Leadership in Science & Technology
Posted on November 8, 2011
Just published a new book chapter in this large 2-part volume by SAGE. My chapter is on Leadership in New Media. Here’s a link to the book:
Finally, here’s an outline of the contents (taken from the draft version):
Leadership in Science and Technology Edited by William Sims Bainbridge Leadership in Science and Technology, a 2-volume set within the SAGE Reference Series on Leadership, tackles issues relevant to leadership in the realm of science and technology. Progress in science and technology is a truly global enterprise, and leaders must have not only organizational skills and solid scientific expertise but also a vision to see farther than others do and social skills to join together other creative scientists and engineers to see how their work might contribute to a greater whole. This handbook will have 100 topics arranged under eight headings. Volume 1 will focus on general principles of science and technology leadership, whereas Volume 2 will provide case studies of leadership in science and technology. There are really three related audiences for this handbook. First, students will use it as a reference work, certainly for their school projects and perhaps even to help them think through future careers they themselves might have in science and technology. Second, faculty and social science researchers will draw upon it for ideas, lecture material, literature citations, and other information that will contribute to their work. Third, policy makers and other leaders in science and technology fields will draw upon it for inspiration and practical advice. The general outline of the two volumes is as follows: Volume I: General Principles of Science and Technology Leadership 1. Social-scientific Perspectives on Science and Technology Leadership 2. Key Scientific Concepts about Leading and Innovating in Science and Technology 3. Characteristics of Science and Technology Leaders and their Contexts 4. Strategies, Tactics, and Tools of Science and Technology Leadership Volume II: Case Studies of Leadership in Science and Technology 5. Leadership in Informal Communities of Scientists and Engineers 6. Leadership in Government Projects and Research Initiatives 7. Leadership in Industry Research, Development, and Innovation 8. Leadership in Education and University-Based Research As of December 31, 2009, authors had agreed to write 69 of the projected 100 chapters: 002. Anthropology - Baba, Marietta L. https://www.msu.edu/~mbaba/ 003. Cognitive Science - Rubin, Philip http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/rubinbio.html 007. Philosophy - Kronz, Frederick M. http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~kronz/ 009. Future Studies - Sardar, Ziauddin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziauddin_Sardar 010. Social Psychology - Lovaglia, Michael J. http://www.uiowa.edu/~soc/people/lovaglia.html 011. Sociology - Bainbridge, William Sims http://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=wbainbri&org=IIS&from_org=IIS 012. Diffusion of Innovation - Gluesing, Julia Catherine http://www.ime.wayne.edu/bio.php?id=857 013. National Pre-eminence - Greenfeld, Liah http://www.bu.edu/uni/faculty/profiles/greenfeld.html 014. Human Subjects Research - Craig-Henderson, Kellina M. http://www.gs.howard.edu/gradprograms/social_psychology1.htm 015. Research Groups - Hackett, Edward J. & Parker, John N. https://sec.was.asu.edu/directory/person/33115 016. Mechanizing Ethics - Wallach, Wendell http://www.yale.edu/bioethics/studygrps_techno.shtml 017. Sustainability - Fischer, Douglas H. http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~dfisher/ 018. Technological Convergence - Roco, Mihail C. http://www.nsf.gov/eng/staff/mroco.jsp 019. Standards of Research and Misconduct - Braxton, John http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x4611.xml 020. Creative Destruction - McKnight, Lee W. & Kuehn, Andreas http://ischool.syr.edu/facstaff/member.aspx?id=355 021. Moral Exemplars - Huff, Charles William & Hughes, Kelly S. http://www.stolaf.edu/people/huff/ 022. Controversies - Martin, Brian http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/ 023. Design Innovation - Maher, Mary Lou http://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=mmaher&org=NSF 024. International Cooperation Suskin, Mark http://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=msuskin 025. Political Economy - Taylor, Mark Zachary http://www.inta.