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Research leadership as entrepreneurial organizing for research

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Higher Education, 55 (6): 651--670 (June 2008)

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Abstract  The paper discusses research leadership in public universities under change and the role of entrepreneurial strategies in research. Research leadership function today in situations where the New Public Management movement one the one hand haveintroduced management by accountability and control in the university while on the other hand open boundaries to other knowledgeorganizations, arenas and networks, and creation of resources are becoming more important than ever. Hence, an entrepreneurialstrategy is more important than traditional managerial skills in order to produce new knowledge centres. By analysing twocases on the construction of new research groups, we will introduce new perspectives on research leadership, where dilemmas,uncertainty and complex relations to other managerial systems in the universities are in the forefront. The paper presentsan important contribution to the understanding of a special form of creating new knowledge production in the university bymeans of organizational entrepreneurship.

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