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Exploring Expertise: Issues and Perspectives

In: Exploring Expertise

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  • Wendy Faulkner
  • James Fleck
  • Robin Williams

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We live in an age where the number and range of specialist fields of knowledge is burgeoning, and where ‘experts’ from these fields are called on to solve problems and advise in ever more areas of social and economic life. Time and again, however, our reliance on experts and expertise creates dilemmas which strike at the root of modern society — from the practice of democracy and political change to how companies decide on, and implement strategies for, economic growth. Accordingly, the subject of expertise is becoming a recognized ‘issue’ in a range of scholarly disciplines: not least, science and technology studies, including technology assessment and science and technology policy; gender studies, especially feminist critiques of science and medicine; organizational sociology and behaviour; management, especially strategic management, technology management, and human resource management; and in the various disciplines associated with the development of expert systems and artificial intelligence.

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  • Wendy Faulkner & James Fleck & Robin Williams, 1998. "Exploring Expertise: Issues and Perspectives," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Robin Williams & Wendy Faulkner & James Fleck (ed.), Exploring Expertise, chapter 1, pages 1-27, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-13693-3_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13693-3_1
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    1. Amit Jain & Will Mitchell, 2022. "Specialization as a double‐edged sword: The relationship of scientist specialization with R&D productivity and impact following collaborator change," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 43(5), pages 986-1024, May.
    2. Hodson, Mike & Marvin, Simon, 2006. "Reconnecting the technology characterisation of the hydrogen economy to contexts of consumption," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 34(17), pages 3006-3016, November.
    3. Downer, John, 2010. "Anatomy of a disaster: why some accidents are unavoidable," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 36542, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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