Effects of R & D implementation on the performance of publicly funded research in sultan qaboos university
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kakabadse, Andrew P. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Pilbeam, Colin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Al Hosni, Fahad | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-01-04T15:05:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-01-04T15:05:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Models of R&D account for technical, technological and administrative factors of R&D implementation but underestimate the influence of behavioural and political factors such as power and conflict. They assume that R&D organisation is “well-insulated” from partisan, emotions, political reactions and contextual factors and that decision makers are rational and decisions are taken to best fit the content of R&D programme. The present study explores the effects of rational and irrational factors in the R&D implementation process on the performance of publicly funded research projects in universities. It uses realist and qualitative exploratory semi-structured interviews with 22 active researchers in Sultan Qaboos University provides “depth and detail” of the complexities of R&D implementation effects on its performance. The study discovers 18 measures of success of academic research and 30 effects of R&D implementation of the performance of publicly funded research.The study concludes that the iterative, non-linear and processual nature of R&D implementation is a continuous dynamic system. R&D success builds up the capacity for future success whilst failures decrease the chances of future successes. The integrated effects of implementation (IEI) influence R&D performance through technical and administrative capability of the R&D organisation as well as through behaviours of organisation members. These include leaders’ behaviours, conflict and political skills within individuals. Both success dynamism and IEI suggest contextualism implementation of R&D. | en_UK |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/6829 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_UK |
| dc.publisher | Cranfield University | en_UK |
| dc.rights | © Cranfield University 2010. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright owner. | en_UK |
| dc.subject | R&D success | en_UK |
| dc.subject | performance measurement | en_UK |
| dc.subject | university research | en_UK |
| dc.subject | leadership | en_UK |
| dc.subject | organisational behaviour | en_UK |
| dc.subject | Higher Education | en_UK |
| dc.title | Effects of R & D implementation on the performance of publicly funded research in sultan qaboos university | en_UK |
| dc.type | Thesis or dissertation | en_UK |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en_UK |
| dc.type.qualificationname | PhD | en_UK |