Design and the management of multi-institutional research collaborations: Theoretical implications from two case studies
Design and the management of multi-institutional research collaborations: Theoretical implications from two case studies
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DOI：
10.1016/j.respol.2006.05.003
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发表时间：
2006-09
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7.2
通讯作者：
Elizabeth A. Corley;P. Boardman;Barry Bozeman
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作者：
Elizabeth A. Corley;P. Boardman;Barry Bozeman
在过去的三十年里，美国科学和技术资助机构越来越多地支持大规模的、集中的、基于整笔赠款的研究项目，这些项目往往跨越多个学科和机构。这一趋势的发展速度如此之快，以至于专注于理解这些新的协作模式的管理的研究在很大程度上没有跟上步伐。我们使用两个大规模的多学科合作的案例研究，制定一个制度框架，阐明（a）在合作中所代表的学科的认知规范，（B）这些合作的组织结构，（c）机构间的合作成功之间的关系。我们的案例研究分析的结果表明，大规模，多学科，跨机构的合作需要一个相对较高的发展水平，无论是（1）在合作所涉及的学科的认识发展或（2）的组织结构的合作。我们认为，域（即认知或组织），提供了最高水平的制度化是一个组织的“规则”的合作。
Over the past three decades, U.S. science and technology funding agencies have increasingly supported large-scale, centralized, block grant-based research projects that often span multiple disciplines and institutions. This trend has developed at such a rate that research focused on understanding the management of these new collaborative models has largely not kept pace. We use two case studies of large-scale, multi-disciplinary collaborations to develop an institutional framework that illuminates the relationships among (a) the epistemic norms of the disciplines represented in the collaboration, (b) the organizational structure of these collaborations, and (c) the inter-institutional collaboration success. The results of our case study analysis demonstrate that large-scale, multi-discipline, inter-institutional collaborations need a relatively high level of development in either (1) the epistemic development of the disciplines involved in the collaboration or (2) the organizational structure of the collaboration. We argue that the domain (i.e. epistemic or organizational) that provides the highest level of institutionalization is the one that organizes the “rules” of the collaboration.