UNESCO and Social Science Research

Angell, Robert C.

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“…IGOs frequently organize conferences, forums, and meetings that draw participants from member countries (Crane, 1971), enabling interactions among members for social and task-oriented activities. The Department of Social Sciences at UNESCO brings together social science scholars from around the world to increase international understanding (Angell, 1950). Repeated interactions through such events develop embedded ties that lead to trust, fine-grained information exchange, and joint problem-solving efforts (Rosenkopf, Metiu, and George, 2001), which are useful for innovation as they facilitate adapting knowledge to novel problems (Miller, Pentland, and Choi, 2012) and new tasks (Lewis, Lange, and Gillis, 2005).…”

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The Role of Intergovernmental Organizations in Cross-border Knowledge Transfer and Innovation

Jandhyala

Phene

2015

Administrative Science Quarterly

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Nonmarket organizations play a supportive role in knowledge transfer and innovation domestically, but national differences between them can create barriers to cross-border knowledge transfer. Internationally oriented nonmarket organizations-ones that develop international ties and partnerships-may generate commonalities among participants and promote a set of similar rules, expectations, and norms across different countries and thus may be effective in supporting cross-border knowledge transfer and innovation. We focus on one such kind of organization, the intergovernmental organization (IGO), as a country's connectedness to learning-oriented IGOs may have a positive influence on national innovation. Using an illustrative caselet on one IGO, the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, and an empirical analysis spanning 83 countries from 1996 to 2006, we find that the extent of connectedness to the learning-oriented IGO network enables national innovation. But countries differ in the extent to which they can leverage external knowledge for innovation because of the variation in relationships among local constituencies.Organizational scholars have long argued that nonmarket organizations, such as regulatory agencies, business associations, schools, cooperatives, and government-supported institutions, can play an important, supportive role in knowledge contexts. These organizations can facilitate regulatory support for knowledge transfer and generate reliable channels for collective learning (Lynn,

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The Role of Intergovernmental Organizations in Cross-border Knowledge Transfer and Innovation

Jandhyala

Phene

2015

Administrative Science Quarterly

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“…in certain circumstances, when … prejudices or stereotypes are due to lack of direct contact with individuals belonging to another national or ethnic group, substantial results in the modification of attitudes can be secured by education (UNESCO 1957, p. 17, see also Cantril 1948, Angell 1950, Laves 1951, Conil-Lacoste 1968). …”

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Strangers and sojourners: who were Miss V and Miss W?

Limond

2008

African Identities

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This piece concerns a largely forgotten ethnographic experiment conducted under the auspices of the United National Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and its Tensions Affecting International Understanding Project. In the early 1950s, with UNESCO's backing, two young African teachers spent a short time living and working in a small English town. What follows is an attempt to locate them. That is to say, it sets out variously to establish who Miss V and Miss W might have been and to examine the situation in which they found themselves. The hope was that children from a monocultural background in rural England brought into contact with African teachers would have many of their prejudices dispelled. To some extent, in its own terms, the project was successful but the resulting book rendered the women anonymous and voiceless and exoticzed them in the process. Thus the piece attempts, largely using the means of textual inference, to reconstruct what can be known of their experiences, and speculates on the effect(s) that participation in the experiment might have had on them. It thus gives again both voice and identity to Miss V and Miss W, so that, like Sojourner Truth, they can come up again.

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“…It thus seems all the more remarkable, looking back at the UNESCO years, to see how much was actually accomplished in the way of research under the SSD's rubric of the Tensions Project (Angell, 1950;Jacobson, 1973;Klineberg, 1950Klineberg, , 1956. Much of this productivity is attributable to Otto Klineberg (SPSSI President, 1942-1943 who was Director of the Tensions Project (1948)(1949) and the Director of UNESCO's Division of Applied Social Sciences (1953)(1954)(1955) within the SSD.…”

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“Cautious Courage”: SPSSI's Connections and Reconnections at the United Nations

Cherry

Ellingwood

Castillo

2011

Journal of Social Issues

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The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) has had official connections to the United Nations (UN) at two separate points in its history. In the period right after World War Two (1946–1960), SPSSI leaders were involved in the building of a global social science network through the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Otto Klineberg was heavily involved in creating connections between UNESCO and SPSSI. Changes at UNESCO as well as in academic research culture, combined with continued Cold War politics, minimized SPSSI's involvement at the UN throughout the 1960s and 1970s. By the mid‐1980s, NGOs were increasingly a significant force in the UN through the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). SPSSI has had NGO status since 1987 and was awarded consultative status in 1991, allowing the Society greater input at the UN. Since that time, SPSSI has continued to bring a research focus to a range of projects at the UN aimed at improving global well‐being.

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UNESCO and Social Science Research

Cited by 12 publications

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The Role of Intergovernmental Organizations in Cross-border Knowledge Transfer and Innovation

The Role of Intergovernmental Organizations in Cross-border Knowledge Transfer and Innovation

Strangers and sojourners: who were Miss V and Miss W?

“Cautious Courage”: SPSSI's Connections and Reconnections at the United Nations

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