Quality and Research Evaluation in Organizations

TY - UNPB

T1 - Quality and Research Evaluation in Organizations

AU - Hansson, Finn

PY - 2003

Y1 - 2003

N2 - A central issue in science policy today is the changing role and function ofresearch evaluation. How is quality selected, has local organizational traditionsand managerial practices influence on the research evaluation? Who isperceived as peers or evaluators by the researchers and by managers? Recentorganizational theory has focused on organizational and social dimensions inprivate knowledge-based companies, but left out research organizations. Howimportant is the organizational context for the research evaluation processes?The paper will present results from an interview-based study of four privateand public research organizations and discuss the importance of theorganizational context on the production of new knowledge.

AB - A central issue in science policy today is the changing role and function ofresearch evaluation. How is quality selected, has local organizational traditionsand managerial practices influence on the research evaluation? Who isperceived as peers or evaluators by the researchers and by managers? Recentorganizational theory has focused on organizational and social dimensions inprivate knowledge-based companies, but left out research organizations. Howimportant is the organizational context for the research evaluation processes?The paper will present results from an interview-based study of four privateand public research organizations and discuss the importance of theorganizational context on the production of new knowledge.

KW - forskningsevaluering

KW - forskningsledelse

KW - kvalitet

KW - cases

M3 - Working paper

SN - 8791181666

BT - Quality and Research Evaluation in Organizations

PB - Lindhardt & Ringhof

CY - København

ER -