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TY - JOUR
T1 - Complexities, challenges and implications of collaborative work within a regime of performance measurement
T2 - the case of management and organisation studies
AU - Jeanes, Emma
AU - Loacker, Bernadette Isabel
AU - Sliwa, Martyna
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in Higher Education on 26/03/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03075079.2018.1453793
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - The current demands on higher education institutions (HEIs) to become more efficient and effective have led to increasing performance pressures on researchers, and consequently on the practices and outcomes of researcher collaborations. In this paper, based on a qualitative study of collaborative experiences of management and organisation studies scholars, we explore the complexities and challenges of researcher collaborations under the current regime of academic performance measurement. Our study suggests that researcher collaborations are underpinned by four main rationalities: traditional-hierarchical, strategic-instrumental, scholarly-professional and relationship-orientated. We find that strategic-instrumental rationalities are the most prevalent and typically infuse other rationalities. Our research demonstrates that there are potential adverse consequences for the quality and purpose of outputs, the effects on collegial relationships and risks of exploitation and reinvoked hierarchies in collaborative relationships. The study reveals some of the problematic implications for academics and HEIs that emerge as a consequence of research productivity measurement.
AB - The current demands on higher education institutions (HEIs) to become more efficient and effective have led to increasing performance pressures on researchers, and consequently on the practices and outcomes of researcher collaborations. In this paper, based on a qualitative study of collaborative experiences of management and organisation studies scholars, we explore the complexities and challenges of researcher collaborations under the current regime of academic performance measurement. Our study suggests that researcher collaborations are underpinned by four main rationalities: traditional-hierarchical, strategic-instrumental, scholarly-professional and relationship-orientated. We find that strategic-instrumental rationalities are the most prevalent and typically infuse other rationalities. Our research demonstrates that there are potential adverse consequences for the quality and purpose of outputs, the effects on collegial relationships and risks of exploitation and reinvoked hierarchies in collaborative relationships. The study reveals some of the problematic implications for academics and HEIs that emerge as a consequence of research productivity measurement.
KW - Academic hierarchy
KW - business schools
KW - New Public Management
KW - researcher collaboration
KW - research performance management
U2 - 10.1080/03075079.2018.1453793
DO - 10.1080/03075079.2018.1453793
M3 - Journal article
VL - 44
SP - 1539
EP - 1553
JO - Studies in Higher Education
JF - Studies in Higher Education
SN - 0307-5079
IS - 9
ER -