The Gradual Transformation of the Polish Public Science System

Heinecke, Steffi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153260

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“…Overall, the changes in resource allocation to the Polish HEIs over the 30-year-period tended to be incremental and led to the gradual evolution from political-based allocation to market-based and then the competitive allocation of teaching and research funds (Tahar and Boutellier, 2013). Our findings are coherent with other study findings regarding Polish and foreign universities (Aagard, 2017;Heinecke, 2016, Parker, 2011Parker, 2012;Parker, 2013).…”

Section: Cemj 73supporting

confidence: 88%

Autonomy Without Accountability in Resource Allocation Reforms: Blending Old and New Logic in Universities

Górska¹,

Pikos²,

Dobija³

et al. 2022

CEMJ

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Purpose: The article explores changes in the institutional autonomy and accountability resulting from university reforms carried out over a period of 28 years under the influence of the traditional public administration and new public management logic. Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative study uses rich empirical material, which includes archival documents as well as 16 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with deans, professors, representatives of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and HEI experts. For analysis, we used the general inductive approach. Institutional logic has been used as the theoretical framework to analyze changes in resource allocation, autonomy, and accountability of HEIs. Findings: Following the idea of reform as routine, our study shows that the implemented reforms have proven ineffective in comprehensively increasing the autonomy and accountability of HEIs and that they tend to turn into a routine. However, over the past 30 years, a certain increase in autonomy, combined with accountability shifts from input toward output control mechanisms can be observed. An important finding of this research is also the limited understanding of the concept of accountability by the top management of universities and by the ministry’s representatives. Moreover, this illustrates that accountability is understood only as a formal obligation to report to the funding agency and is treated as an integral part of the Polish HE landscape, increasing from reform to reform. Originality/Value: This article explores the evolution of the Polish state funding systems of universities and analyzes the development from a stable traditional funding model – that was in place before the collapse of the communist system – to a complex multi-tier system and to recent attempts at reforming the HE field, aimed at increasing the autonomy and accountability of Polish universities. More efforts should be made by policymakers to create a sustainable balance between autonomy and accountability in the HE field.

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Section: Cemj 73supporting

confidence: 88%

Autonomy Without Accountability in Resource Allocation Reforms: Blending Old and New Logic in Universities

Górska¹,

Pikos²,

Dobija³

et al. 2022

CEMJ

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“…The transition from this communist legacy to a democratic state influenced science funding and organisation from 1989 (Heinecke 2016(Heinecke , 2017Jablecka 1995), after which the new socio-economic situation shaped new roles for higher education and science systems. On one hand, the higher education system evolved from an elite into an egalitarian system by, among others, strong privatisation of the system, which included boosting the 403,824 students in 1990 to 1,953,832 students in 2005 (Kwiek and Szadkowski 2018).…”

Section: Starting Point and The Context: Democratic Transition And Tementioning

confidence: 99%

Examining how country-level science policy shapes publication patterns: the case of Poland

Korytkowski

Kulczycki

2019

Scientometrics

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This country case study describes how science policy instruments are designed to shape publication patterns and identifies the changes in researchers' productivity that can be observed over the period 2009-2016 in Poland by analysing data on 452,277 publications submitted to the country's national research evaluation system. Our analysis reveals that policy instruments used in the country's national research evaluation system, academic promotion procedures and competitive grants have increased the number of articles with an impact factor without compromising publication quality, as measured by a bibliometric indicator. Our findings highlight that only clear and stable incentives have influenced researchers' publications. Therefore, patterns in scholarly book publications-for which regulations were not clear and stable-have not been significantly shaped by science policy.

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“…Obviously, the promotion of the EPC model facing the existence of path dependence II. Path dependence theory holds that once the path dependence of the institutional change is formed, it is difficult to be broken from the inside, and the institutional change cannot be effectively realized, even if the institutional theory after a reform is superior and more efficient [ 15 ].…”

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How to alter path dependency and promote the use of EPC model in public projects of China?

Wang

Liu

2022

PLoS ONE

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The key to promoting the EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) model in China’s public construction projects is to alter the path dependence of a project owner’s choice of project delivery model (PDM). This study uses evolutionary game theory to discuss the mechanism of government incentives as an external motivation to alter path dependence in the PDM. In addition, a cellular automata simulation to examine the influence of various government incentives on the project owner’s choice. The results show that the combination of subsidies and penalties can produce the best incentive. Subsidies are more effective at promoting PDM institutional change, whereas penalties are more effective at preventing PDM institutional change from anti-recession effects. Based on our results, we propose that the Chinese government should take active subsidy measures at the initial stage of EPC promotion, and adopt a dynamic incentive strategy of continuously reducing subsidies and increasing penalties according to the improvement of the development degree of EPC model.

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The Gradual Transformation of the Polish Public Science System

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Autonomy Without Accountability in Resource Allocation Reforms: Blending Old and New Logic in Universities

Autonomy Without Accountability in Resource Allocation Reforms: Blending Old and New Logic in Universities

Examining how country-level science policy shapes publication patterns: the case of Poland

How to alter path dependency and promote the use of EPC model in public projects of China?

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