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International Research Management

Philip H. Birnbaum, Frederick A. Rossini, and Donald R. Baldwin

Abstract

This book presents a group of papers that describe the preconditions, processes, and outcomes of interdisciplinary research projects from the United States, Canada, Israel, Japan, Brazil, the German Democratic Republic, and Romania. The papers describe the problems and approaches to successfully managing projects in government, private firms, and universities. The book also includes a comprehensive, annotated bibliography.

Keywords: research management, interdisciplinary research, United States, Canada, Israel, Japan, Brazil, Democratic Republic, Romania

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 1990 Print ISBN-13: 9780195062526
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195062526.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Philip H. Birnbaum, editor
University of Southern California

Frederick A. Rossini, editor
Georgia Institute of Technology

Donald R. Baldwin, editor
University of Washington

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

About Interstudy

Overview and Perspective

Philip H. Birnbaum-More, Frederick A. Rossini, and Donald R. Baldwin

I Preconditions and Processes

1 Preconditions for Interdisciplinary Research

Julie Thompson Klein, and Alan L. Porter

2 The Interdisciplinary Process

Julie Thompson Klein

3 Resilience of Interdisciplinary Research Organizations: Case Studies of Preconditions and Life-Cycle Patterns

Ilan Vertinsky, and Patricia Vertinsky

4 Long-Wave Patterns Influence Research Attitudes

Israel Dror

II Interdisciplinary Research in North America

5 Developing a Plant Health-Care Initiative in U.S. Agriculture

John M. Barnes

6 Interdisciplinary Research in a High-Technology Company

W. T. Sackett

7 A Prognosticative Approach to Conflict Management in University Interdisciplinary Research

Alok K. Chakrabarti, and Richard W. Schneider

8 The Impact of Interdisciplinary Activities on Departmental Disciplines

Martha Garrett Russell

9 American Science, Academic Organization, and Interdisciplinary Research

Robert S. Friedman, and Renee C. Friedman

10 Georgia Tech Research Institute: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Donald J. Grace, and Frederick A. Rossini

11 The Development of an Interdisciplinary University-Based Microelectronics Research Center

John W. Hooper, and Frederick A. Rossini

III Interdisciplinary Research in Brazil

12 Organization Design for Interdisciplinary Research: Conflicts and Performance

Eduardo Vasconcellos

13 Managing Conflicts Between Line and Staff in Interdisciplinary R&D Projects

Eduardo Vasconcellos

IV Interdisciplinary Research in Eastern Europe

14 Relationship of Interdisciplinarity to Cooperative Behavior

Heinrich Parthey

15 Interdisciplinarity and Futures Research

Ana Marie Sandi

V Interdisciplinary Research in Japan

16 R&D Management in Japanese Companies

Masahiro Ikejima

End Matter

Summary

Bibliography

Participants

Index