Toward an Integration of Organization Research and Practice: A Contingency Study of Bureaucratic Control and Performance in Scientific Settings

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Toward an Integration of Organization Research and Practice: A Contingency Study of Bureaucratic Control and Performance in Scientific Settings. / McKinley, William; Cheng, Joseph L.C.
in: Administrative Science Quarterly, Jahrgang 28, Nr. 1, 01.03.1983, S. 85-100.

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title = "Toward an Integration of Organization Research and Practice: A Contingency Study of Bureaucratic Control and Performance in Scientific Settings",
abstract = "Three characteristics of utilizable research - practical relevance, applicability of findings, and specificity - were identified and used as a basis for assessing the usefulness of the results from this study. The focus of the study was the contingency effect of bureaucratic control on organizational performance, and the organizations studied were scientific research units in universities. It was hypothesized that bureaucratic control, exercised through influence from national science policy on the choice of unit research themes, will have a positive effect on research-unit productivity in scientific fields with highly developed paradigms. This effect, however, will decline as paradigm development decreases and will become negative in fields with less developed paradigms. Data from an international sample (N = 288) of academic research units supported the hypothesis. Implications for designing national science policy to foster research productivity are discussed, and suggestions are made for the conduct of organization research that has practical utility for decision makers.",
keywords = "Management studies",
author = "William McKinley and Cheng, {Joseph L.C.}",
note = "This is an equally coauthored study. We would like tothankJan Beyer, Carlos Kruyt- bosch, Anthony Cobb, and three anonymous ASQ reviewers fortheir helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Portions of this paper were presented at the Albany Conference on Organization Theory and Public Policy, Albany, NY, April 1982",
year = "1983",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.2307/2392388",
language = "English",
volume = "28",
pages = "85--100",
journal = "Administrative Science Quarterly",
issn = "1930-3815",
publisher = "Johnson School at Cornell University",
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T1 - Toward an Integration of Organization Research and Practice

T2 - A Contingency Study of Bureaucratic Control and Performance in Scientific Settings

AU - McKinley, William

AU - Cheng, Joseph L.C.

N1 - This is an equally coauthored study. We would like tothankJan Beyer, Carlos Kruyt- bosch, Anthony Cobb, and three anonymous ASQ reviewers fortheir helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Portions of this paper were presented at the Albany Conference on Organization Theory and Public Policy, Albany, NY, April 1982

PY - 1983/3/1

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N2 - Three characteristics of utilizable research - practical relevance, applicability of findings, and specificity - were identified and used as a basis for assessing the usefulness of the results from this study. The focus of the study was the contingency effect of bureaucratic control on organizational performance, and the organizations studied were scientific research units in universities. It was hypothesized that bureaucratic control, exercised through influence from national science policy on the choice of unit research themes, will have a positive effect on research-unit productivity in scientific fields with highly developed paradigms. This effect, however, will decline as paradigm development decreases and will become negative in fields with less developed paradigms. Data from an international sample (N = 288) of academic research units supported the hypothesis. Implications for designing national science policy to foster research productivity are discussed, and suggestions are made for the conduct of organization research that has practical utility for decision makers.

AB - Three characteristics of utilizable research - practical relevance, applicability of findings, and specificity - were identified and used as a basis for assessing the usefulness of the results from this study. The focus of the study was the contingency effect of bureaucratic control on organizational performance, and the organizations studied were scientific research units in universities. It was hypothesized that bureaucratic control, exercised through influence from national science policy on the choice of unit research themes, will have a positive effect on research-unit productivity in scientific fields with highly developed paradigms. This effect, however, will decline as paradigm development decreases and will become negative in fields with less developed paradigms. Data from an international sample (N = 288) of academic research units supported the hypothesis. Implications for designing national science policy to foster research productivity are discussed, and suggestions are made for the conduct of organization research that has practical utility for decision makers.

KW - Management studies

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U2 - 10.2307/2392388

DO - 10.2307/2392388

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 28

SP - 85

EP - 100

JO - Administrative Science Quarterly

JF - Administrative Science Quarterly

SN - 1930-3815

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