Ways of knowing and inclusive management practices

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Feldman, Martha S.; Khademian, Anne M.; Ingram, Helen; Schneider, Anne S.
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Irvine; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00669.x
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 89-99
• 关键词: boundary organizations; public deliberation; POLICY; governance; science; ACCOUNTABILITY; legitimacy; POLITICS; objects

摘要

The authors engage structural and agentic perspectives to examine opportunities for deliberation and the purposeful role of managers in creating those opportunities. Drawing on actor-network theory as a way of understanding the process of structuring knowledge, this essay focuses on the continuous enactment and reenactment of networks of human and nonhuman actants and the associations that connect them. This thinking is applied to policy issues, which the authors propose should he understood as ways of knowing. The fluidity of such ways of knowing provides opportunities for public managers to use the inclusive practices associated with boundary experiences, boundary objects, and boundary organizations to facilitate deliberation.