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/listing.php?uID=36 027. Fallibility and Authority - Roush, Sherrilyn http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/roush 029. Human Dimensions of Biology - Maienschein, Jane http://sols.asu.edu/people/faculty/jmaienschein.php 030. Gender Diversity - Frehill, Lisa http://www.cpst.org/web/site/pages/welcome/Lisa_Bio.html 031. Intellectual Property Rights - Clarkson, Gavin http://www.gavinclarkson.com/ 032. Product Liability - Cantor, Robin http://www.exponent.com/robin_cantor/ 034. Public Attitudes Toward Science and Technology - Inglehart, Ronald http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/faculty/ringlehart.html 035. Urban and Regional Planning - Tonn, Bruce http://isse.utk.edu/staff/tonn.html 036. Science Careers - Hermanowicz, Joseph http://www.uga.edu/soc/people/faculty/hermanowicz_joseph.php 038. Ethics as Constraints and Goals - Gorman, Michael E. http://repo-nt.tcc.virginia.edu/homepage/mg/ 039. Gatekeeping - Harris, Rebecca http://williams.wlu.edu/whoweare/faculty/harrisr.htm 040. Networking - Börner, Katy http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/ 041. Peer Review - Bainbridge, William Sims http://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=wbainbri&org=IIS&from_org=IIS 043. Triple Helix - Etzkowitz, Henry http://www.ebnfez2009.com/assets/speakers/henry%20etzkowitz_biography.pdf 044. Computer Simulation - Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio http://socialcomplexity.gmu.edu/director.php 046. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education - Suter, Larry E. http://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=lsuter&org=EHR&from_org=EHR 047. Virtual Organizations - Lutters, Wayne G. & Winter, Susan http://userpages.umbc.edu/~lutters/ 048. Managing for Innovation - Trott, Paul http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/hrmm/staff/title,22618,en.html 049. Science Policy - Lane, Julia I. & Fealing, Kaye Husbands http://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=jlane&org=NSF 050. Science Journalism - Lewenstein, Bruce V. http://www.comm.cornell.edu/staff/employee/bruce_v_lewenstein.html 053. Open Source Software Development - Scacchi, Walt http://www.isr.uci.edu/~wscacchi/ 054. Social Science Data Archives - Finke, Roger & Bader, Christopher D. & Whitehead, Andrew http://www.sociology.psu.edu/people/faculty/finke.shtml 055. Quantum Theory - Frappier, Melanie http://www.ukings.ca/kings_3635_11587.html 056. Sociobiology - Segerstrale, Ullica http://www.iit.edu/csl/ss/faculty/segerstrale_ullica.shtml 058. Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) - Harrison, Albert A http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Harrison/ 059. Transhumanism - Hughes, James J. http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/hughes/ 060. Human Relations Area Files - Ember, Carol http://www.yale.edu/hraf/ 061. The Psychoanalytic Movement - Bainbridge, William Sims http://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=wbainbri&org=IIS&from_org=IIS 062. High Resolution Computer Tomography Virtual Organization - Tapia, Andrea H. & Ocker, Rosalie & Rosson, Mary Beth & Ryan, Timothy & Blodgett, Bridgett http://andreatapia.net/ 063. The Protein Data Bank - Berman, Helen M. http://rutchem.rutgers.edu/content_dynamic/faculty/helen_m_berman.shtml 065. Digital Library Initiative - Lesk, Michael http://www.lesk.com/mlesk/ 066. Information Technology Research - Kiesler, Sara http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kiesler/ 067. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research - Jacobs, Clifford A. http://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_list.jsp?orgId=126&subDiv=y 068. National Nanotechnology Initiative - Roco, Mihail C. http://www.nsf.gov/eng/staff/mroco.jsp 070. German V-2 Rocket Project - Bainbridge, William Sims http://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=wbainbri&org=IIS&from_org=IIS 071. Apollo Project - Launius, Roger D. http://www.si.edu/ofg/Staffhp/launiusr.htm 077. Polar Research - Korsmo, Fae L. http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/staff/korsmo.jsp 078. The Mars Exploration Rover Mission - Vertesi, Janet http://janet.vertesi.com 080. Vaccination - Stein, Richard A. http://www.medpedia.com/users/226 081. Geographic Information Systems - Goodchild, Michael http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~good/ 084. Services Science - Spohrer, James C. http://www.almaden.ibm.com/coevolution/bio/index.shtml?spohrer 087. Robotics in Japan - Yuh, Junku http://www.hau.ac.kr/english/introduce/profile.htm 088. Engineering Education - Seely, Bruce E. http://www.social.mtu.edu/people/bseely.htm 