STRATEGIES FOR ORGANISING AND MANAGING RESEARCH AT UNIVERSITIES: SYSTEMIC REVIEW

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20535/2410-8286.227831

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to identify and synthesise the interventions used to build the strategies for organising and managing research at universities that can be feasible in Ukraine. To achieve this purpose we provided a descriptive profile of the interventions and strategies used at universities to organise and manage research, rather than the detailed examination of substantive research results. The method of descriptive content analysis was applied to analyse empirical, experimental, review, conceptual, and commentary sources revealing strategies of organising and managing research at universities. The growth and corporate type strategies are dominant at universities, particularly in the USA and EU. The universities mainly seek cost-effective research opportunities that can help the institutions build a strong international brand. The policy of institutional strategic research management aimed at cooperation in research with other sectors seems to be the most feasible and appropriate for the Ukrainian research management context. Creating project management communities was found to be the second most feasible and appropriate strategy of organising and managing the university research in Ukraine. Financial criterion dominates in assessing the interventions for building a strategy of organising and managing research at universities. The university research can be stimulated at the state level through a demand-oriented reform that is aimed at reshaping the management of personnel, talent selection system, and personnel assessment.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Kateryna Shykhnenko , Institute of Public Administration and Research in Civil Protection, Kyiv, Ukraine

