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Expertise In and Around Organizations explores the shifting ecology of expertise in an era where the authority of traditional domain experts is increasingly challenged, yet expertise remains indispensable. Organizations rely more than ever on expertise to tackle some of society's most urgent and complex challenges. But how does expertise function when it is no longer solely authorized by rationalist or scientific foundations or traditional domain experts?
Bringing together a group of scholars from diverse disciplines and approaches, this volume examines the evolving ecology of expertise and the competition for recognition among its many forms. In two distinct sections, the book expands traditional conceptualizations of expertise. The first section highlights overlooked, emergent, and undervalued forms of expertise that work alongside rationalist, scientific forms of expertise to produce impactful interventions. The second section delves into the roles of intermediaries, allies, laypeople, and audiences in shaping how expertise is recognized and organized within this expanding ecology.
Together, these chapters push the boundaries of how we understand expertise in and around organizations and move beyond conventional notions of domain expertise. In an age of misinformation, new technologies, emerging media, and shifting job roles, this collection is essential for scholars of management, organization studies, sociology, and anyone interested in the evolving landscapes of knowledge and authority.
Contents
Section 1. Obscured, Undervalued, and Emergent Forms of Expertise in Organizations: Beyond Domain Expertise
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Changing Constitution and Ecology of Expertise; Ruthanne Huising, Kasper T. Elmholdt, and Elina I. Mäkinen
Chapter 2. Of Proust's Madeleines and Whales' Songs: An Aesthetic Perspective on Expertise; Pauli Pakarinen and Giada Baldessarelli
Chapter 3. Learning to See: How Scientists Develop Professional Vision and Decomposition Expertise; Elina I. Mäkinen
Chapter 4. The Growth of Process Expertise and the Absence of Process Experts in the Digital Age; Jeffrey W. Treem and William C. Barley
Chapter 5. Apolitical, Professional or Institutional: Reconceptualizing Expertise in Public Administration; Samantha Ortiz Casillas
Chapter 6. Purifying Markets: Alignment Expertise and the Collaborative Production of Global Market Indices; Alex Preda
Chapter 7. Groundwork: Expanding Expertise in Making Robots Useable Through Domestication and Care; Kajsa Lindberg and Elena Raviola
Chapter 8. Running Code or Better Code? Expertise De/centralization Tensions in the Ethereum Blockchain Ecosystem; Paula Ungureanu
Chapter 9. The Coevolution of Tasks and Expertise; Lisa E. Cohen and Le H. Bui
Section 2. The Expanding Ecology of Expertise: Intermediaries, Allies, Laypeople, and Practitioners
Chapter 10. Who's an Expert and Why Does It Matter?: How Social and Economic Inequalities Shape the Production and Recognition of Expertise; Nicholas Occhiuto
Chapter 11. Expert Authority and the Public Sphere: Media Intermediaries, Professional Norm Violation, and the Market for Expertise; Noah A. Benjamin-Pollak and Arvind Karunakaran
Chapter 12. Allies of Expertise: How Laypeople Defend the Epistemic Authority of Science Online; Katharina Berr
Chapter 13. Enter the Spiral: The Adverse Consequences of Professional and Lay Expertise for Sufferers' Lived Experiences; Siddhant Ritwick and Tomi Koljonen
Chapter 14. Hiding in Plain Sight: Expertise (In)Visibilities and (Mis)Matches in Modern Organizational Structures; Pedro Monteiro
Chapter 15. Algorithmic Expert Services: When Expert Values Meet Scalability Thinking; Cornelius Heimstädt and Maximilian Heimstädt
Chapter 16. Expertise Put to the Test: How Clients Continually Assess the Worth of Management Consultants; Kasper T. Elmholdt, Jean-Charles Leynadier, and Alaric Bourgoin
