Center on Organizational Innovation
Encyclopedia
The Center on Organizational Innovation (COI) is a research center at Columbia University
's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
. The center, established in 2000 and directed by sociologist David Stark
, promotes research in the areas of organizational studies
, science and technology studies
and economic sociology
, with an emphasis on innovation
and reflexivity
.
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy is the research arm of the social sciences at Columbia University. ISERP works to produce pioneering social science research and to shape public policy by integrating knowledge and methods across the social scientific disciplines...
. The center, established in 2000 and directed by sociologist David Stark
David C. Stark
David C. Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University where he serves as chair of the sociology department and directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. He is an External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe Institute.-Biography:He received a B.A....
, promotes research in the areas of organizational studies
Organizational studies
Organizational studies, sometimes known as organizational science, encompass the systematic study and careful application of knowledge about how people act within organizations...
, science and technology studies
Science and technology studies
Science, technology and society is the study of how social, political, and cultural values affect scientific research and technological innovation, and how these, in turn, affect society, politics and culture...
and economic sociology
Economic sociology
Economic sociology studies both the social effects and the social causes of various economic phenomena. The field can be broadly divided into a classical period and a contemporary one. The classical period was concerned particularly with modernity and its constituent aspects...
, with an emphasis on innovation
Innovation
Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society...
and reflexivity
Reflexivity (social theory)
Reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect. A reflexive relationship is bidirectional with both the cause and the effect affecting one another in a situation that does not render both functions causes and effects...
.