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The Shift in Academic Quality Control

Sven Hemlin

Göteborg University

Søren Barlebo Rasmussen

Copenhagen Business School

Quality control is an important and integrated part of the scientific system. However, developments in science and society are changing quality control into quality monitoring. New, virtual, and fluid organizational forms are emerging. Common boundaries are seen as being broken down as, for example, in the "triple helix" and the "mode 2" concepts. The stakeholders in science are showing an interest in being more involved in science. They want their evaluation criteria to be used, and they want evaluations to be done on a regular basis because they do not trust the new scientific institutions to be left on their own. Quality monitoring changes the requirements for conducting evaluations as part of quality control. Assessing the societal value of research becomes increasingly important. Finally, quality monitoring emphasizes organizational learning rather than controlling quality in scientific organizations.

Key Words: quality control • quality monitoring • research evaluation • organizational forms • organizational learning

Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol. 31, No. 2, 173-198 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0162243905283639
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