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Public Knowledge: An Essay Concerning the Social Dimension of Science.
Harriet Zuckerman,John Ziman +1 more
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Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective
John Seely Brown,Paul Duguid +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take the community of practice as a unifying unit of analysis for understanding knowledge in the firm, and suggest that often too much attention is paid to the idea of community, too little to the implications of practice.
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Action Research: Its Nature and Validity
Peter Checkland,Sue Holwell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the nature and validity of action research and argue that its claim to validity requires a recoverable research process based upon a prior declaration of the epistemology in terms of which findings which count as knowledge will be expressed.
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The “ideograph”: A link between rhetoric and ideology
TL;DR: In this article, it is suggested that a description of political consciousness can be constructed from the structures of meaning exhibited by a society's vocabulary of "ideographs" (i.e., symbols).
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The rate of growth in scientific publication and the decline in coverage provided by Science Citation Index
TL;DR: It is problematic that SCI has been used and is used as the dominant source for science indicators based on publication and citation numbers, because the declining coverage of the citation databases problematizes the use of this source.
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“The Art of Knowing”: Social and Tacit Dimensions of Knowledge and the Limits of the Community of Practice
TL;DR: This article challenges economists' attempts to reduce knowledge to information held by individuals and to reject tacit knowledge as mere uncodified explicit knowledge and attempts to limit the scope of community of practice analysis.