Evaluation and innovation
An antagonistic pair
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3084039 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fred D’agostino (0000-0001-5725-5723, The University of Queensland), J Malpas (0000-0003-4378-8937, University of Tasmania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 345-349 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science Information (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/05390184211018670 |
| OpenAlex | W3168602489 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
Picking up on Olof Hallonsten's contention that contemporary science evaluation is 'mostly counterproductive', we argue that the contemporary focus on evaluation is antagonistic to innovation or novelty in science, even though innovation is one of the values that evaluation is often supposed to support. In arguing for the antagonistic relation between evaluation and innovation, we consider arguments from the nature of audit and the situational logic of scientific practice
Audit · Business · Epistemology · Knowledge management · Novelty · Situational ethics · Sociology · Computer Science · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Research, Science, and Academia · Social Psychology · Accounting
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |