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T1 – Globalized Validity: International Policy Analysis at IIASA, 1972–1992
AU – Duller, Matthias
AU – Daye, Christian
PY – 2024
Y1 – 2024
N2 – The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) was founded in 1972 in Laxenburg near Vienna and was the world’s first research institute where – according to its own claim – scientists from East and West work together to solve global or transnational problems should. After a description of the founding of IIASA, this article turns to the analysis methods that were used at IIASA and, based on the history of these analysis methods, traces the interactions between organizational form and form of knowledge that shaped everyday research at IIASA in the first two decades of its existence . Due to its specific focus and form of organization, the IIASA provided a conducive environment for the development of an innovative approach to the epistemological, methodological and knowledge policy problems that faced a globally oriented study of the planet and its inhabitants in the second half of the 20th century faced.
AB – The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) was founded in 1972 in Laxenburg near Vienna and was the world’s first research institute where – according to its own claim – scientists from East and West work together to solve global or transnational problems should. After a description of the founding of IIASA, this article turns to the analysis methods that were used at IIASA and, based on the history of these analysis methods, traces the interactions between organizational form and form of knowledge that shaped everyday research at IIASA in the first two decades of its existence . Due to its specific focus and form of organization, the IIASA provided a conducive environment for the development of an innovative approach to the epistemological, methodological and knowledge policy problems that faced a globally oriented study of the planet and its inhabitants in the second half of the 20th century faced.
UR – https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-44331-3_15
U2 – 10.1007/978-3-658-44331-3_15
DO – 10.1007/978-3-658-44331-3_15
M3 – Contribution to book/report
SN – 978-3-658-44330-6
T3 – Organization & Public Management
SP – 327
EP – 345
BT – organizational forms of knowledge acquisition
PB – Springer VS
CY – Wiesbaden
T2 – Ignaz Lieben Symposium 2022: Organizational form and interest in knowledge On the interaction between the organizational design of research institutions and the type of knowledge production
Y2 – 23 June 2022 through 24 June 2022
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