Collaborative Research: MOD: Modeling Productive Climates for Virtual Research Collaborations

合作研究：MOD：为虚拟研究合作建模生产力气候

基本信息

批准号：
0830306
负责人：
Sara Kiesler
金额：
$ 20万
依托单位：
Carnegie-Mellon University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2008
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2008-10-01 至 2012-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0830306&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research MOD Modeling Productive

项目摘要

An important kind of virtual research organization is the project-based research collaboration involving researchers from different institutions. The project provides a scientific grounding for managing, evaluating, and predicting success in distributed research collaborations. Collaborative success depends on whether investigators have a productive climate: a social and technical context that supports performance and innovation. In a productive climate, collaborators perceive they have resources to collaborate effectively; they see a link between their achievements and rewards they receive; they experience their group as flexible and welcoming of innovative approaches; and they note minimal conflict between the collaboration and their career and their institution's values. The research defines and measures a productive climate of distributed research collaborations and focuses on a key antecedent of a productive climate: the institutional environment of the collaboration. One example of this kind of environment is whether the institutions that employ the investigators see exceptional value in interdisciplinary research and have developed practices that support this kind of research.The investigators study the institutional environments of a sample of projects that were supported by the National Science Foundation. The intellectual contribution of this work includes documenting the importance of a productive climate for distributed research collaboration, and tracing the linkages among productive climate and the institutional environments of these collaborations. This analysis led to better metrics for measuring and predicting performance and innovation in collaborations. Identifying the institutional factors that predict the productive climate and outcomes of research collaborations also permit the development of models to predict which collaborations are likely to be successful. The broader impacts of this project are to inform university, agency, and regulatory practices and policies for science and new forms of interdisciplinary, distributed research collaboration.

一种重要的虚拟研究组织是基于项目的研究合作，涉及来自不同机构的研究人员。该项目为管理，评估和预测分布式研究合作的成功提供了科学基础。协作成功取决于调查人员是否具有富有成效的气候：支持绩效和创新的社会和技术环境。在有效的气候下，合作者认为他们有资源有效地合作；他们看到了他们的成就与获得的奖励之间的联系；他们将自己的团队视为灵活而热情的创新方法；他们注意到合作与职业生涯与机构价值观之间的最小冲突。该研究定义并衡量了分布式研究合作的生产氛围，并着重于生产性气候的关键先例：合作的制度环境。这种环境的一个例子是，雇用研究人员的机构是否在跨学科研究中看到了非凡的价值，并开发了支持这类研究的实践。研究人员研究了国家科学基金会支持的项目样本的机构环境。这项工作的智力贡献包括记录生产氛围对于分布式研究合作的重要性，并追踪生产性气候和这些合作的机构环境之间的联系。该分析导致了更好的指标，以衡量和预测合作中的绩效和创新。确定预测生产性气候和研究合作成果的制度因素也使模型的发展可以预测哪些合作可能会成功。该项目的更广泛影响是为大学，代理机构和法规实践以及有关科学和新形式的跨学科，分布式研究合作的政策提供信息。