FOR 517: International Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of Universities and Research Organisations - New Forms of Governance

自20世纪90年代中期以来，德国的研究体系承受着巨大的政治和经济压力。大学和研究机构必须针对国家和社会不断变化和相互矛盾的需求、日益激烈的竞争和资源短缺以及欧洲研究体系内知识生产的加速和国际化找到新的定位。研究单位旨在对改革政策的现实情况进行实证和系统的分析，并在大学和研究机构中实施改革政策。该小组将考虑大学、研究和科学组织的内部和外部治理形式。特别是，中央控制媒体，如金钱，人员，法律，组织和决策能力和过程进行了审查。此外，研究人员还分析了改革对组织研究绩效的影响，特别是在接受创新研究问题的机会和激励方面。德国研究系统的改革进程将受到纵向关注，以了解随着时间的推移政策变化的影响。此外，与国外改革模式的横向比较也在研究议程上。研究结果将反馈给行为者和政策制定者，并可能由此得出对新治理模式进行微调的建议。总而言之，目的是分析在大学和研究机构内部实施新的治理形式的积极和规范的条件。研究股结合了法律、社会科学和经济学的方法，同时分析改革进程及其对德国研究系统的影响。研究股分享法律、经济和社会科学中与行为者有关的制度主义理论方法的理论框架。它们讨论了通过规范和信任作为复杂、相互依存的行动者星座中的协调机制的激励、契约和预期稳定。首先，共有五个项目将进行合作。这些项目使用共同的选择程序，对研究对象进行匹配或嵌套，并使用共同的(背景)记录。

The German research system is under high political and economical pressure since the middle of the 1990s. Universities and research organisations have to find new positions with respect to changing and contradictory demands of state and society, increasing competition and shortage of resources as well as acceleration and internationalisation of knowledge production within the European research system.The Research Unit aims to analyse empirically and systematically the reality of reform policy "on paper" and its implementation within universities and research organisations. The Group will regard the internal as well as the external forms of governance of universities, research and science organisations. Especially, central media of control such as money, personnel, law, organisation and decision competencies and processes are examined. In addition, the researchers analyse the impact of the reforms on research performance of the organisations, especially with respect to opportunities and incentives of taking up innovative research questions. Reform processes in the German research system will be regarded longitudinally to see the impacts of policy changes over time. In addition, a cross-sectional comparison to foreign reform models is on the research agenda. The research results will be fed back to actors and policy makers and recommendations for fine-tuning of the new governance models may come out of this. To sum up, the aim is to analyse the positive and normative conditions for the implementation of new forms of governance within universities and research organisations.The Research Unit combines approaches of law, social science as well as economics while analysing the reform processes and their consequences for the German research system. The Research Unit shares a theoretical framework of actor related, institutionalistic theoretical approaches in law, economics and social sciences. These discuss incentives, contracting and expectancy stabilisation through norms and trust as mechanisms of coordination in complex, interdependent actor constellations. In the first instance, altogether five projects are going to cooperate. These projects use common selection procedures, matching or nesting of the objects under study and work with common (context-) records.