Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation (2010)
Whitley, Richard D. (Editor)
Gläser, Jochen (Editor)
Engwall, Lars (Editor)
Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2010
Language: English
Physical Details: xv + 387 pp.; ill.; index
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.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Review Rogers, Juan D. (2013) Review of "Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation". Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy (pp. 127-129).
Chapter Whitley, Richard (2010) The Impact of Governance Changes on Authority and Innovation in Public Science Systems. In: Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation (p. 3).
Chapter Martin, Ben; Whitley, Richard (2010) A Case of Regulatory Capture?. In: Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation (p. 51).
Chapter Benninghoff, Martin; Braun, Dietmar (2010) Research Funding, Authority Relations, and Scientific Production in Switzerland. In: Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation (p. 81).
Chapter Kneller, Robert (2010) The Changing Governance of Japanese Public Science. In: Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation (p. 110).
Chapter Gläser, Jochen; Lange, Stefan; Laudel, Grit; Schimank, Uwe (2010) Informed Authority? The Limited Use of Research Evaluation Systems for Managerial Control in Universities. In: Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation (p. 148).
Chapter Louvel, Severine (2010) Changing Authority Relations within French Academic Research Units since the 1960s: From Patronage to Partnership. In: Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation (p. 184).
Chapter Meier, Frank; Schimank, Uwe (2010) Mission Now Possible: Profile Building and Leadership in German Universities. In: Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation (p. 211).
Chapter Morris, Norma (2010) Authority Relations as Condition for, and Outcome of, Shifts in Governance: The Limited Impact of the UK Research Assessment Exercise on the Biosciences. In: Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation (p. 239).
Chapter Leišytė, Liudvika; Enders, Jürgen; Boer, Harry de (2010) Mediating Problem Choice: Academic Researchers' Responses to Changes in their Institutional Environment. In: Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation (p. 266).
Chapter Gläser, Jochen; Lange, Stefan; Laudel, Grit; Schimank, Uwe (2010) The Limits of Universality: How Field-Specific Epistemic Conditions Affect Authority Relations and Their Consequences. In: Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation (p. 291).
Chapter Engwall, Lars; Kipping, Matthias; Üsdiken, Behlül (2010) Public Science Systems, Higher Education, and the Trajectory of Academic Disciplines: Business Studies in the United States and Europe. In: Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation (p. 325).
Chapter Gläser, Jochen (2010) From Governance to Authority Relations?. In: Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation (p. 357).
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