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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author NOKKALA, Terhi (DIOGO, Sara)
Title Institutional perspectives in transition: research groups’ profiles and embeddedness in organisational and national context/ Terhi Nokkala ; Sara Diogo
Publication year 2020
Source/Footnote In: Higher education. - 79 (2020) 3, S. 515 - 532
Inventory number 49187
Keywords Informationsgesellschaft / Wissensgesellschaft ; Forschung : allgemein ; Forschungsförderung
Abstract Research into differentiation and profiling of knowledge producing institutions through the lenses of institutional logics and field embeddedness have proliferated in recent years. By discussing this process in the context of research groups, as those basic units in which knowledge production epistemically and practically takes place, this article offers a contribution to the theoretical discussion on organisational differentiation. Based on a small-N comparative case study of research groups operating in different national and organisational contexts on a single, highly competitive and interdisciplinary applied sciences field, nanosciences, the article proposes research group profiles as heuristic devices to explore both the embeddedness and strategic agency of research groups.forschungsf (HRK / Abstract übernommen)