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.

组织都在我们周围：不仅是公司，工厂和工作组，还包括医院，学校和政府。鉴于如此广泛的领域，大量的经济活动以及许多政治和社会活动都是有组织的活动。因此，可能会认为学者将积极研究组织的科学及其有效性。在某种程度上，这是事实，但是该领域的分散严重：不同的学科主要是孤立的；许多专业学校仅专注于自己的组织（例如医院，学校，公共机构，企业）。同时，社会科学部门通常会涉及组织科学，但专业学校的博士培训有时缺乏社会科学部门可用的深度。为了更好地应对这种情况，该项目召集了一系列的研讨会和多学科合作，以推动组织科学和想象力的未来方向。这些研讨会将吸引由四个夏季学院在斯坦福大学的高级研究中心（CASBS）的“组织及其有效性”中已经塑造的网络和专业知识，由罗伯特·吉本斯（MIT）和伍迪·鲍威尔（Woody Powell）和斯坦福大学（Stanford University）共同执导。该网络包括年轻的，解决问题的学者，从广泛的学科（例如，沟通，经济学，教育，管理，政治科学，公共政策，社会心理学和社会学）研究组织有效性，以及在非常不同类型的组织的背景下（例如，公司，政府机构，政府机构，医院，教会，教会，教会，学校，警察，警察，社会和社会运动）。该小组不仅可以帮助想象力，还可以帮助实施组织科学的未来。参与者将被分配到小型的多学科团队中，并提出了NSF如何继续发展和资助组织科学的问题。团队将讨论组织科学研究资金的生态系统，包括NSF，主要基金会和慈善机构以及大学中心等政府机构。在确定了共识和分歧的领域之后，参与者将合作制定需要进一步阐述并综合这些建议的策略。通过这种方式，这些研讨会寻求两个相关的目标：吸引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实施这一未来。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评论标准来评估，被认为是宝贵的支持。