A Trend of “Cognitive Approach” in Social Sciences: In Association with Policy Implementation

Abstract

Last a few decades a new trend of “cognitive approach”, which focuses on human and human group's cognitive behavior and dynamics of their interaction, has been emerging in social sciences, especially in organization and innovation studies. This study try to review how new theoretical fields, such as economics of information, economics of organization, new institutional theory of economics, organizational knowledge creation theory, knowledge transfer theory and cognitive coordination theory, has evolved. Based on the review, we abstract problems of such cognitive approaches and discuss possibilities of cognitive sciences' contribution to the problems.