Miikka J . Lehtonen
Rikkyo University, College of Business, Faculty Member
- Creative Industries, Creativity, Actor Network Theory, Cultural Theory, Culture, Japanese Language And Culture, and 19 moreKnowledge & Creativity Management, Communication, International Business Communication, Visual Studies, Business, New Product Development, Semiotics, Critical Management Studies, Design, International Business, Phenomenology, Design thinking, Videogames, Music Industry, Knowledge Management, Japanese Studies, Japan, Finland, and Environmental Sustainabilityedit
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Previously knowledge management research has focused on written and verbal knowledge, thus neglecting the role of visual knowledge almost completely. Furthermore, received knowledge has been implicitly equated with transmitted knowledge,... more
Previously knowledge management research has focused on written and verbal knowledge, thus neglecting the role of visual knowledge almost completely. Furthermore, received knowledge has been implicitly equated with transmitted knowledge, thus underestimating the semiotic dimension of knowledge sharing. In addition to the nature of knowledge, suitable environments for knowledge sharing have also been studied. According to previous research, virtual environments are suitable only for sharing non-complex knowledge. Thus, the aim of this paper is to discuss the role of visualised knowledge in creating innovations in virtual environments. This paper also incorporates Peirce’s semiotics to Nonaka’s theoretical framework, thus emphasising the semiotic dimension.
DESCRIPTION An interesting paradigm occurs in between regulated safety and passenger’s perceived safety on board passenger ships. Seems to be that passengers perceive the safety through features that are not acknowledged in the Safety of... more
DESCRIPTION An interesting paradigm occurs in between regulated safety and passenger’s perceived safety on board passenger ships. Seems to be that passengers perceive the safety through features that are not acknowledged in the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) regulations. We suggest that in the process of developing regulations, the relation between safety perception and safety regulations should be better understood and it should be recognized that human perception is a dominant factor in human behavior. Therefore, this study traces the underlying connections of the passenger’s safety perception and safety regulations through Actor-Network Theory (ANT). Methodology enables us to illustrate the encounter of the technical and the human perception, and draw attention to shortage of researching human element of safety from human perception perspective. Furthermore, we investigate whether dominant technical perspective on safety lacks certain issues that passengers’ perceive critical for ...
DESCRIPTION The shipscape contains multiple human and non-human characteristics that together contribute to the cruise experience. Although many of these characteristics are identified separately, less research attention has paid into... more
DESCRIPTION The shipscape contains multiple human and non-human characteristics that together contribute to the cruise experience. Although many of these characteristics are identified separately, less research attention has paid into investigation of the cruise experience as an entity and interconnectivity of the characteristics. An ethnographic study was conducted in an authentic passenger ship environment in order to find out what characteristics passengers perceive contributing into the cruise experience. Instead of seeing experiences as belonging to the human domain, this article also brings in non-human actors by drawing on Actor-Network Theory (ANT). ANT is applied to illustrate how experiences emerge and constituted within the passenger ship environment. Using three actor network illustrations: social experiencing, everyday distinction and predictability, this article proposes that people and things become entangled via processes of translation. The shared aims that concurre...
This paper builds on and extends our current understanding of how PechaKucha can be utilized in business school classrooms to create a more student-driven learning space. During the recent years PechaKucha, a PowerPoint presentation... more
This paper builds on and extends our current understanding of how PechaKucha can be utilized in business school classrooms to create a more student-driven learning space. During the recent years PechaKucha, a PowerPoint presentation format consisting of twenty slides that are shown twenty seconds each, has become popular in business school classrooms especially in creating more compelling and engaging presentations. Extant studies on PechaKucha have mostly focused on the presentation aspect of the concept, but in this paper we build on this body of knowledge by looking at PechaKucha as a means for supporting community-building in contemporary classrooms. This insight is drawn from the authors’ participation in PechaKucha Nights in Helsinki, Finland, and Tokyo, Japan, as well as the PechaKucha organizers’ published description of the concept. By aligning ourselves with studio-based learning and experiential learning theories we participate in laying the first theoretical foundations to analyzing PechaKucha in classrooms in order to foster student-driven learning.