Special issues as field-configuring events
I've been noodling around with the idea of modeling knowledge processes at the level of the field for a few years now. It didnt start this way; this is something I started a couple weeks before I started the PhD at McGill, as a way to start to make sense of the community I was joining- an exploration of the "A" management journals in the 21st century. As the core network data has grown to encompass all ( ALL you say? how dare you. ) of management research since its roots in the 1930s, it has become impossible to resist further examination. Kuhn's notions of normal/revolutionary science never quite fit what I saw out "in the field" or in this data, and I was always looking for alternate analytic metaphors to describe our field of management or whatever you want to call the soup of social science and/or economics flavored sub-disciplines organized under the various B-schools of the world. I dont want to bore everyone with the details (also maybe I want to...