Collective Intelligence in the Organization of Science

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Woolley, Anita Williams; Fuchs, Erica
• 署名单位: Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0648
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 1359-1367
• 关键词: COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE; scientific communities; academic paradigms; organization science

摘要

Whereas some suggest that consensus is the desirable end goal in fields of science, this paper suggests that the existing literature on collective intelligence offers key alternative insights into the evolution of knowledge in scientific communities. Drawing on the papers in this special issue, we find that the papers fall across a spectrum of convergent, divergent, and reflective activities. In addition, we find there to be a set of ongoing theoretical tensions common across the papers. We suggest that this diversity of activities and ongoing theoretical tensions-both signs of collective intelligence-may be a far more appropriate measure than consensus of the health of a scientific community.