Expert within organizations: Definition and theoretical framework

L’expert au sein des organisations: définition et cadrage théorique

Jean-Philippe Bootz, Pascal Lièvre and Éric Schenk ()
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Jean-Philippe Bootz: Humanis - Hommes et management en société / Humans and management in society - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg
Pascal Lièvre: CleRMa - Clermont Recherche Management - ESC Clermont-Ferrand - École Supérieure de Commerce (ESC) - Clermont-Ferrand - UCA [2017-2020] - Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020]
Éric Schenk: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Experts have become an essential figure within organizations. In particular, the advent of the knowledge-based economy has propelled this actor to the center of concerns insofar as it plays a key role in the innovation process. The processes aimed at the development and enhancement of experts are thus tending to multiply. In practice, the qualification of expert is often associated with the number of years of experience or envisaged only in connection with technical skills, so that a generalized confusion appears between expert and experience and between expert and specialist. Our contribution aims to propose a definitional model of the expert within organizations. We characterize the expert by a dimension that is both cognitive and social, which are grouped here in a single framework. The expert is thus understood as an individual who has the competence to analyze and resolve diverse and non-trivial situations by relying on an ability to quickly combine and mobilize scientific and experiential knowledge. It also has social legitimacy, which is based either on strong signals (belonging to a formal institutional structure) or on weak signals (within self-organized networks).

Keywords: Experiential knowledge; Scientific knowledge; Legitimacy; Community; Expert; Connaissance expérientielle; Connaissance scientifique; Légitimité; Communauté (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Published in Revue internationale de psychosociologie et de gestion des comportements organisationnels, 2019, XXV (63), pp.11-25. ⟨10.3917/rips1.063.0011⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/rips1.063.0011

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