Unique Challenges and Opportunities for Business Schools in Pursuing Federal Research Grants

商学院在寻求联邦研究资助方面的独特挑战和机遇

• 批准号: 1545303
• 负责人: Todd Maurer
• 金额: $ 4.98万
• 依托单位: Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-15 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1545303&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Unique; Challenges; Opportunities; Business; Schools

Non-technical Description:Despite having many strengths and unique assets that create the strong potential for outstanding NSF-funded research, many business schools also face unique challenges that impede the pursuit and acquisition of research grants to support scholarship as is common in other disciplines. Therefore, both NSF and many business schools may be missing outstanding funded research projects because of these dynamics. To the extent that business schools could become more oriented toward grant funding in the future, the present workshop will be timely and helpful for both NSF and business schools. More importantly, if research funds can be leveraged further to bring stronger research to market, this is valuable to all constituents and stakeholders that could benefit from greater insights into issues that affect well-being of individuals, competitiveness of the workforce, innovativeness of research, partnerships between academia and industry, and increased economic competitiveness--all concerns of both business schools and NSF. Greater insight into, awareness of and ultimately better alignment of high value research resources at a national level could have transformative effects across the United States business school research markets in which NSF could play an increasingly key role as a sponsor and partner in the coming decades.Technical Description:The objective of the workshop is to conduct a needs assessment involving the unique challenges and opportunities that business schools specifically face in applying for and administering federal research grants. The workshop attendees will be sampled from college leadership at research-oriented colleges of business in the United States. These leaders will discuss such issues as the barriers that prevent business faculty from pursuing research proposals and the challenges colleges of business face in supporting the acquisition and administration of grants; the unique strengths and assets that business schools possess that make them very competitive for doing outstanding research and for obtaining funding for that work; possible strategies and best practices to enhance and leverage opportunities for pursuing grants, while minimizing the challenges; and ideas for future business school-NSF coordination, communication and initiatives to enhance funded research activity that would benefit all relevant stakeholders. A white paper will document this workshop and will be disseminated. This will make a unique contribution because the match between business school research orientations and values important to NSF is potentially high: Business school research combines science and knowledge from many disciplines, including mathematics, economics, psychology, philosophy, sociology and others while applying increasingly rigorous methods and standards in research. In addition, this research is conducted within a profession that values practical relevance to business and society. Thus, business school research reflects high value on intellectual merit, the potential for multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary research, as well as value on broader impacts or contributing to the achievement of societally relevant outcomes. Further, human capital market dynamics may result in top scholars from various disciplines being attracted to business schools resulting very active and influential researchers doing business-related research. Yet, despite potential for outstanding NSF-funded research, many business schools wrestle with unique challenges in scholarship, such as an emphasis on journal lists to evaluate research which may present difficulties for pursuing interdisciplinary research as well as a culture that does not promote the pursuit of research grants to support scholarship as is common in other disciplines.

非技术描述：尽管有许多优势和独特的资产，创造了优秀的NSF资助的研究的强大潜力，许多商学院也面临着独特的挑战，阻碍了追求和获得研究赠款，以支持奖学金是常见的其他学科。因此，由于这些动态，NSF和许多商学院可能会错过优秀的资助研究项目。在某种程度上，商学院可以成为更倾向于赠款资金在未来，目前的研讨会将是及时的和有益的NSF和商学院。更重要的是，如果研究资金可以进一步利用，将更强大的研究推向市场，这对所有的选民和利益相关者都是有价值的，他们可以从对影响个人福祉的问题的更深入的见解中受益，劳动力的竞争力，研究的创新性，学术界和工业界之间的伙伴关系，以及提高经济竞争力-所有这些都是商学院和NSF关注的问题。更深入地了解，认识到，并最终更好地调整高价值的研究资源在国家一级可能有变革性的影响，在整个美国商学院的研究市场，NSF可以发挥越来越重要的作用，在未来几十年的赞助商和合作伙伴。技术说明：研讨会的目的是进行需求评估，涉及独特的挑战和机遇，商学院特别面临申请和管理联邦研究赠款。研讨会的与会者将从美国研究型商学院的领导层中抽取样本。 这些领导人将讨论这些问题，如阻碍商学院从事研究提案的障碍，以及商学院在支持赠款的获得和管理方面面临的挑战;商学院拥有的独特优势和资产，使它们在进行杰出研究和获得资金方面非常具有竞争力;可能的战略和最佳做法，以加强和利用机会，争取赠款，同时尽量减少挑战;和未来的商学院，NSF协调，沟通和倡议，以加强资助的研究活动，将有利于所有相关利益相关者的想法。一份白色文件将记录本次研讨会并予以分发。这将做出独特的贡献，因为商学院的研究方向和价值观之间的匹配对NSF很重要，可能很高：商学院的研究结合了许多学科的科学和知识，包括数学，经济学，心理学，哲学，社会学等，同时在研究中应用越来越严格的方法和标准。 此外，这项研究是在一个重视与企业和社会的实际相关性的专业中进行的。 因此，商学院的研究反映了高价值的智力价值，多学科或跨学科研究的潜力，以及更广泛的影响或有助于实现社会相关成果的价值。 此外，人力资本市场的动态可能会导致来自各个学科的顶尖学者被吸引到商学院，从而导致非常活跃和有影响力的研究人员从事与商业相关的研究。然而，尽管优秀的NSF资助的研究的潜力，许多商学院在奖学金，如强调期刊名单，以评估研究，这可能会带来困难，追求跨学科的研究，以及文化，不提倡追求研究赠款，以支持奖学金是常见的其他学科。