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The missing link: How university managers mediate the impact of a performance-based research funding system

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  • Jonas Krog Lind

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The impact of Performance-based Research Funding System (PRFS) has received increasing attention in recent years. However, the literature has focused on individual-level or country-level effects, mostly ignoring the ‘missing link’ between PRFSs and their effects: university managers. Drawing upon the sociology of numbers and theories of organizational translation, this article uses the concepts of actionability and legitimacy to analyse how and why managers at two Danish universities undertook local translations of a new Bibliometric Research Indicator (BRI). While scholars have emphasized how research evaluation systems can be either strong or weak by design, this study demonstrates how local managers to some extent make national systems strong or weak. The study also finds though that managers’ translations are conditioned by a range of background factors. These factors are identified as financial incentives, problem definitions, indicator competition, and identity and culture.

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  • Jonas Krog Lind, 2019. "The missing link: How university managers mediate the impact of a performance-based research funding system," Research Evaluation, Oxford University Press, vol. 28(1), pages 84-93.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rseval:v:28:y:2019:i:1:p:84-93.
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    Cited by:

    1. Daniella Bayle Deutz & Thea Marie Drachen & Dorte Drongstrup & Niels Opstrup & Charlotte Wien, 2021. "Quantitative quality: a study on how performance-based measures may change the publication patterns of Danish researchers," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(4), pages 3303-3320, April.
    2. Marques, Marcelo, 2021. "How do policy instruments generate new ones? Analysing policy instruments feedback and interaction in educational research in England, 1986-2014," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 50(10).
    3. Laura Himanen & Hanna-Mari Puuska, 2022. "Does monitoring performance act as an incentive for improving research performance? National and organizational level analysis of Finnish universities," Research Evaluation, Oxford University Press, vol. 31(2), pages 236-248.

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