The intellectual and social organization of the sciences

Knowledge is increasingly seen as an economic resource to be developed and managed by firms and national governments, as well as the basis for high-level expertise. The modern sciences have become viewed as crucial to the creation of new industries and as the source of new methods and understandings...

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Auteur principal : Whitley Richard (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The intellectual and social organization of the sciences / Richard Whitley
Édition : 2e éd.
Publié : New York : Oxford University Press , C 2000
Description matérielle : 1 volume (319 pages)
Sujets :
  • 1. The modern sciences as reputational work organizations
  • 2. Reputational control over scientific work and the growth of employment opportunities for scientists
  • 3. The degree of mutual dependence between scientists and the organization of scientific fields
  • 4. The degree of task uncertainty and the organization of scientific fields
  • 5. The organizational structure of scientific fields
  • 6. The contexts of scientific fields
  • 7. Relationships between scientific fields and changes in the organization of the sciences