Governing interdisciplinary cooperation in Centers of Excellence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4097873 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tomas Hellström (0000-0002-3580-2383, Lund University, corresponding author), Erik Brattström (Lund University), Leila Jabrane (Lund University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1763-1777 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2018.1520476 |
| OpenAlex | W2900280483 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 32 |
In the past years Centers of Excellence (CoE) has risen to prominence as a funding instrument in science. The idea is that by focusing resources, people and attention within a center environment, and over a substantial time span, excellence in science can be promoted. Similarly, interdisciplinarity is often seen as an enabling condition or even necessary for frontier research. This article builds on a qualitative interview study with Swedish Centers of Excellence (CoE) directors, and asks the question: - how is interdisciplinarity governed and developed within a CoE environment, and what is its effects in terms of research processes and organization. The study presents a detailed account of a number of aspects of interdisciplinary governance, conditions and outcomes, and describes how these relate via specific mechanisms. Together the results illuminate how CoE governance creates pathways to interdisciplinarity, that allow collaboration to go beyond mere interaction, and towards integration of specialisms
Center of excellence · Corporate governance · Economics · Engineering ethics · Excellence · Frontier · Higher education · Management · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Engineering · Innovation, Technology, and Society · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Law · University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
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Competition as a catalyst for collaboration
One model fits all? How centres of excellence affect research organisation and practices in the humanities
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Affording excellence
Epistemic governance and the conditions for knowledge production in HER institutions
The new production of knowledge
Creating Interdisciplinarity
Organizational and institutional influences on creativity in scientific research
‘Interdisciplinary strategies’ in U.S. research universities
The Theory, Practice, and Evaluation of the Phenomenological Method as a Qualitative Research Procedure
The Intellectual and Social Organization Of the Sciences
Creative Knowledge Environments. The Influences on Creativity in Research and Innovation
Governing Science
Epistemic capacity in research environments
Homing in on excellence
Advancing the social sciences through the interdisciplinary enterprise
What is interdisciplinary communication? Reflections on the very idea of disciplinary integration
Interdisciplinarity
Going beyond disciplines
Concepts of Interdisciplinarity
Learning Interdisciplinarity
A General Inductive Approach for Analyzing Qualitative Evaluation Data
Shared Cognitive-Emotional-Interactional Platforms
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |