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Heisig (Editor) Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale
Proceedings 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management, Potsdam 23-24 June 2022 190
The SageResearch Tribe builds leadership skills through both team leadership appointments
and leaders of individual proposals. Members build confidence by learning to accept or reject
feedback from peers and established academic reviewers. Graduate students forming the initial
team, in 2018, had a variety of backgrounds and the initial five students were a variety of stages
within their doctoral program (coursework to dissertation defense). Students' research interests
included culture and information literacy, training and development, veterans and the
workforce, smart cities, and information behavior in social media with the faculty director
studying workforce wisdom. During the first year, the tribe worked to develop trust, negotiated
common research interest, determined venues for scholarly dissemination, and created a first
annual workplan to be conducted over the next 12 months.
As exciting as the first year was, the second (2019) year brought dynamic changes in team
members. The team worked to integrate new students while gradually phasing out others -
relationships and trust are key. The team also began building one of its strongest assets - grit in
the form of receiving constructive feedback from peers, accepting and implementing critiques
of rejected peer-reviewed papers, and navigating difficult conversations between members to
brainstorm and develop important and innovative research. With the development of new skills,
the second year exhibited team productivity growing with papers and posters accepted at major
international conferences and a chapter submission.
The third year (2020) continued the trend of change with three members graduating and a new
member joining. However, in this instance the three graduating members shifted their roles on
the team (as alumni) but continued a full commitment to team goals. With fewer members
exiting the team, productivity continued with papers and posters being accepted at major
international conferences and a published book chapter. Though dynamics and membership
continue to change, the team was normalized and poised for a fantastic fourth year.
The 2021 team is composed of the four doctoral students, three alumnae, and a faculty mentor.
The team's annual schedule now includes 12 papers, panels, or papers for national and
international conferences, four journal articles in development, two under reviews, and two in
press. At this time, four previous team members have completed their Ph.Ds.
SESSION STRUCTURE
There are tremendous lessons to learn from a tribe of scholars with common goals. We propose
an innovative and interactive workshop format.
Part 1: Story of development, normalization, and performance. Part 1 will provide lessons
learned, thorns and roses that are part of being a member or a collaborative high performance
knowledge team.
Part II: Implementation. Part II will provide an opportunity for participants to create a plan forimplementation in their organization (corporate or university).
WORKSHOP LEADERS
Dr. Jeff M. Allen is an internationally recognized scholar in the area of workforce innovation
for the knowledge economy. He serves as a Regents Professor of Information Science at the
University of North Texas. Together with his colleagues, he prepares students for jobs that are
not yet created.
Malak Khader is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of North Texas, where her field of study
is broadly Information literacy, in collaboration with cultural and religious literacies. She has
also done research with Information Behavior, Information Seeking, and Data Ethics.
Millicent (Milly) Njeri is a currently pursuing her Ph.D., at the University of North Texas, in
Information Science with a concentration in Consumer Behavior and Experience Management
and minor in Research, Measurement and Statistics. Her research interests include smart
tourism, data analytics, consumer experience and behavior management, and tourism
destination management.
Dr. Amy Rosellini is a knowledge management strategist currently working as Chief People
Officer for a national investment real estate group. She received her PhD in Information
Science with the University of North Texas. Her research focuses primarily on knowledge
management systems, corporate culture and knowledge measurement.
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Allen, Jeff M., 1968-; Khader, Malak; Njeri, Millicent & Rosellini, Amy. Research Teams: Fostering Scholarship and Practice, text, June 2022; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2047094/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.