Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0664103

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0664103

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Using empirical materials to inform normative thinking about the organization of groups for the production of knowledge. It is increasingly apparent that knowledge is produced by organized groups-e.g. research or management teams. The idea of heroic individual creators is still presented in popular media, but has little credence in hard-headed organizational contexts, where, e.g., Wenger's idea of the community of practice plays an important role in steering policy and institutional development. Finding out how we can organize collectives so that they can function WELL as producers of knowledge is the aim of this project in social epistemology. Its success will contribute directly to theoretical discourse about innovation in organizations and promises to contribute indirectly to the improvement of the institutional bases of our cultural and economic capital.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2006

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $117,552.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Philosophy | Planning And Problem Solving | Epistemology | Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Technological and organisational innovation | Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Studies in human society |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Epistemology | Philosophy | Planning And Problem Solving | Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology | Studies in human society | Technological and organisational innovation

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