Advancing the Science of Organizations: Work and workshops coordinated with the CASBS Summer Institute on Organizations and Their Effectiveness

推进组织科学：与 CASBS 组织及其有效性夏季研究所协调的工作和研讨会

• 批准号: 2122556
• 负责人: Walter Powell
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2122556&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Advancing; Science; Organizations; Work; workshops

Organizations are all around us: not just firms, plants, and work groups, but also hospitals, schools, and governments. Given such a broad domain, a huge fraction of economic activity, as well as much political and social activity, is undertaken as organized activity. One might think, then, that academics would be actively studying the science of organizations and their effectiveness. To some extent, this is true, but the field is badly fragmented: different disciplines operate mostly in isolation; many professional schools focus on only their own kind of organization (e.g., hospitals, schools, public agencies, businesses). Meanwhile, social-science departments often regard the science of organizations as outside their purview, yet doctoral training in professional schools sometimes lacks the depth available in social-science departments. To better respond to this situation, this project convenes a series of workshops and multi-disciplinary collaborations to advance the science of organizations and imagine its future directions. These workshops will engage the network and expertise already shaped by the four Summer Institutes on “Organizations and Their Effectiveness” at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University, co-directed by Robert Gibbons (MIT) and Woody Powell (Stanford University). This network includes young, problem-solving scholars researching organizational effectiveness from a wide range of disciplines (e.g., communications, economics, education, management, political science, public policy, social psychology, and sociology) and in the contexts of very different kinds of organizations (e.g, firms, government agencies, hospitals, courts, churches, schools, police departments, and social movements). This group is well positioned not only to help imagine but also to help implement the future of the science of organizations. Participants will be assigned into small, multi-disciplinary teams and presented with the question of how NSF might continue to advance and fund the science of organization. The teams will discuss the ecosystem of research funding for organizational science, including government agencies such as the NSF, major foundations and philanthropies, and university centers. After identifying areas of consensus and disagreement, participants will collaborate on strategies that warrant further elaboration and synthesize these recommendations. In this way, these workshops seek two related objectives: to enlist young experts in imagining the future of the science of organizations; and to cultivate potential leaders and collaborators in implementing this future.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

组织就在我们身边：不仅是公司、工厂和工作组，还有医院、学校和政府。由于领域如此广泛，很大一部分经济活动以及许多政治和社会活动都是作为有组织的活动进行的。有人可能会认为，学术界应该积极研究组织科学及其有效性。在某种程度上，这是正确的，但该领域是严重分散的：不同的学科大多是孤立运作的;许多专业学校只关注自己的组织类型（例如，医院、学校、公共机构、企业）。与此同时，社会科学系通常认为组织科学不在其研究范围之内，但专业学校的博士培训有时缺乏社会科学系的深度。为了更好地应对这种情况，该项目召集了一系列研讨会和多学科合作，以推进组织科学并设想其未来方向。这些讲习班将利用斯坦福大学行为科学高级研究中心的四个“组织及其有效性”暑期研究所已经形成的网络和专门知识，该研究所由罗伯特·吉本斯（麻省理工学院）和伍迪·鲍威尔（斯坦福大学）共同指导。这个网络包括年轻的，解决问题的学者研究组织有效性从广泛的学科（例如，传播学、经济学、教育学、管理学、政治学、公共政策、社会心理学和社会学）以及不同类型组织的背景（例如，公司、政府机构、医院、法院、教堂、学校、警察部门和社会运动）。这个小组不仅可以帮助想象，而且可以帮助实现组织科学的未来。参与者将被分配到小型的多学科团队，并提出NSF如何继续推进和资助组织科学的问题。这些团队将讨论组织科学研究资金的生态系统，包括NSF等政府机构，主要基金会和慈善机构以及大学中心。在确定了共识和分歧领域之后，与会者将就需要进一步拟订的战略进行合作，并综合这些建议。通过这种方式，这些研讨会寻求两个相关的目标：招募年轻专家想象组织科学的未来;并培养潜在的领导者和合作者，以实现这一未来。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准的支持。