The Social Ecology of Participation Customs: Competition and cooperation in Multidisciplinary Research Centers (S&S: Standard Grant)

这个为期两年的项目employes社会网络分析和人种学的方法来研究创新和组织变革的两个新兴的多功能，多学科的大学研究中心（MMURCs）。MMURCs涉及跨学科和机构的合作，并正在成为越来越常见的工具，以推进基础和应用研究在美国通过研究研究人员如何适应MMURCs所造成的组织和智力挑战，研究人员的目标是使更好的评估和管理方法，为协作科学和技术研究。本研究运用社会网络分析和民族志方法，应用并扩展了参与习俗和边界工作的概念，以更好地理解竞争与合作MMURCs。 以前对组织的社会网络分析对理解社会结构与创新和生产力的关系做出了重大贡献。该项目通过仔细关注社会关系的主观意义，它们如何变化以及这些变化的影响来补充和扩展这些见解。通过将网络关系的动态视为基于参与习俗的分析，社交网络分析的见解将扩展到社会互动的研究。

This two-year project employes social network analyses and ethnographic methods to study innovation and organizational change in two emerging multipurpose, multidiscipline university research centers (MMURCs). MMURCs involve collaboration across disciplines and institutions and are becoming increasingly common tools for advancing both basic and applied research in the U.S. By studying how researchers adapt to the organizational and intellectual challenges wrought by MMURCs, the researchers aim to enable better evaluation and management approaches for collaborative science and technology research. This study applies and extends the concepts of participation customs and boundary work, using social network analysis and ethnographic methods, to yield better understanding of competition and cooperation MMURCs. Previous social network analyses of organizations have significantly contributed to understandings of how social structure relates to innovation and productivity. This project complements and extends those insights through careful attention to the subjective meaning of social ties, how they change, and the implications of those changes. By treating the dynamics of network ties as analytically grounded in participation customs, the insights of social networks analysis will be extended to the study of social interaction.