Expertise In and Around Organizations
The Changing Constitution and Ecology of Expertise
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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.
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
Kasper T. Elmholdt is an Associate Professor of Organization Studies and Public Administration at Aalborg University, Denmark.
Ruthanne Huising is Professor of Management and Organization at ESSEC Business School, France.
Elina I. Mäkinen is a Professor of Science, Technology, and Organization at the Faculty of Management and Business at Tampere University, Finland.