Curating Collective Wisdom: Exploring New Infrastructures for Knowledge Synthesis

Abstract

This symposium explores a new blueprint of knowledge synthesis in business and management. The cumulation of scientific knowledge is difficult to implement in the absence of a convergent and integrated knowledge system. The current technologies, outlets, and incentives of business and management scholarship emphasize discipline-based, reductionist research, and are relatively incapable of solving complex social problems concerning management. As an unintended consequence, the universe of data, knowledge, and communities is becoming exceedingly fragmented. This symposium gathers editors of elite review journals and elite journals with review issues, whose missions emphasize knowledge synthesis, to explore what new technologies and infrastructures are needed to accumulate fragmented knowledge scholarship into timely, widely accessible, and actionable collective wisdom.