raising questions about its adaption and implementation to local contexts. This article is an attempt to answer some of the frequently asked questions we have encountered in training and discussions about Open Dialogue. We attempt to provide responses to questions of how Open Dialogue is different to what is done already, how it fits with current approaches, how you know if you are doing it, whether it is passive or just about doing reflections, issues about including the social network, and concerns about the evidence base. This article aims to present a variety of viewpoints in relation to these questions and to hopefully further discussions on how Open Dialogue can be implemented and adapted to Australian health care and social care contexts.     

企业开放式创新实施机制:项目管理视角

开放式创新是目前理论界和企业界关注的热点,从项目层面研究企业开放式创新管理对于企业更具指导意义。选取中控EPA项目作为研究对象,运用项目管理分析框架,从项目概念形成和项目实现两个阶段对EPA项目的具体运作进行了详细阐释。研究显示,成功的项目需要同时获得企业高层管理人员和项目成员的大力支持;企业的开放式创新应该根据创新项目流程进行有选择性开放;在项目运作过程中,应综合使用内向和外向开放式创新模式;发展中国家的高技术企业应积极争取政府支持,特别是在一些关系产业发展的重大项目开发上。     

西方学术出版机制、误区及其借鉴

我国目前过分强调学术期刊、大学出版社的转制及市场化问题。在西方,尤其是美国,大学主办的学术期刊及其出版社是大学的一个有机组成部分,被绝对地界定为非营利性机构;西方国家的学术期刊、大学出版社一般由学校注资,绝大部分其他学术期刊也往往由国家和社会的各种财政、资金、基金进行资助,其成熟的出版机制是由政府、各种基金会、各种学术团体、企业等组织起来的一个比较严密的经费资助、使用、监督机制;西方学术期刊的商业化改造已经引发了深刻的"学术期刊危机",为此催生了学术期刊的"开放存取运动"。我国应积极借鉴他们的成功机制,对其"危机"引以为戒,以免误入歧途。目前,业内应当在"十二五规划纲要"提出的"探索"和"创新"上下功夫,而不是简单地把学术出版"一刀切"地市场化了之。     

高校开放办学的价值、内涵与策略

开放办学是经济社会发展的现实需求,是高等教育发展的基本规律,也是高校内涵建设的必然选择。开放办学核心在于区域协同和国际合作,关键在于开放理念的树立以及机制和平台的构建。开放办学在“一体两翼”的框架下,要坚持遵循从被动服务走向主动合作,从配合研究走向协同创新,从单边合作走向双边互惠,从容纳吸收走向交流融合的行动策略。     

Promoting the Visibility of Educational Research through an Institutional Repository

Established in 1994 through the amalgamation of several teacher training colleges, The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) is the major multidisciplinary teacher education provider in the Hong Kong SAR. Despite this, the Institute does not have a particularly high research profile when compared with its peer institutions in Hong Kong and around the world. Its research publishing achieves modest exposure and impact in international educational research literature. The Institute has a goal to attain the title of a “university of education” and has identified an improvement in its research output and profile as critical to achieving this. In this context the HKIEd Library embarked on the redevelopment of its institutional repository, changing its direction from being an archive of institutional publications to one which brought together and offered access to the sum total of published output of the Institute since its foundation, in a deliberate effort to promote Institute research. This paper explores the particular approach taken by the Library to the development of the institutional repository, how the repository contributes directly to and aligns with the research strategies of the Institute, and the impact the Repository has had so far on improving the profile of research at HKIEd.     

康乾平叛战争与肃州城镇经济的发展

肃州是清初我国西北因战争而繁荣起来的典型城市。基于辟邻蒙古“准噶尔”部的特殊地理位置,清初,这里不仅是西北边防重镇和交通枢纽,而且边贸繁盛并因此出现了著名的康乾“肃州贸易”,使肃州成长为当时西北“边陲一大商埠”,推动了肃州城镇规模的扩大和地方经济的繁荣。但乾隆二十三年后,随着“平定准噶尔叛乱”的结束,肃州开始内附,其地位的下降导致城镇经济发展的回落。     

Identity Formation in Children and Young People in Open Adoptions from Out-of-home Care in New South Wales,Australia

Semi-structured interviews were used to explore identity development for nine adoptees (aged 9–23 years) who were adopted by their foster carers in New South Wales, Australia. Adoptions were open, with court-ordered face-to-face contact with birth families. Findings suggest that participants had healthy adoptive identities, with coherent and meaningful narratives about their life histories. Adoption provided a sense of security and belonging. Openness provided information to build a self-narrative and encouraged discussion of adoption issues within adoptive families. Adoptive parents were critical in helping children understand their adoption and facilitating direct contact with birth families, thus laying foundations for positive identity development.     

Descriptive Analysis of Foster Care Adoptions in New South Wales,Australia

This paper describes the population of children in care in New South Wales, Australia, who were adopted by their foster families (N?=?372) from 2003 to 2014. Data pertaining to 370 of these adoptees were available and obtained from administrative records accompanying adoption applications. Most of these children had been placed with their subsequent adoptive family during infancy. However, adoption orders occurred much later in their lives. According to the available information at the time of adoption, these children did not suffer the high levels of mental health problems typically identified in populations of children in foster care. Though the data do not include follow-up to determine if the contact agreed upon at the time of adoption orders translated into practice, the most frequently postadoption arrangement recorded was face-to-face contact, four times a year with mother and siblings. The high levels of openness and face-to-face contact in Australian adoptions from care are a significant point of difference with other adoption models, and presents a need for research in the area.

IMPLICATIONS

• Following the change of legislation in New South Wales, Australia, that prioritises open adoption over foster care, social workers in the field of child protection are well placed to assist in this process.

• Social workers can assess children entering care to identify those who will benefit from adoption in a timely manner; undertake casework and administrative aspects of the adoption process; work closely with the child, and birth and adoptive families by delivering pre- and post-adoption supports; and conduct longitudinal research on the outcomes for children adopted from care.

     

Open innovation and quality management: the moderating role of interorganisational IT infrastructure and complementary learning styles

This study seeks to explain the influence of quality management on the relationship between open innovation and performance. We propose that, to contribute to open innovation performance, an organisation’s commitment to quality improvement must rely on the combination of its own resources and capabilities and its open innovation partners’ resources and capabilities. Specifically, we examine the moderating role of an interorganisational IT infrastructure and the complementarity of learning styles among an organisation committed to quality improvement and its supply network. Using data from 270 managers of European firms, our results show that the negative effects of quality management on open innovation performance can be overcome by complementing the organisation’s learning style with that of its open innovation partner, particularly, its supply network, and, most importantly, obtaining information technologies compatible with those of its supply network members.