Abstract Analysis of organizational documentation, sociometric survey and observation data
from a two-year field study of an research and development (R&D) organization suggests …

Analysis of organizational documentation, sociometric survey and observation data from a
twoyear field study of an research and development (R&D) organization suggests that a new …

Dramatic changes in the practice of scientific research over the past half century, including
trends towards working in teams and on large projects, as well as geographically distributed …

A major focus of national and institutional research policies during the 1990s has been on
improving linkages between publicly funded research activities and industry for the purpose …

Convinced that the nature of today's scientific and technological problems demand
interdisciplinary solutions, research policy makers and funders are increasingly calling for …

As this set of papers shows abundantly, the R&D system is changing, and “steady state” is
only one possible label to characterize what is happening. The “steady state” is a system …

Management science, founded by reflexive practicing managers, is defined today by a
discourse dominated and driven by academics' ideals on theoretical and methodological …

When scientific and technical work goes on within a formal organization, what effect, if any,
does the organizational setting have on the production of facts and artefacts? This question …

This paper is concerned with the structural and cultural characteristics of research
organizations that influence the making of major discoveries in twentieth-century biomedical …

This proposal explores strategies for current and future institutional repository developments
in the context of knowledge management. We need to view repositories as part of the …