Steering the Direction of Research through Organizational Identity Formation

Autor/inn/en	Franssen, Thomas; Borlaug, Siri Brorstad; Hylmö, Anders
Titel	Steering the Direction of Research through Organizational Identity Formation
Quelle	In: Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 61 (2023) 4, S.495-519 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Franssen, Thomas) ORCID (Borlaug, Siri Brorstad) ORCID (Hylmö, Anders)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0026-4695
DOI	10.1007/s11024-023-09494-z
Schlagwörter	Research Universities; Performance Based Assessment; Financial Support; Institutional Mission; Institutional Characteristics; Case Studies; Biomedicine; Institutional Evaluation; Medical Research; Criticism; Resource Allocation; Bibliometrics; Foreign Countries; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Forschungseinrichtung; Leistungsermittlung; Finanzielle Förderung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Biomedizin; Kritik; Ressourcenallokation; Bibliometrie; Ausland; Niederlande
Abstract	Public research organizations respond to external pressures from national research evaluation systems, performance-based funding systems and university rankings by translating them into internal goals, rules and regulations and by developing organizational identities, profiles and missions. Organizational responses have primarily been studied at the central organizational level, and research on the steering of research has primarily focused on the impacts of performance-based funding systems. However, research evaluation exercises may also have a formative impact, especially below the central organizational level. This paper uses a case study of a research unit of a biomedical research school in the Netherlands to explore the organizational response to a relatively critical external assessment report. It shows that the participation in the Dutch research evaluation cycle legitimated the formation of a new organizational identity for the research unit, which functions as a frame that suggests to staff members a new interpretation of the type of research that is at the core of what the research unit does. We identify three additional steering mechanisms that support the enactment of the organizational identity: steering by resource allocation, by suggesting and by re-organizing. We, furthermore, explore the epistemic effects -- the direction and conduct of research -- of the organizational response, through interview data in combination with a bibliometric analysis. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01