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

自1990年代中期以来，德国的研究系统面临着巨大的政治和经济压力。大学和研究机构必须找到新的位置，以适应国家和社会不断变化和矛盾的需求，竞争加剧和资源短缺，以及欧洲研究体系内知识生产的加速和国际化。研究单位旨在通过经验和系统地分析改革政策“纸面上”的现实及其在大学和研究机构内的实施。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，中央媒体的控制，如资金，人员，法律，组织和决策能力和流程进行检查。此外，研究人员分析了改革对组织研究绩效的影响，特别是在采取创新研究问题的机会和激励方面。德国研究系统的改革过程将被纵向观察，以了解政策变化随时间的影响。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决策者，并可能由此提出微调新治理模式的建议。总而言之，其目的是分析在大学和研究机构内实施新的治理形式的积极和规范条件。研究部结合法律、社会科学和经济学的方法，分析改革过程及其对德国研究体系的影响。该研究单位分享一个理论框架的行为者相关的，制度化的理论方法在法律，经济学和社会科学。这些讨论激励，合同和期望稳定通过规范和信任的协调机制，在复杂的，相互依存的演员星座。首先，共有五个项目要合作。这些项目使用共同的选择程序，匹配或嵌套的对象研究和工作与共同的（上下文）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.