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

参与习俗的社会生态：多学科研究中心的竞争与合作（S

• 批准号: 0724629
• 负责人: Steven Fifield
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0724629&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Social; Ecology; Participation; Customs; Competition

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.

这个为期两年的项目采用社会网络分析和人种学方法来研究两个新兴的多用途、多学科大学研究中心 (MMURC) 的创新和组织变革。 MMURC 涉及跨学科和机构的合作，并且正在成为美国推进基础和应用研究的越来越常见的工具。通过研究研究人员如何适应 MMURC 带来的组织和智力挑战，研究人员旨在为协作科学和技术研究提供更好的评​​估和管理方法。本研究利用社会网络分析和人种学方法，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 MMURC。 先前对组织的社交网络分析极大地促进了对社会结构与创新和生产力之间关系的理解。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。通过将网络联系的动态视为以参与习惯为基础的分析，社交网络分析的见解将扩展到社交互动的研究。