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The Changing Governance of the Sciences

The Advent of Research Evaluation Systems

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Richard Whitley

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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  2. Jochen Gläser

    1. University of Lancaster, UK

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  • Systematic approach to the analysis of national systems of ex post research evaluation
  • Comparative country studies
  • Foci on both institutionalisation processes and impacts on knowledge production

Part of the book series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook (SOSC, volume 26)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Changing Governance of the Public Sciences

      • Richard Whitley
      Pages 3-27

  3. Universities as Strategic Actors: State Delegation and Changing Patterns of Evaluation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. The Visible Hand Versus The Invisible Hand

      • Lars Engwall, Thorsten Nybom
      Pages 31-49

    3. Prospective And Retrospective Evaluation Systems In Context: Insights From Japan

      • Robert Kneller
      Pages 51-73

    4. Elite Through Rankings – The Emergence Of the Enterprising University

      • Peter Weingart, Sabine Maasen
      Pages 75-99

    5. The Social Construction Of Bibliometric Evaluations

      • Jochen GläSer, Grit Laudel
      Pages 101-123

  4. Weak and Strong Research Evaluation Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Evaluation Without Evaluators

      • Jochen GläSer, Grit Laudel
      Pages 127-151

    3. The Basic State of Research in Germany: Conditions of Knowledge Production Pre-Evaluation

      • Stefan Lange
      Pages 153-170

    4. Research Evaluation as Organisational Development

      • Christof Schiene, Uwe Schimank
      Pages 171-190

    5. Interfering Governance and Emerging Centres of Control

      • Barend Van Der Meulen
      Pages 191-203

    6. Research Evaluation in Transition

      • Laura Cruz-Castro, Luis Sanz-MenéNdez
      Pages 205-223

    7. Death By Peer Review?

      • Susan E. Cozzens
      Pages 225-242

  5. Concluding Reflections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. The Social Orders of Research Evaluation Systems

      • Jochen Gläser
      Pages 245-266

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 267-271
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About this book

This book arose from a conversation between Lars Engwall and Richard Whitley during the 2003 European Group for Organization Studies Colloquium in Copenhagen about important topics for future research. We agreed then, and this has been amply confirmed by subsequent events, that the proliferation of research eval- tion schemes, especially in Europe, was an important feature of the changing re- tionships between the state, universities and scientific research more generally, which needed systematic and comparative analysis. With the support of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, this discussion led to workshops in Uppsala and Manchester involving colleagues from Australia, Germany and the Netherlands at which the main framework for such an analysis was developed. This framework then formed the basis for the conference at Bielefeld in 2005 at which earlier versions of most of the papers in this volume were presented and extensively discussed. We are very grateful for the support of the PRIME network of the European Commission and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science for this c- ference, as well as the invaluable efforts of Peter Weingart of the University of Bielefeld. We are also greatly indebted to the members of the Editorial Board who commented on various drafts of these papers as well as to Aant Elzinga, Stefan Kuhlmann, Philippe Laredo, Arie Rip and Nic Vonortas who acted as referees.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Manchester, UK

    Richard Whitley

  • University of Lancaster, UK

    Jochen Gläser

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