Title Reconfiguring knowledge production : changing authority relationships in the sciences and their consequences for intellectual innovation / edited by Richard Whitley, Jochen Gläser, Lars Engwall

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 387 pages) : illustrations 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 Employers5 Informed Authority? The Limited Use of Research Evaluation Systems for Managerial Control in Universities -- 6 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 Biosciences9 Mediating Problem Choice: Academic Researchersâ€? Responses to Changes in their Institutional Environment -- 10 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Research -- Government policy Research -- Government policy -- Case studies Science and state. Science and state -- Case studies Technology and state. SCIENCE -- Research & Methodology. Technology and state. Research -- Government policy. Science and state. Genre/Form Electronic books Case studies. Form Electronic book Author Whitley, Richard, 1944- Gläser, Jochen. Engwall, Lars. ISBN 9780191591600 0191591602 9780199590193 0199590192 0191723444 9780191723445

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