Antecedents of co‐ordination in academic international project research

Turati, Carlo; Usai, Alessandro; Ravagnani, Roberto

doi:10.1108/02683949810214995

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“…Third, managing international research networks has its peculiarities. Due to the loose institutional bonds, the cultural diversity and the geographic spread such networks have to rely on a number of mechanisms for co-ordination and control (for different types of such mechanisms see, e.g., Mayrhofer 1998;Turati et al 1998).…”

Section: Establishing and Maintaining Research Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

European Human Resource Management: Researching Developments over Time

Mayrhofer¹,

Brewster²

2005

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Section: Establishing and Maintaining Research Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

European Human Resource Management: Researching Developments over Time

Mayrhofer¹,

Brewster²

2005

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“…Second, it is possible to use a cross-cultural team as a partial solution (e.g., Michailova & Liuhto, 2000;Nason & Pulillutla, 1998;Teagarden et al, 1995;Turati, Usai, & Ravagnani, 1998). International management writers commonly advocate collaboration between researchers from different countries, each researcher possessing the requisite knowledge of his or her culture (Douglas & Craig, 1983).…”

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Researching “Back Home”

Karra

Phillips

2007

Organizational Research Methods

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The challenges facing international management researchers conducting research in foreign contexts are increasingly well understood. However, for a growing group of researchers, the problem is very different: Rather than being foreign researchers researching in an unfamiliar context, they are insiders conducting research in their own cultural context for publication in international journals. In this article, the authors draw on their own experiences and on the literature on autoethnography to illustrate the strengths and challenges of researching "back home." In particular, they argue that autoethnographic approaches have four important strengthsease of access, reduced resource requirements, ease of establishing trust and rapport, and reduced problems with translation-but at the same time pose three important challengeslack of critical distance, role conflict, and the limits of serendipity.Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.- Hall (1959, p. 53) The challenge of researching across cultures has received considerable attention in the international management literature (e.g., N. focused on a range of issues encountered by researchers as they work to solve difficult problems of linguistic and cultural translation faced when carrying out research projects in unfamiliar cultural contexts. Although effective solutions remain largely elusive (Easterby-Smith & Malina, 1999), writers have identified a number of the most vexing problems and begun to develop at least partial solutions for successfully carrying out international management research across cultures.But although the problem of being a foreign researcher researching in an unfamiliar context remains the central methodological issue in international management research, for a growing group of researchers the problem is quite different. For these researchers, the problem 541

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“…The issues inherent in team-based research are directly addressed in a 1998 special issue of the Journal of Managerial Psychology. Here, models of effective research teams are provided (Flory, 1998;Nason and Pillutla, 1998;Teagarden, 1998), various perspectives on how such teams can operate successfully are offered (Hoogendoorn, 1998;Müller, 1998;Turati et al, 1998), and the challenges for those teams which operate internationally are discussed (Bournois and Chevalier, 1998). The authors of the last article comment on the particular challenge of 'dealing with difference' (in terms of team members), commenting that 'the management of such projects boils down to monitoring both differentiation and integration' (p. 212).…”

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“…While Gersick's research was with project teams (not with research teams per se), it may be argued that academic research teams are most similar to 'task teams' (and/or project teams), in that they are 'a group of people brought together specifically to complete a specific assignment in a limited time' (O'Connor et al, 2003: 358). This comment is echoed by Turati et al (1998) who focus on what they call 'academic international research projects' which they define as 'a group of researchers, affiliated with organizations, who have joined together for a common purpose and who interface to "leverage" the collective intelligence, skills, and resources of the members in an intellectual joint venture ' (pp. 188-9).…”

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Crossing fields: the case of a multi-disciplinary research team

Massey¹,

Alpass²,

Flett³

et al. 2006

Qualitative Research

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There are increasing opportunities for researchers to work in multi-disciplinary research teams; however, the extensive literature on research practice barely refers to the challenges inherent in this approach. The article describes the experience of a multi-disciplinary team which was engaged in investigating the nature of technological learning in relation to productivity improvement in the dairy farming industry in New Zealand. The largely qualitative, multi-method approach taken to the project by the team is described, and the description supplemented by reflection on the factors that led to the key decisions in the research design process, and the consequences of these decisions.

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Antecedents of co‐ordination in academic international project research

Cited by 12 publications

References 15 publications

European Human Resource Management: Researching Developments over Time

European Human Resource Management: Researching Developments over Time

Researching “Back Home”

Crossing fields: the case of a multi-disciplinary research team

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