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Forging Foreign Policy: Organizational Identity and Knowledge Production
Social Science History ( IF 0.954 ) Pub Date : 2020-08-26 , DOI: 10.1017/ssh.2020.30
Hana Shepherd

The ideas and knowledge central to foreign policy are often produced within the context of organizations. How do organizations vet people and ideas for knowledge production? I use original data drawn from archives of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an organization that brought together elites with an interest in foreign policy, to examine the production of post–World War II US foreign policy knowledge. Drawing on literature about how organizations evaluate people and ideas, I assess how the CFR staff selected different foreign policy topics for their Program on Studies from 1955 to 1972. Case studies and multinomial logistic regression provide two forms of evidence: The justifications used by the CFR Program on Studies staff to select ideas and the relationship between recommendations of proposers and idea selection. I compare the effect of positive recommendations from different sources to distinguish between prioritizing quality and prestige and organizational identity on the other. Staff used the identity of the organization as a group of elites with particular expertise as a basis for making everyday decisions regarding which foreign policy knowledge would be codified in the program. In this way, the organization occupied a central position in the production of knowledge. This suggests that scholars of evaluation should attend to organization-level features in addition to individual-level characteristics. I discuss the implications for organizations and intellectual production.

中文翻译:

锻造外交政策:组织认同和知识生产

外交政策的核心思想和知识通常是在组织的背景下产生的。组织如何审查知识生产的人员和想法?我使用从外交关系委员会 (CFR) 档案中提取的原始数据,该组织汇集了对外交政策感兴趣的精英,来检查二战后美国外交政策知识的产生。根据有关组织如何评估人员和想法的文献,我评估了 CFR 工作人员如何为 1955 年至 1972 年的研究计划选择不同的外交政策主题。案例研究和多项逻辑回归提供了两种形式的证据: CFR 使用的理由研究人员选择想法的计划以及提议者的建议与想法选择之间的关系。我比较了来自不同来源的正面推荐的效果,以区分优先考虑质量和声望以及组织身份。工作人员利用该组织作为具有特定专业知识的精英群体的身份,作为日常决策的基础,决定哪些外交政策知识将被编入该计划。通过这种方式,组织在知识生产中占据了中心位置。这表明评估学者除了关注个人层面的特征外,还应该关注组织层面的特征。我讨论了对组织和智力生产的影响。工作人员利用该组织作为具有特定专业知识的精英群体的身份,作为日常决策的基础,决定哪些外交政策知识将被编入该计划。通过这种方式,组织在知识生产中占据了中心位置。这表明评估学者除了关注个人层面的特征外,还应该关注组织层面的特征。我讨论了对组织和智力生产的影响。工作人员利用该组织作为具有特定专业知识的精英群体的身份,作为日常决策的基础,决定哪些外交政策知识将被编入该计划。通过这种方式,组织在知识生产中占据了中心位置。这表明评估学者除了关注个人层面的特征外,还应该关注组织层面的特征。我讨论了对组织和智力生产的影响。这表明评估学者除了关注个人层面的特征外,还应该关注组织层面的特征。我讨论了对组织和智力生产的影响。这表明评估学者除了关注个人层面的特征外,还应该关注组织层面的特征。我讨论了对组织和智力生产的影响。
更新日期:2020-08-26
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