Exploring Expertise: Issues and Perspectives

Wendy Faulkner, James Fleck and Robin Williams

Chapter 1 in Exploring Expertise, 1998, pp 1-27 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We live in an age where the number and range of specialist fields of knowledge is burgeoning, and where ‘experts’ from these fields are called on to solve problems and advise in ever more areas of social and economic life. Time and again, however, our reliance on experts and expertise creates dilemmas which strike at the root of modern society — from the practice of democracy and political change to how companies decide on, and implement strategies for, economic growth. Accordingly, the subject of expertise is becoming a recognized ‘issue’ in a range of scholarly disciplines: not least, science and technology studies, including technology assessment and science and technology policy; gender studies, especially feminist critiques of science and medicine; organizational sociology and behaviour; management, especially strategic management, technology management, and human resource management; and in the various disciplines associated with the development of expert systems and artificial intelligence.

Keywords: Expert Knowledge; Tacit Knowledge; Social Study; Technology Study; Knowledge Claim (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13693-3_1

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