Journal
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages 1359-1367Publisher
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0648
Keywords
collective intelligence; scientific communities; academic paradigms; organization science
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- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems [0963451] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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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.
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