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gained in the context of management research is applied to research institutions.
Karl H. Müller: How new things emerge, pp. 87–128.
The question of the emergence of the ‘new’ is not raised very often as an explicit
problem. The article has two primary aims. Firstly, the notion of the new will
be defined in terms of normal science and various aspects of ‘novelty’ will be
introduced. In a second step four contexts of analyses are proposed. For each of
these contexts sketches of explanations and models are described. This should
allow a common view on the fields of knowledge, sciences, technology, and all
other domains which produce new ensembles permanently
Christian Fleck: How new things do not emerge. The founding of the Institute of
Advanced Study in Vienna by ex-Austrians and the Ford-foundation, pp. 129–178.
On the basis of recently discovered sources the author is able to rewrite the
prehistory and early history of the Viennese Institut fuer Hoehere Studien as a
complex story of communications decision-making and revising decisions within
a small group of Austrian emigrees (among them: Friedrich von Hayek, Paul
Lazarsfeld, and Oskar Morgenstern), American foundations, Austrian government
officials and a group of Austrian social scientists profiting from the development.
The Austrians sides in many ways apparently unable to transscend
their own interest of the day produced a series of obstacles and barriers to
establish this new institute. Thus, the massive impact of American money apparently
produced a variety of unintended effects and consequences.
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