Were Social Labs immune to COVID-19? Impacts and benefits

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Were Social Labs immune to COVID-19? Impacts and benefits

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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&apos; issues and communities&apos; 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&apos; 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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Were Social Labs immune to COVID-19? Impacts and benefits

Popis výsledku anglicky

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&apos; issues and communities&apos; 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&apos; 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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Management &amp; Marketing-Challenges for the Knowledge Society

ISSN

1842-0206

e-ISSN

2069-8887

Svazek periodika

17

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

October

Stát vydavatele periodika

PL - Polská republika

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

381-401

Kód UT WoS článku

000877178600004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85141958493