The Determinants of Research Group Performance
This paper explores the determinants of performance of research groups in the context of the emergence of knowledge as a key intangible asset. It focuses specifically on how best to configure knowledge producers for optimal effectiveness in the current research environment. It explores the under-researched area of the organization and management of research groups located in and at the interface of university research and focuses on medical and medical-related research groups. The discussion is embedded within the current debate concerning modes of organization in knowledge production. Factors identified with high-achievement are: strong leadership; finding, motivating and retaining talent; strategies of related diversification; strongly linked theory and practice and, in particular, network connectedness. Such groups exhibit an increasingly complex internal environment, facilitating a flexible response to an increasingly complex external environment. It finds evidence of Mode 2 working, with increasing use of collaborative strategies and some evidence of a thematic emphasis emerging, although to a lesser extent than the literature suggests, since participants are still working from a strongly disciplinary base. Driven by the more competitive environment, both intellectual and commercial forms of entrepreneurship are present. At the hub of this complex web of inter-related factors is network connectedness, which proves to be centrally facilitative in mobilizing the other necessary resources.
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2002
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Authors: | Harvey, Janet ; Pettigrew, Andrew ; Ferlie, Ewan |
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Type of publication: | Article |
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Language: | English |
Notes: | Harvey, Janet, Pettigrew, Andrew and Ferlie, Ewan (2002) The Determinants of Research Group Performance. Journal of Management Studies, 39 (6). pp. 747-774. |
Other identifiers: | 10.1111/1467-6486.00310 [DOI] |
Source: | BASE |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011423423
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