The impact of institutional reforms on the nature of universities as organisations / Richard Whitley, Jochen Glöser -- Empowerment of French universities by funding and evaluation agencies / Christine Musselin -- Funding individuals' changing organisations : the impact of the ERC on universities / Jakob Edler ... [et al.] -- Where have all the scientists gone? Building research profiles at Dutch universities and its consequences for research / Grit Laudel, Elke Weyer -- Merger mania in science : organizational restructuring and patterns of cooperation in an academic research centre / Julien Barrier -- Institutional conditions and changing research practices in Switzerland / Martin Benninghoff ... [et al.] -- Cold atoms : hot research : high risks, high rewards in five different authority structures / Grit Laudel ... [et al.] -- Highly adaptable but not invulnerable : necessary and facilitating conditions for research in evolutionary developmental biology / Grit Laudel ... [et al.] -- Path dependence and policy steering in the social sciences : the varied impact of international large scale student assessment on the educational sciences in four European countries / Jochen Glöser ... [et al.] -- Where to go for a change : the impact of authority structures in universities and public research institutes on changes of research practices / Jochen Glöser ... [et al.] -- Computer corpus linguistics : an innovation in the humanities / Lars Engwall ... [et al.] -- How do institutional changes affect scientific innovations? The effects of shifts in authority relationships, protected space, and flexibility / Richard Whitley.

The first part of this book deals with the transformation of universities as strategic organisational actors in some cases creating them as such while the second shows how governance and authority shifts are affecting the kinds of research goals being pursued by academics in different public science systems.

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