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RECONFIGURING KNOWLEDGE PROD

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-19-959019-3
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Erscheinungstermin: 22.07.2010
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The governance of the public sciences has profoundly changed since the Second World War, especially with regard to funding structures, the autonomy, and accountability of public research organizations and universities, and the extent to which research is steered towards societal usefulness. Going beyond previous analyses of these changes in science studies, science policy, and higher education studies, this book presents and applies a novel approach that provides an
integrated assessment of changes in public science systems and their impact on scientific innovation.

Its basic assumptions are (i) that all changes in public science systems (PSS) affect authority relations - the interests and action capabilities of authoritative agencies in science - and (ii) that the authority relations concerning the selection of goals and approaches in research as well as the integration of research results are the channel through which changes in PSS affect the production of scientific knowledge and particularly scientific innovation. This focus on authority relations as
the key interface integrating changes in governance and translating them into changes in the production of scientific knowledge is an important innovation because the effects of governance at the performance level of the science system have been largely neglected by other approaches.

By demonstrating that changes in authority relations are field-specific and have field-specific effects on knowledge production, and that these field-specific authority relations do indeed affect the conditions for intellectual innovation, the perspective explored in this book challenges science policy studies to 'bring work back in' to the study of the organisation and governance of the sciences.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780199590193
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-959019-3
  • Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
  • Erscheinungstermin: 22.07.2010
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2010
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 790 g
  • Seiten: 404
  • Format (B x H x T): 162 x 241 x 31 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Richard Whitley: Introduction: Reconfiguring the Public Sciences: The Impact of Governance Changes on Authority and Innovation in Public Science Systems
Part 1: Reorganising Academia: Delegating Authority while Increasing Accountability in Universities
1: Ben Martin and Richard Whitley: The UK Research Assessment Exercise: A Case of Regulatory Capture?
2: Martin Benninghoff and Dietmar Braun: Research Funding, Authority Relations, and Scientific Production in Switzerland
3: Robert Kneller: The Changing Governance of Japanese Public Science
Part 2: Reorganising Research Organizations: Shifting Authority Relations Between Teams, Departments, and Employers
4: Jochen Gläser, Stefan Lange, Grit Laudel, and Uwe Schimank: Informed Authority? The Limited Use of Research Evaluation Systems for Managerial Control in Universities
5: Séverine Louvel: Changing Authority Relations within French Academic Research Units since the 1960s: From Patronage to Partnership
6: Frank Meier and Uwe Schimank: Mission Now Possible: Profile Building and Leadership in German Universities
Part 3: Reorganizing Scientific Fields: Changing Authority Relations and Intellectual Innovations
7: Norma Morris: Authority Relations as Condition for, and Outcome of, Shifts in Governance: The Limited Impact of the UK Research Assessment Exercise on the Biosciences
8: Liudvika Leisyté, Harry de Boer, and Jürgen Enders: Mediating Problem Choice: Academic Researchers' Responses to Changes in their Institutional Environment
9: Jochen Gläser, Stefan Lange, Grit Laudel, and Uwe Schimank: The Limits of Universality: How Field-specific Epistemic Conditions Affect Authority Relations and their Consequences
10: Lars Engwall, Matthias Kipping, and Behlül Üsdiken: Public Science Systems, Higher Education, and the Trajectory of Academic Disciplines: Business Studies in the United States and Europe
Jochen Gläser: Concluding Reflections: From Governance to Authority Relations?