TY - CHAP

T1 - Toward an organizational cognitive neuroscience

AU - Butler, Michael

AU - Senior, Carl

PY - 2007/11/1

Y1 - 2007/11/1

N2 - The research strategy adopted in this article is to connect two different discourses and the ideas, methods, and outputs they contain—these being cognitive neuroscience and organization theory. The main contribution of the article is to present an agenda for the field of organizational cognitive neuroscience. We define what is meant by the term, outline its background, identify why it is important as a new research direction, and then conclude by drawing on Damasio's levels of life regulation as a framework to bind together existing organizational cognitive neuroscience. The article begins by setting the wider debate behind the emergence of organizational cognitive neuroscience by revisiting the nature–nurture debate and uses Pinker to demonstrate that the connection between mind and matter has not been resolved, that new directions are opening up to better understand human nature, and that organizational cognitive neuroscience is one fruitful path forward.

AB - The research strategy adopted in this article is to connect two different discourses and the ideas, methods, and outputs they contain—these being cognitive neuroscience and organization theory. The main contribution of the article is to present an agenda for the field of organizational cognitive neuroscience. We define what is meant by the term, outline its background, identify why it is important as a new research direction, and then conclude by drawing on Damasio's levels of life regulation as a framework to bind together existing organizational cognitive neuroscience. The article begins by setting the wider debate behind the emergence of organizational cognitive neuroscience by revisiting the nature–nurture debate and uses Pinker to demonstrate that the connection between mind and matter has not been resolved, that new directions are opening up to better understand human nature, and that organizational cognitive neuroscience is one fruitful path forward.

KW - social cognitive neuroscience

KW - cognitive neuroscience

KW - social psychology

KW - neuroscience

KW - brain

KW - social interaction

KW - SCN rubric undergo interrogation

KW - motivational factors

KW - social factors

KW - behavior

KW - experience

U2 - 10.1196/annals.1412.009

DO - 10.1196/annals.1412.009

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-1-57331-698-9

T3 - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

SP - 1

EP - 17

BT - Social cognitive neuroscience of organisations

A2 - Butler, Michael

A2 - Senior, Carl

PB - Blackwell

CY - United Kingdom

ER -