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Exploring Expertise

Issues and Perspectives

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  1. Robin Williams
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  2. Wendy Faulkner
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The growing social and economic significance of expertise is reflected in popular suggestions that we are moving into a post-industrial 'knowledge society'. The subject of expertise is becoming recognised in a range of scholarly disciplines ranging from science and technology, psychology, computing and artificial intelligence through to management and organisational behaviour. Exploring Expertise brings together some of these diverse understandings of the character and implications of expertise, and demonstrates through a set of empirical case studies how expertise means different things to different groups, how it is constructed differently in different settings, and the consequences of this process for relations between 'members' of the knowledge society and those 'on the outside'. The book includes case study material ranging from a hospital ward to a factory to a nuclear weapons facility.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Exploring Expertise: Issues and Perspectives

    • Wendy Faulkner, James Fleck, Robin Williams
    Pages 1-27

  3. On the Economics of Expertise

    • Pier Paolo Saviotti
    Pages 29-53

  4. Gender, Expertise and Feminism

    • Maureen McNeil
    Pages 55-79

  5. How Can Expertise be Defined? Implications of Research from Cognitive Psychology

    • Robert R. Hoffman
    Pages 81-100

  6. Building Models of Expertise

    • Nigel Shadbolt
    Pages 101-120

  7. Cultural Competence and Scientific Knowledge

    • Harry Collins
    Pages 121-142

  8. Expertise: Knowledge, Power and Tradeability

    • James Fleck
    Pages 143-171

  9. Knowledge Flows in Innovation

    • Wendy Faulkner
    Pages 173-195

  10. Trading Places: A Case Study of the Formation and Deployment of Computing Expertise

    • Robin Williams, Rob Procter
    Pages 197-222

  11. The Contribution of Tacit Knowledge to Innovation

    • Jacqueline Senker
    Pages 223-244

  12. Nuclear Weapons Experts: Bomb Building Inside and Outside the Laboratory

    • Graham Spinardi
    Pages 245-264

  13. Management and the Hybridization of Expertise in Network Design

    • John Howells
    Pages 265-284

  14. ‘You’ll Figure it Out Between You’: Problem-Solving with the Web-8

    • Gillian Hardstone
    Pages 285-301

  15. Automating Blood Pressure Measurements: The Division of Labour and the Transformation of Method

    • Joanne Hartland
    Pages 303-324

  16. The Certainty Trough

    • Donald MacKenzie
    Pages 325-329

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 331-340
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About the authors

HARRY COLLINS Department of Sociology, University of Southampton GILLIAN HARDSTONE CENTRIM, University of Brighton JOANNE HARTLAND School of Social Science, University of Bath ROBERT HOFFMAN Department of Psychology, Adelphi University, New York, USA JOHN HOWELLS Department of Business and Management, Brunel University DONALD MACKENZIE Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh MAUREEN MCNEIL Department of Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham ROB PROCTER Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh PAOLO SAVIOTTI Universite Pierre Mendes-France JACKY SENKER Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex NIGEL SHADBOLT Department of Psychology, Nottingham University GRAHAM SPINARDI RCSS, University of Edinburgh

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exploring Expertise

  • Book Subtitle: Issues and Perspectives

  • Editors: Robin Williams, Wendy Faulkner, James Fleck

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13693-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-63227-7Published: 18 August 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-13695-7Published: 01 January 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-13693-3Published: 27 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 340

  • Topics: International Business, Management

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