089. Chicago School of Sociology - Papachristos, Andrew V http://www.umass.edu/sociol/faculty_staff/papachristos.html 091. AAAS Education Programs - Chubin, Daryl E. http://www.aaas.org/ScienceTalk/chubin.shtml 092. Biology Postsecondary Education - Boylan, Myles http://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=mboylan 093. Internet - Strawn, George O. http://www.nsf.gov/oirm/cio.jsp 096. Harvard Department of Social Relations - Bainbridge, William Sims http://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=wbainbri&org=IIS&from_org=IIS 098. The Open University (UK) - Bissell, Chris http://technology.open.ac.uk/tel/people/bissell/ 100. The "New Math" - Raimi, Ralph A. http://www.math.rochester.edu/people/faculty/rarm/ Biosketch of the Editor: William Sims Bainbridge is the author of 20 books and about 200 articles in the areas of sociology of technology, social movements, and research methodologies. His first book, based on his 1975 Harvard doctoral dissertation in sociology, was a study of leadership in the social movement that produced spaceflight technology. In the early 1980s, he began writing computer programs: (1) to model social interaction using artificial intelligence techniques, (2) to manage and analyze data in ways that existing statistical packages could not do, and (3) as educational tools to let students explore methods of data collection and analysis. A recent example of the first category is his 2006 book, God from the Machine, for which he programmed a neural network multi-agent system to simulate religious cognition and conversion in a large community. An example of the second category is his 1991 book, Goals in Space: American Values and the Future of Technology, which required reducing a correlation matrix based on questionnaire data that was too large for the available commercial software, using novel clustering algorithms. Examples of the third category include two instructional packages combining a textbook with a suite of programs: Survey Research: A Computer-Assisted Introduction (1989) and Social Research Methods and Statistics (1992). After twenty years teaching in major universities, for the last seventeen years he has served as a program officer managing review of grant proposals in the social science and computer science directorates of the National Science Foundation. His current NSF concentration is in Human-Centered Computing, which harmonizes with his recent independent research and editing in the new field of online virtual worlds. His cover-featured article in the July 27, 2007 issue of Science explained the scientific potential of these virtual communities and Internet-based collaboration environments, and he recently began holding NSF grant proposal review panels on a virtual “island” in Second Life. His book about World of Warcraft is about to be published by MIT Press. After organizing the first large scientific meeting inside World of Warcraft in May 2008, in cooperation with Science, he edited a book growing out of the proceedings, Online Worlds, about to be published by Springer. His small textbook, Online Multiplayer Games, is about to be published by Morgan and Claypool, and he has just completed a new book manuscript, The Virtual Future, on how virtual worlds depict advanced science and technology. He has extensive experience editing publications on the societal implications of nanotechnology, converging technologies, and human-computer interaction. In addition to special issues of journals and the forthcoming book Online Worlds, he has edited or co-edited: 2001 Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer. (Mihail C. Roco and WSB). Online at http://www.wtec.org/loyola/nano/societalimpact/nanosi.pdf 2003 Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer. (Mihail C. Roco and WSB). Online at http://www.wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/ 2004 Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. Great Barrington, Massachusetts: Berkshire. 2006 Progress in Convergence: Technologies for Human Wellbeing. New York: New York Academy of Sciences. (WSB and Mihail C. Roco). 2006 Nanotechnology: Societal Implications--Maximizing Benefit for Humanity. Berlin: Springer. (Mihail C. Roco and WSB). Online at http://www.nano.gov/nni_societal_implications.pdf 2006 Nanotechnology: Societal Implications--Individual Perspectives. Berlin: Springer. (Mihail C. Roco and WSB). Online at http://www.wtec.org/SocietalImplications/2/si2vii_report.pdf 2006 Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies in Society. Berlin: Springer. (WSB and Mihail C. Roco).