TY - JOUR
T1 - He who pays the piper calls the tune? Setting the stage for an informed discourse on third-party funding of academic business research
AU - Fink, Matthias
AU - Hatak, Isabella
AU - Scholz, Markus
AU - Down, Simon
PY - 2020/4/1
Y1 - 2020/4/1
N2 - Third-party funding of academic research has grown rapidly in its scope and impact. However, several forces demand greater attention to potential opportunities, challenges and threats of third-party research funding. Adopting a historical approach rooted in Anglo-Saxon academia, we discuss what third-party research funding means for European business researchers, which opportunities and tensions arise, and how to best manage them in the interest of the diverse stakeholders of our field. Finally, we introduce the six papers in this special issue and how they move the conversation on third-party research funding forward. The evidence base provided here is composed of a rich blend of empirical data, reflections on personal experience and conclusions drawn from formal mathematical models. As a result, the collection of papers offers a kaleidoscope of the state-of-the-art of research on third-party funding of academic business research in Europe. The insights emerging from these six papers collapse into a clear overall picture with each paper contributing a distinct jigsaw piece, a picture we present and discuss in this paper.
AB - Third-party funding of academic research has grown rapidly in its scope and impact. However, several forces demand greater attention to potential opportunities, challenges and threats of third-party research funding. Adopting a historical approach rooted in Anglo-Saxon academia, we discuss what third-party research funding means for European business researchers, which opportunities and tensions arise, and how to best manage them in the interest of the diverse stakeholders of our field. Finally, we introduce the six papers in this special issue and how they move the conversation on third-party research funding forward. The evidence base provided here is composed of a rich blend of empirical data, reflections on personal experience and conclusions drawn from formal mathematical models. As a result, the collection of papers offers a kaleidoscope of the state-of-the-art of research on third-party funding of academic business research in Europe. The insights emerging from these six papers collapse into a clear overall picture with each paper contributing a distinct jigsaw piece, a picture we present and discuss in this paper.
KW - Conceptual framework
KW - Empirical evidence
KW - Europe
KW - Third-party funding
KW - Academic research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074747734&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11846-019-00364-1
DO - 10.1007/s11846-019-00364-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074747734
SN - 1863-6683
VL - 14
SP - 335
EP - 343
JO - Review of managerial science
JF - Review of managerial science
ER -