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2 - Exploring Meeting Science

Key Questions and Answers

from Part I - Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2015

By
Jessie Lynn Olien ,
Steven G. Rogelberg ,
Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock  and
Joseph A. Allen
Edited by
Joseph A. Allen ,
Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock  and
Steven G. Rogelberg
Joseph A. Allen
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska, Omaha
Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Steven G. Rogelberg
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
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Abstract

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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The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science , pp. 12 - 19
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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