звідувач кафедри мовної підготовки

References

  1. Ahmed, J. U., Ahmed, K. U., Shimul, A. S., & Zuñiga, R. (2015). Managing Strategies for Higher Education Institutions in the UK. Higher Education for the Future, 2 (1), 32-48. https://doi.org/10.1177/2347631114558189
  2. Arthur, J. F., & Hodge, R. M. (2013). A model for managing intellectual property, commercialisation, and technology transfer within a collaborative research environment. International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering, 7(12), 3142-3245. https://publications.waset.org/9996853/a-model-for-managing-intellectual-property-commercialisation-and-technology-transfer-within-a-collaborative-research-environment
  3. Asadabadi, M. R., Chang, E., & Saberi, M. | Zhou, Z. (Reviewing editor) (2019) Are MCDM methods useful? A critical review of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP). Cogent Engineering, 6(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311916.2019.1623153
  4. Bethel, A., & Rogers, M. (2018). Choosing the right databases and search techniques. In P. Levay & J. Craven (Eds.), Systematic Searching (pp. 73-94). Facet. https://doi.org/10.29085/9781783303755.005
  5. Derrick, G., & Nickson, A. (2014). Research management provides a balance between promoting the needs of institutions to meet their organisational objectives and the ability of academics to determine the best means of performing research. The Journal of Research Administration, 45(2), 11-45. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1157172
  6. Greenhalgh, T., Robert, G., Bate, P., Macfarlane, F. & Kyriakidou O. (2005). Critical Appraisal Checklists: Appendix 2. In T. Greenhalgh, G. Robert, P. Bate, F. Macfarlane & O. Kyriakidou, Diffusion of Innovations in Health Service Organisations: A Systematic Literature Review (pp. 234-244). https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470987407.app2
  7. Habib, M. & Pathik, B. B. (2012). An investigation of education and research management for tertiary academic institutions. International Journal of Engineering Business Management, 4(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.5772/45735
  8. Hazelkorn, E. (2010). Research strategy and management: University-based research in the knowledge economy. In J. Huisman and A.Pausits (eds.), Higher Education Management and Development(pp. 131-146). Compendium for Managers, Waxman Verlag GmbH, Münster .
  9. Johnson, M. R., Bolte, J., Veldman, T., & Sutton, L. (2020). Establishing a project management community of practice in a large academic health system. Journal of Research Administration, 51(2), 102-110. https://www.srainternational.org/blogs/srai-jra1/2020/09/29/establishing-a-project-management-community-of-pra
    |
  10. Jung, J. (2012). David D. Dill and Frans A. van Vught (Eds). National innovation and the academic research enterprise: public policy in the global perspective. Higher Education, 63, 383–385 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-011-9435-x
  11. Kiopa, A., Schlicht, M., Sinclair, P., Szilágyi, L., Chang, H., Angelis, J., Nauwelaers, C., Posselt, T., & Schuch, K. (2016). Peer review of the Ukrainian research and innovation system: Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility. European Commission. https://rio.jrc.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/report/KI%20AX%2016%20008%20EN%20N_UKR_0.pdf Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union
  12. Moher, D., Shamseer, L., Clarke, M., Ghersi, D., Liberati, A., Petticrew, M., Shekelle, P., Stewart, L. A., & PRISMA-P Group (2015). Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement. Systematic Review, 4(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-4-1
    |
  13. Newman, M., & Gough, D. (2020). Systematic Reviews in Educational Research: Methodology, Perspectives, and Application. In: Zawacki-Richter O., Kerres M., Bedenlier S., Bond M., Buntins K. (Eds.) Systematic Reviews in Educational Research. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27602-7_1
  14. Nguyen, H. & Meek, V. L. (2015). Key considerations in organizing and structuring university research. Journal of Research Administration, (46) 1, 41-62. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1156089
  15. Papaioannou, D., Sutton, A., Carroll, C., Booth, A., & Wong, R. (2009). Literature searching for social science systematic reviews: consideration of a range of search techniques. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 27(2), 114-122. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2009.00863.x
    |
  16. Qiu, D., & Lu, Y. (2014). Research on the evaluation of enterprise-university-research cooperation ability in Hubei Province. International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering, 8(6), 1724-1731. https://zenodo.org/record/1093185/files/9998503.pdf
  17. Robbins, S., Bergman, R., & Coulter, M. (2018). Management, 8th edition. Pearson.
  18. Saaty, T. L. (2008). Relative measurement and its generalization in decision making: Why pairwise comparisons are central in mathematics for the measurement of intangible factors. The Analytic Hierarchy/Network Process. Madrid: Review of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences, Series A, Mathematics, 102(2), 251-318. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03191825
  19. Saaty, T. L. (2009a). Extending the Measurement of Tangibles to Intangibles. International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, 8 (1), 7-27. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219622009003247
  20. Saaty, R. (2009b). Validation Examples for the Analytic Hierarchy Process and the Analytic Network Process. In W. Adamus (Ed.), The Analytic Hierarchy and Network Processes: Application in Solving Multicriteria Decision Problems (pp. 39-62). Jagiellonian University Press.
  21. Saardchom, N. (2012). The validation of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) scoring model. International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry, 5(2), 163-166. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijlse.2012.048472
  22. Saarela, A-M. (2016). Making food science education and research activities more attractive for university students and food enterprises by utilizing an open innovative space approach. International Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences, 10(1), 95-98. https://publications.waset.org/10003348/making-food-science-education-and-research-activities-more-attractive-for-university-students-and-food-enterprises-by-utilizing-open-innovative-space-approach
  23. Sawahel, W. (2019). The study points to the importance of research management capacity. University World News. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20190709140805939
  24. Smith, D. O. (2011). Managing the Research University. Oxford Scholarship Online. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199793259.001.0001
  25. Taherdoost, H. (2017). Decision making using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP): A step by step approach. International Journal of Economics and Management Systems, 2, 1-4. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3224206
  26. Tasir, Z., Kew, S. N., West, D., Abdullah, Z., & Toohey D. (2016). Collaborative research between Malaysian and Australian universities on learning analytics: Challenges and Strategies. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Open Science Index 116, International Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences, 10(8), 2900-2906. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1126211
  27. Tsafnet, G., Glasziou, P., Choong, M. K., Dunn, A., Galgani, F. & Coiera, E. (2014). Systematic review automation technologies. Systematic Reviews 3, 74. https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-3-74
    |
  28. Vargas, R. V. (2010). Using the analytic hierarchy process (ahp) to select and prioritise projects in a portfolio. Project Management Institute. https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/analytic-hierarchy-process-prioritize-projects-6608
  29. Verkhovnа Radа Ukrainy (VRU) [Supreme Council of Ukraine]. (2016). Zakon Ukrainy “Pro naukovu i naukovo-tekhnichnu diialnist” vid 26 lystopada 2015 roku № 848-VIII [The Law of Ukraine “On Scientific and Scientific and Technical Activities” of November 26, 2015 (№ 848-VIII)]. Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy — Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 3, 25. https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/848-19 [in Ukrainian].
  30. Wallis, S. & Bates, I. (2016). Strengthening research management and support systems (RMSS) in African universities. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/research/centres-and-units/capacity-research-unit-cru/our-projects/strengthening-research-management
  31. Watsilla, H. J., & Vajjhala, N. R. (2020). Knowledge Management in Academic: A perspective of academic research contribution to the economic development of a nation. International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering, 14(3), 180-184. https://publications.waset.org/10011114/knowledge-management-in-academic-a-perspective-of-academic-research-contribution-to-economic-development-of-a-nation

Downloads

Published

2021-07-31

How to Cite

Shykhnenko , K. ., & Sbruieva, A. . (2021). STRATEGIES FOR ORGANISING AND MANAGING RESEARCH AT UNIVERSITIES: SYSTEMIC REVIEW. Advanced Education, 8(18), 42–52. https://doi.org/10.20535/2410-8286.227831

Issue

2021: Issue 18

Section

ARTICLES

License

Copyright (c) 2021 Kateryna Shykhnenko, Alina Sbruieva

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

    1. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

  1. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).