Call for papers for an ESSHC panel, Workplace Knowledge and Management, Vienna 23 – 26 April 2013
Workplace Knowledge and Management
Call for papers for an Economic History Network panel
ESSHC Vienna, Austria 23 – 26 April 2013
This panel seeks to provide historical perspectives on
the management of knowledge workers in the modern period.
Technological change plays an essential role in
explanations of modern economic growth. While economic historians debate the
extent to which formal knowledge contributed to the early stages of
industrialization, by the nineteenth century, public and private interests were
recognizing the importance of formal knowledge production to promote
technological development. With the
creation of industrial research laboratories, organizations became increasingly
concerned with promoting and systematizing the production of “risky” as well as
“useful” knowledge.
The demand for formally educated workers, engineers, and
scientists has not diminished over time and neither has the need of those
organizations who employ knowledge workers to develop frameworks to recognize
individual creative efforts while encouraging collaboration between the
“idea-creators” and other workers involved in the practical realization,
commercialization and marketing of creative ideas, on the one hand, and control
the use and develop of this knowledge on the other.
We are seeking
two additional participants for a session on historical perspectives of the
management of knowledge production and knowledge workers broadly conceived.
Proposals for
papers for this session should be sent to the corresponding organizer no later
than on 06 May 2013. Proposals should contain a working title and an abstract
of 100 - 500 words. Please include a brief CV.
The
participants will be notified of the panel selection
after the 15 May 2014.
For further information about the European Social Science
History Conference please visit: http://esshc.socialhistory.org/
Corresponding organizer: Andrea R. Maestrejuan,
Metropolitan State University of Denver, amaestrejuan@gmail.com