PERSPECTIVE---Collective Intelligence in the Organization of Science

Authors:
Anita Williams Woolley;Erica Fuchs
Affiliations:
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213;Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
Venue:
Organization Science
Year:
2011

Citing 32
Cited 0

Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace

Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace
Platform Leadership

Platform Leadership
The Interorganizational Learning Dilemma: Collective Knowledge Development in Strategic Alliances

Organization Science
Path Dependence, Competition, and Succession in the Dynamics of Scientific Revolution

Organization Science
Creating and Disseminating Knowledge Among Organizational Scholars: The Role of Special Issues

Organization Science
Neo-tribes: the power and potential of online communities in health care

Communications of the ACM - Personal information management
Notes on the Evolution of a Research Community: Organization Studies in Anglophone North America, 1945-2000

Organization Science
Managing Strategic Contradictions: A Top Management Model for Managing Innovation Streams

Organization Science
Wintel: Cooperation and Conflict

Management Science
Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration for Sustained Performance

Organization Science
Exploitation-Exploration Tensions and Organizational Ambidexterity: Managing Paradoxes of Innovation

Organization Science
Marginality and Problem-Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search

Organization Science
Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge

Organization Science
Using Organizational Economics to Study Organizational Capability Development and Strategy

Organization Science
Identity in Organizations: Exploring Cross-Level Dynamics

Organization Science
Making Organizational Theory Work: Institutions, Occupations, and Negotiated Orders

Organization Science
On Network Theory

Organization Science
Power, Status, and Learning in Organizations

Organization Science
Computational Modeling for What-Is, What-Might-Be, and What-Should-Be Studies---And Triangulation

Organization Science
Social Entrepreneurship: A Critique and Future Directions

Organization Science
Organizing Ecologies of Complex Innovation

Organization Science
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities

Organization Science
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory

Organization Science
Transactive Memory Systems: Current Issues and Future Research Directions

Organization Science
Reorganizing the Boundaries of Trust: From Discrete Alternatives to Hybrid Forms

Organization Science
Effective Matrices, Decision Frames, and Cooperation in Volunteer Dilemmas: A Theoretical Perspective on Academic Peer Review

Organization Science
Attention to Attention

Organization Science
Advancing the Conceptualization and Operationalization of Novelty in Organizational Research

Organization Science
“I've Got a Theory Paper---Do You?”: Conceptual, Empirical, and Theoretical Contributions to Knowledge in the Organizational Sciences

Organization Science
Organizations as Fonts of Entrepreneurship

Organization Science
Studying Choice and Change: The Intersection of Institutional Theory and Entrepreneurship Research

Organization Science
Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Opportunism

Organization Science

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

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.