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Articolo rivista - AIS - 2016/8
McNay Ian
Imbalancing the academy: the impact of research quality assessment, di Ian McNay
Introduction It is thirty years since the first national approach to assessing research quality in a university system was introduced. The pioneer was the United Kingdom, in 1986, within a context where the Thatcher government had an agenda of «value for money» in public services, of containing the autonomy claimed by professionals, and increasing the accountability for the use of public funds. ...
Articolo rivista - AIS - 2016/8
Gläser Jochen
German universities on their way to performance-based management of research portfolios, di Jochen Gläser
Introduction I am indebted to Uwe Schimank for helpful comments.
The rise of «new public management» (NPM) in higher education systems of many OECD countries is based on, and fuels, research evaluation as a political and management tool. Central tenets of NPM – that competition increases efficiency, that resources need to be allocated to the best-performing units, and that hierarchical management ...
Articolo rivista - AIS - 2019/14
Fernández-Esquinas Manuel
The fates of social science journals in languages other than English: key issues for research communities and editorial policies, by M. Fernández-Esquinas
Introduction
Scientific journals have been undergoing an important transformation fort the last two decades. Some of the main changes affecting them have been driven by digitisation, the globalisation of the publishing market, the emergence of metrics and the use of journals in research evaluation and science policy (Mackenzie 2007; Larivière et al. 2015; Moed 2006; Malsch and Tessier 2015). ...
Articolo rivista - AIS - 2012/0
Cipriani Roberto
Grounded Theory, Sensitizing Concepts, and Computer-Assisted Theory Building, di Roberto Cipriani
Introduction
The presence of many – sometimes contradictory – theories is arguably considered a strength in the social sciences. The multitude of available theories today makes it seem impossible to have a grand theory, a specific unique theory that may be applied to all situations at all times in order to explain social phenomena. Therefore another solution becomes more and more reliable: ...