Awardee: | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY |
Doing Business As Name: | Northwestern University |
PD/PI: |
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Award Date: | 09/14/2012 |
Estimated Total Award Amount: | $ 346,367 |
Funds Obligated to Date: |
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346,367
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Award Start Date: | 01/01/2013 |
Award Expiration Date: | 12/31/2015 |
Transaction Type: | Grant |
Agency: | NSF |
Awarding Agency Code: | 4900 |
Funding Agency Code: | 4900 |
CFDA Number: | 47.080 |
Primary Program Source: | 490100 NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
Award Title or Description: | Collaborative Research: SCC-SBE: Research Coordination Network on Leveraging Computational Social Science for Understanding Virtual Organizations |
Federal Award ID Number: | 1244747 |
DUNS ID: | 160079455 |
Parent DUNS ID: | 005436803 |
Program: | VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS |
Program Officer: |
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Awardee Location | |
Street: | 1801 Maple Ave. |
City: | EVANSTON |
State: | IL |
ZIP: | 60201-3149 |
County: | Evanston |
Country: | US |
Awardee Cong. District: | 09 |
Primary Place of Performance | |
Organization Name: | Northwestern University |
Street: | 2240 Campus Drive |
City: | Evanston |
State: | IL |
ZIP: | 60208-3540 |
County: | Evanston |
Country: | US |
Cong. District: | 09 |
Abstract at Time of Award | |
Rapid advances in digitally-enabled communications have given rise to a new organizational form - the virtual organization. Because of their immense capacity for flexibility and their ability to draw on diverse expertise across time and space, the large-scale, cross-boundary collaborations enabled by virtual organizations have the potential to solve some of the grand challenges of today's world - those in environmental sustainability, climate change, disaster response, education, and health care. However, research on understanding and enabling virtual organizations requires the deep expertise of many disciplines including computer science, information and decision sciences, communication, management, and psychology, to name a few. Therefore an integral next step is to invest in community and infrastructure development that better fuses the "social" and the "technical" cores of this research enterprise. This need for greater socio-technical integration is at the heart of a new paradigm which we call computational social science enabled virtual organizational research (CSSeVOR). |
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