TY - JOUR

T1 - How do universities’ organizational characteristics, management strategies, and culture influence academic research collaboration?

T2 - A literature review and research agenda

AU - Kienast, Sarah Rebecca

N1 - Funding Information: This work has been part of the project “Relational Quality: Developing Quality through Collaborative Networks and Collaboration Portfolios” (Q-KNOW). Funding for the project was awarded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung; BMBF) (grant number 01PW18011A).

PY - 2023/6

Y1 - 2023/6

N2 - In the contemporary science and higher education system, national and supranational governments fund and foster universities to collaborate through specific funding lines and competition in World University Rankings, making it indispensable for universities to demonstrate collaboration at the organizational level. Thus, universities strive to encourage their scientific members to collaborate – and to different degrees – facilitate forms of collaboration. Questions on how universities as organizations influence academic research collaboration arise. To go beyond the existing literature, this study firstly develops an analytical two-dimensional framework organizing the literature on four levels of investigation (meta, macro, meso, micro). Based on this framework, the paper presents a literature review of the current state of the art in academic research collaboration. Secondly, the paper establishes a research agenda by synthesizing organizational influences found as organizational characteristics, management strategies, and organizational culture and presents three research avenues for future research. The paper concludes that we have only just begun to study the organizational influences of universities (especially the organizational culture) on academic research collaboration and how these organizational categories are interrelated.

AB - In the contemporary science and higher education system, national and supranational governments fund and foster universities to collaborate through specific funding lines and competition in World University Rankings, making it indispensable for universities to demonstrate collaboration at the organizational level. Thus, universities strive to encourage their scientific members to collaborate – and to different degrees – facilitate forms of collaboration. Questions on how universities as organizations influence academic research collaboration arise. To go beyond the existing literature, this study firstly develops an analytical two-dimensional framework organizing the literature on four levels of investigation (meta, macro, meso, micro). Based on this framework, the paper presents a literature review of the current state of the art in academic research collaboration. Secondly, the paper establishes a research agenda by synthesizing organizational influences found as organizational characteristics, management strategies, and organizational culture and presents three research avenues for future research. The paper concludes that we have only just begun to study the organizational influences of universities (especially the organizational culture) on academic research collaboration and how these organizational categories are interrelated.

KW - Competition

KW - Governance

KW - Organization studies

KW - Science studies

KW - Two-dimensional framework

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85150693097&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s11233-022-09101-y

DO - 10.1007/s11233-022-09101-y

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85150693097

VL - 29

SP - 139

EP - 160

JO - Tertiary Education and Management

JF - Tertiary Education and Management

SN - 1358-3883

IS - 2

ER -