| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 406 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Research in the sociology of organizations,
0733-558X ;
v. 42
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Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 42.
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| Contents |
The impact of institutional reforms on the nature of universities as organisations / Richard Whitley, Jochen Glöser -- Empowerment of French universities by funding and evaluation agencies / Christine Musselin -- Funding individuals' changing organisations : the impact of the ERC on universities / Jakob Edler [and others] -- Where have all the scientists gone? Building research profiles at Dutch universities and its consequences for research / Grit Laudel, Elke Weyer -- Merger mania in science : organizational restructuring and patterns of cooperation in an academic research centre / Julien Barrier -- Institutional conditions and changing research practices in Switzerland / Martin Benninghoff [and others] -- Cold atoms : hot research : high risks, high rewards in five different authority structures / Grit Laudel [and others] -- Highly adaptable but not invulnerable : necessary and facilitating conditions for research in evolutionary developmental biology / Grit Laudel [and others] -- Path dependence and policy steering in the social sciences : the varied impact of international large scale student assessment on the educational sciences in four European countries / Jochen Glöser [and others] -- Where to go for a change : the impact of authority structures in universities and public research institutes on changes of research practices / Jochen Glöser [and others] -- Computer corpus linguistics : an innovation in the humanities / Lars Engwall [and others] -- How do institutional changes affect scientific innovations? The effects of shifts in authority relationships, protected space, and flexibility / Richard Whitley. |
| Summary |
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 science systems. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Organizational sociology.
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Organizational sociology. |
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Organizational change.
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Organizational change. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Whitley, Richard, 1944-
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Glöser, Jochen.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781783506842 |
| ISBN |
9781783506835 (electronic book) |
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1783506830 (electronic book) |
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9781783506842 |
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1783506849 |
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