Organisational Transformation and Scientific Change : the impact of institutional restructuring on universities and intellectual innovation.

The first part of this book deals with the transformation of universities as strategic organisational actors - in some cases creating them as such - while the second shows how governance and authority shifts are affecting the kinds of research goals being pursued by academics in different public sci...

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Main Author: Whitley, Richard
Other Authors: Gläser, Jochen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bradford : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014.
Series:Research in the sociology of organizations.
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505 0 |a Front cover; organizational transformation and scientific change: the impact of institutional restructuring on universities and intellectual innovation; copyright page; contents; list of contributors; advisory board; editors' introduction; institutional change and the transformation of universities as strategic actors; the impact of institutional reforms on the nature of universities as organisations; introduction; the nature of firms in market economies; varieties of pre-reform universities and characteristics of firms; the impact of institutional reforms on university autonomy. 
505 8 |a The impact of institutional reforms on university organisational capabilitiesconcluding remarks; references; empowerment of french universities by funding and evaluation agencies; introduction; organizational change and transformation of university governance; french higher education reforms: the lopri (2006) and the lru (2007); external peer review enhances centralization and coordination within universities; external peer review allows less egalitarian allocation of resources and restructurations. 
505 8 |a A rather large appropriation of the norms and expectations developed by the evaluation agency and the research councilconclusion; notes; references; funding individuals -- changing organisations: the impact of the erc on universities; introduction; conceptual model; methodology; empirical findings on impact patterns; discussion; conclusion: the irony of organisational actorhood and erc success; notes; acknowledgements; references; where have all the scientists gone? building research profiles at dutch universities and its consequences for research; introduction. 
505 8 |a Theoretical framework and methodologythe evolution of dutch state expectations concerning university research profiles; profile building at dutch universities; the impact of profile building on research fields; conclusions: causes and consequences of profile building; note; acknowledgements; references; merger mania in science: organizational restructuring and patterns of cooperation in an academic research centre; introduction; beyond myth and ceremony: how formal structures may matter in academic settings; data and methods; background; unfolding the creation of the eei. 
505 8 |a External and intra-organizational implications of the mergerdiscussion and conclusion; notes; acknowledgements; references; contradictory consequences of institutional changes on intellectual innovation in the public sciences; institutional conditions and changing research practices in switzerland; introduction; conceptual considerations; the swiss research system; changing research practices in four scientific domains in switzerland; the influence of institutional conditions on changing research practices in the swiss research system; conclusions; notes; references. 
505 8 |a Cold atoms -- hot research: high risks, high rewards in five different authority structures. 
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