The Organization of the Expert Society (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138340685 ISBN 13: 9781138340688

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

It is often claimed that we live in an expert society, a society where more and more individuals take expert roles in increasingly narrow fields. In contrast to more traditional experts most of these new experts lack generally accepted mechanisms for the certification and legitimation of their expertise. This book focuses on these new as well as established experts and the efforts undertaken to secure and legitimate their expertise. We view these efforts as organizing attempts and study them on four different levels – the society, the market, the organization and the individual.

Based on empirical studies on these four levels of analysis, The Organization of the Expert Society makes the argument that current organizing initiatives in the expert society are based in an objectifying view of expertise that risks concealing and downplaying key aspects of expertise. Well-intended organizing initiatives in the expert society thus run the risk of promoting ignorance rather than securing expertise.

Focusing on a current, general and global phenomenon, the rise and organization of an expert society. The Organization of the Expert Society will be key reading for scholars, academics and policy makers in the management fields of Organizational Theory, Management Consulting, Organizations & Society, Critical Management Studies as well as the disciplines of Sociology, Political Science and Social Anthropology.

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About the Author

Staffan Furusten is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Organization at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), and the director of the Stockholm Centre for Organization Research (SCORE), an interdisciplinary research centre run jointly by SSE and Stockholm University, Sweden.

Andreas Werr is a Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and Head of its Department of Management and Organization. He is also Head of the Center for HRM and Knowledge work at the SSE institute for Research, Sweden.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138340685
• ISBN 13: 9781138340688
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Werr Andreas