Exploring Meeting Science

Jessie Lynn Olien; Steven G. Rogelberg; Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock; Joseph A. Allen

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107589735.002

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Print publication year: 2015
Online publication date: August 2015

2 - Exploring Meeting Science

from Part I - Introduction

By Jessie Lynn Olien, Steven G. Rogelberg, Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock, Joseph A. Allen

Edited by Joseph A. Allen, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Steven G. Rogelberg, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107589735.002
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As a relatively new field of scientific study, meeting science continues to generate many questions. For example, what is meeting science? Who are meeting scientists? What distinguishes meeting science from other related fields of inquiry? The purpose of this chapter is to address these commonly asked questions. In this chapter we review what meeting science is, discuss the nascent nature of the field, describe who meeting scientists are and what they do, and disentangle the relationship between meeting science and team science. To close, we outline directions for future research on meetings.

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