Were Social Labs immune to COVID-19? Impacts and benefits
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25310%2F22%3A39919057" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25310/22:39919057 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/mmcks-2022-0022" target="_blank" >https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/mmcks-2022-0022</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mmcks-2022-0022" target="_blank" >10.2478/mmcks-2022-0022</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Were Social Labs immune to COVID-19? Impacts and benefits
Original language description
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted higher education worldwide. Higher education institutions needed to adapt very rapidly to the crisis and a new environment, and also needed to revise their role in society. Higher education institutions can contribute to social innovation through research, education and helping to address citizens' issues and communities' needs, which is why the creation of social labs by higher education institutions has increased in the last decades. Social labs are spaces where higher education institutions experiment and test new ideas. However, social labs at higher education institutions are still a relatively new phenomenon and have not yet been examined sufficiently. Moreover, it is not fully known how COVID-19 affected social labs' activities and impacted their establishment. To reflect on the current reality, this article focuses on two research questions: (1) How were social lab activities and partnerships affected during the pandemic? and (2) What impact has COVID-19 had on social labs? To answer these questions, a quantitative survey was conducted, and the data was analysed by quantitative and qualitative methods. The results showed that the biggest challenge lies in organisational processes and human resources management. Yet, it should be noted that COVID-19 also provided opportunities. They are mainly linked with an impulse to develop innovations and increase digitisation in social labs. The study showed that social labs with flexible organisational processes and human resource management were more successful in their adaptation to crisis conditions caused by COVID-19. In summary, this article provides insight into social labs in higher education institutions by bridging an existing knowledge gap in scientific literature, and expands on it by investigating pandemics as having a crisis impact on social lab development.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Management & Marketing-Challenges for the Knowledge Society
ISSN
1842-0206
e-ISSN
2069-8887
Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
October
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
381-401
UT code for WoS article
000877178600004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85141958493