Explaining heterogeneity in the organization of scientific work.
Co-author(s): Hazhir RahmandAD (MIT)
Published in Organization Science, 2019
Prior studies of academic science have largely focused on researchers in life sciences or engineering. However, while academic researchers often work under similar institutions, norms, and incentives, they vary greatly in how they organize their research efforts across different scientific domains. This heterogeneity, in turn, has important implications for innovation policy, the relationship between industry and academia, the scientific labor market, and the perceived deficit in the relevance of social sciences and humanities research. To understand this heterogeneity, we model scientists as publication-maximizing agents, identifying two distinct organizational patterns that are optimal under different parameters… Read more
Recommended citation: Rahmandad, H., Vakili, K. 2019. "Explaining Heterogeneity in the Organization of Scientific Work." Organization Science, 30(6): 1125-1393.
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/orsc.2019.1303