Organizations in the making: Learning and intervening at the science-policy interface. (April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pallett, Helen; Chilvers, Jason
• Is Part Of: Progress in human geography. Volume 39:Number 2(2015:Apr.)
• Page Start: 146
• Page End: 166
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Subjects: co-production -- organizational learning -- organizations -- science and technology studies -- science-policy interface; Human geography -- Periodicals; 304.2
• DOI: 10.1177/0309132513518831
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0309-1325

Abstract

This paper synthesizes recent insights from geography, science and technology studies and related disciplines concerning organizations and organizational learning at the science-policy interface. The paper argues that organizations do not exist and evolve in isolation, but are co-produced through networked connections to other spaces, bodies and practices. Furthermore, organizations should not be studied as stable entities, but are constantly in-the-making. This co-productionist perspective on organizations and organizing has implications for how geographers theorize, study and intervene in organizations at the science-policy interface with respect to encouraging learning and change and in the roles we adopt within and around such organizations.