The Social and Intellectual Dimensions in the Construction of Scientific Knowledge: The Institutional Theory in Organization Studies in Brazil



Título del documento: The Social and Intellectual Dimensions in the Construction of Scientific Knowledge: The Institutional Theory in Organization Studies in Brazil
Revista: BAR - Brazilian Administration Review
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000335438
ISSN: 1807-7692
Autores: 1
2
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Instituciones: 1Universidade Positivo, Programa de Mestrado e Doutorado em Administracao, Curitiba, Parana. Brasil
2Universidade Federal do Parana, Centro de Pesquisa e Pos-Graduacao em Administracao, Curitiba, Parana. Brasil
Año:
Periodo: Abr-Jun
Volumen: 7
Número: 2
Paginación: 136-154
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, descriptivo
Resumen en inglés Based on the assumption that scientific knowledge is a social construction, (re)produced by a community of practicing researchers, in this article we seek to delineate two dimensions of this process. The first, which we have called the social dimension, has to do with the social interactions among researchers in a determined scientific field, being evaluated as a co-authorship network. The second, the intellectual dimension, defined as the programmatic profile expressed by its substantive content and provided references, is constituted in relational citation structures. With this analytical division in mind, we set out to research how the intellectual structure is conditioned by the social relationships among researchers, with a focus on the institutional analysis perspective in organizational studies in Brazil. For this purpose, we empirically evaluated the phenomenon from the convergence of the social network analysis with the scientometric analysis, seeking support for these analyses within the structurationist perspective of the institutional theory. The results point toward a conditioning of the intellectual dimension by the social dimension since there is significant evidence from individual relationships and relationships at the group level that support the argument for a recursive relationship between the two dimensions
Disciplinas: Administración y contaduría,
Bibliotecología y ciencia de la información,
Ciencia y tecnología
Palabras clave: Historia y teorías de la administración y la contaduría,
Análisis y sistematización de la información,
Ciencia,
Teoría institucional,
Estudios organizacionales,
Conocimiento científico,
Análisis de redes,
Redes sociales,
Cienciometría,
Brasil
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