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Reconfiguring knowledge production : changing authority relationships in the sciences and their consequences for intellectual innovation / edited by Richard Whitley, Jochen Glaser, Lars Engwall.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Research--Government policy.
- Research.
- Research--Government policy--Case studies.
- Science and state.
- Science and state--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (404 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Governance of the public sciences has changed since World War II, especially the funding structures, autonomy, and accountability of public research organisations, and the extent to which research is steered towards societal usefulness. This book examines these developments in several countries.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 Reconfiguring the Public Sciences: The Impact of Governance Changes on Authority and Innovation in Public Science Systems; I: Reorganizing Academia: Delegating Authority while Increasing Accountability in Universities; 2 The UK Research Assessment Exercise: A Case of Regulatory Capture?; 3 Research Funding, Authority Relations, and Scientific Production in Switzerland; 4 The Changing Governance of Japanese Public Science; II: Reorganizing Research Organizations: Shifting Authority Relations between Teams, Departments, and Employers
- 5 Informed Authority? The Limited Use of Research Evaluation Systems for Managerial Control in Universities6 Changing Authority Relations within French Academic Research Units since the 1960s: From Patronage to Partnership; 7 Mission Now Possible: Profile Building and Leadership in German Universities; III: Reorganizing Scientific Fields: Changing Authority Relations and Intellectual Innovations; 8 Authority Relations as Condition for, and Outcome of, Shifts in Governance: The Limited Impact of the UK Research Assessment Exercise on the Biosciences
- 9 Mediating Problem Choice: Academic Researchers' Responses to Changes in their Institutional Environment10 The Limits of Universality: How Field-Specific Epistemic Conditions Affect Authority Relations and their Consequences; 11 Public Science Systems, Higher Education, and the Trajectory of Academic Disciplines: Business Studies in the United States and Europe; Concluding Reflections; 12 From Governance to Authority Relations?; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-159160-2
- 9786612768309
- 1-282-76830-1
- OCLC:
- 922970339
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