Expert Judgment versus Market Accounting in an Industrial Research Lab
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5338145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Giannella (0000-0003-3473-4339, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 402-437 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243915601485 |
| OpenAlex | W1768197081 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 42 |
Accounts of change in contemporary research in industry and the academy often note the increasing coexistence of market and academic norms and practices. This article suggests that, at least in industry, these conflicting norms and practices are often preserved by loose coupling between market pressures and the research organization. Based on a two-year case study, this article examines the imposition of tight coupling at an industry lab that had previously been able to maintain some of the norms and practices associated with the academy. Tight market coupling limited the role of judgment in the governance of research. First, a market-based quantitative project selection system delegitimized expert judgment. As a result, projects with obvious market and technical uncertainties were more difficult to justify. Second, objective, market-based oversight also limited the role of expert judgment. Tracking the return on investment of scientists' hours with time cards had the effect of discouraging time spent on learning or exploratory work. In many cases, researchers argued that displacement of judgment for a quantitative governance system caused work to shift away from research and toward product development
Business · Corporate governance · Economics · Exploratory research · Management · Microeconomics · Political science · Product market · Sociology · Engineering · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis · Law · scientometrics and bibliometrics research · Accounting
Environments and organizations
The Audit Society
How Economics Shapes Science
The Sense of Dissonance
Science-Mart
Loosely Coupled Systems
Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management
Peripheral Vision
Incompletely Theorized Agreements
The Road to Hell
Science, Faith and Society
Modernity and Enchantment
Introduction
Quantification and the Accounting Ideal in Science
Industry collaboration, scientific sharing, and the dissemination of knowledge
Accounting for Research
The Contract Research Organization and the Commercialization of Scientific Research
Why Did Universities Start Patenting
Pasteur's Quadrant
Changing Research Cultures in U.S. Industry
The Making of American Industrial Research
Audit Cultures
Not Just Neoliberalism
The Emergence of a Competitiveness Research and Development Policy Coalition and the Commercialization of Academic Science and Technology
Quality Assured Science
Contradiction, convergence and the knowledge economy
The Myth Incarnate
Connecting Science to the Economic
Ambiguous Assets for Uncertain Environments
The Scientific Life
A Social History of Truth
Catching up with Robert Merton
Institutionalized Organizations
Science, capitalism, and the rise of the 'knowledge worker
Science and neoliberal globalization
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |